Chris, who holds the keys to the magic scripts that make our Twitter link fest something less than an all-day HTML formatting slog, is traveling at the moment. So forgive the leaner linky goodness this week, and savor the best 9 things I linked to on Twitter in the last 7 days.
Blogs in Motion
A new hydro- blog with a great name: Hydro-Ecstatic! Check it out: http://shendri.wordpress.com/ (h/t @callanbentley)
Water
Humoring me with some pictures of flooding in my native neck of the woods, planelight has posted pictures of flooding of the Minnesota River around St. Peter: http://lifeinplanelight.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/flooding-of-the-minnesota-river-around-st-peter/ [My inspection of the USGS gage records at ~10 pm Saturday evening suggests that smaller streams have crested, but big rivers like the Minnesota and Mississippi are still rising.]
Through the Sandglass has fantastically awesome post about Indus River, flooding & climate science http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/2010/09/a-climate-science-recommendation-the-pakistan-floods-and-of-course-sand.html (via @clasticdetritus)[This is the sort of post I meant to write about the Pakistan floods but never managed to pull together. Now Michael Welland has done a much better job of it.]
A nice exploration of two new papers on increasing rates of global groundwater depletion & its relationship to food exports http://blog.agu.org/geospace/2010/09/23/dangerous-dependence-on-virtual-water-deepens/
New blog post at Ordinary High Water Mark: Culverts 1: A case of the F***its Be sure to check out that picture at the top before you read the text! http://ohwm.blogspot.com/2010/09/culverts-1-case-of-fits.html
A powerful story of poverty, politics, and lack of access to clean water in Lima at Wandering Gaia: http://wanderinggaia.com/2010/09/20/the-business-of-migration/
Climate
READ THIS Excellent introduction to climate feedbacks from RealClimate (via @AGW_Prof): http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/09/introduction-to-feedbacks/
Journalism professor Jay Rosen on why climate science reporting is so bad – http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/20/jay-rosen-on-climate-science-reporting-journalism/ (via @geographile @ClimaTweets)
Volcanoes
Great post at: Magma Cum Laude Distinguishing deposits from andesitic eruptions http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2010/09/distinguishing-deposits-from-andesitic.html
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.