Monthly Archives: September 2009

Water in the sky, rocks underfoot, and a little stream to carry it all

The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
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Categories: by Anne, outcrops, photos

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

Since there was a positive response from my first attempt, I’ll make this a regular weekend thing. I’m still working on the format. Apologies for the pirate-speak in some of the more recent tweets, but traditions must be upheld lest … Continue reading

Categories: links

Chris takes on geo-engineering on SeedMagazine.com

At SEEDMAGAZINE.com, Chris offers up a geologist’s perspective on the latest assessment of geo-engineering schemes to use technology to deter on-going climate change.
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Categories: by Anne, climate science, links

Some opinions on geoengineering

including mine.
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Categories: climate science, environment, links

Anthropogenic biomes

“Anthropogenic biomes are in many ways a more accurate description of broad ecological patterns within the current terrestrial biosphere than are conventional biome systems that describe vegetation patterns based on variations in climate and geology.”
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Categories: environment