There was a certain amount of cowering away from >100 F temperatures by team Allochthonous this week, which means that (a) the link-fest is a bit lighter than usual, and (b) there may be a slight focus on things related to excessive heat. Just saying…
Volcanoes
- The past is the key to present landscapes: “in Britain you do not walk on volcanoes, you walk within them.” Grandiose, but enjoyable, writing on how volcanoes shaped Britain’s landscape
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18674655 - @volcan01010‘s new paper Eyjafjallaju00f6kull tephra deposited >3000 km from Iceland, extending known deposition range
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2011JB008904.shtml
(via @volcanofile)
Earthquakes
- New parliamentary report on Fukushima slams TEPCO’ s head-in-the-sand attitude about tsunami risks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-05/japan-declares-fukushima-crisis-man-made/4112734
(via @kejames)
Wildfires in the Western US
- Sobering video of aftermath of Colorado wildfires: a family view their ruined home, a fire chief denies reality.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/07/waldo-canyon-colorado-aftermath-climate - Unrestricted development fuels wildfire hazard: Today, one of every four Colorado homes is in a high-risk fire zone.
http://www.kunc.org/post/red-zone-policies-put-more-coloradans-risk - % of stories about US wildfires that discuss climate change as a contributing factor is vanishingly small
http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/07/03/study-media-avoid-climate-context-in-wildfire-c/186921
(via @gravelbar) - What does the Waldo Canyon fire burn scar look like from space? Huge!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7516281352/in/photostream/lightbox/
(via @NASA_GoddardPix)
(Paleo)climate
- The root of all our problems: “climate change is almost always too distal a cause to make a visceral impression on us.”
http://grist.org/climate-change/did-climate-change-cause-the-colorado-wildfires/ - This horrible US summer is exactly what we expect from global warming, say climate scientists
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2012/07/03/this_us_summer_is_what_global_warming_looks_like/?page=full
(via @kate_sheppard) - Not just US, but around the world: “As the climate changes, extreme weather isn’t that extreme any more.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/climate-changes-extreme-weather-us-heatwave
(via @lockwooddewitt) - An eloquent graphical comment on the last few days in the US: Whew!
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/whew/ - Pre-industrial CO2 emissions from land use changes still affecting today’s climate
http://phys.org/news/2012-07-pre-industrial-emissions-temperatures.html - Stunning image of 56 years of tornado tracks across the USA
http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/TornadoTracks_4fbd458d255c5.jpg
(via @geogirldi)
Water
- 144 killed in flash floods in Southern Russia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18751198 - “The Tricky Business of Counting Rain” on why the world-wide decline of rain gages is a real issue for scientists (like Anne)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/do-not-publish-the-tricky-business-of-counting-rain/
(via @gravelbar)
Environmental
- A new ‘oil boom’ has falsified peak oil – at least in the sense that peak will come soon.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/peak-oil-we-we-wrong
(via @lockwooddewitt) - Rise of ‘tight’ oil has certainly helped maintain overall production, but has also ushered in an age of higher prices.
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2012-07-02/peak-denial - Galapagos Monday: World Within Itself (on native vs. endemic vs. introduced species) by @virginiahughes
http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/07/02/galapagos-monday-world-within-itself/
General Geology
- Lots of cool photos of folded and boudinaged granitic dykes from Callan Bentley:
http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2012/07/03/granite-dikes-that-have-been-folded-and-boudinaged/
Interesting Miscellaney
- There was a small amount of excitement in the particle physics field this week: Alex Witze has the details:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341993/title/Higgs_found - Higgs discovery “an enormous triumph for mathematical methods to make predictions for things in the real worldu201d
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341991/title/Essay_Natures_secrets_foretold - Wow: East coast power outages, as seen from outer space:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78445&src=eoa-iotd
(via @jfleck) - Jess Ball is co-convening a session on social media at AGU 2012: Might have to consider submitting something…
http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/?p=2411 - Great interview with the newly-minted Dr. Jacquelyn Gill on the benefits of social media for scientists: research, networking & outreach
http://www.news.wisc.edu/20841 - You should definitely check out this month’s Diversity in Science carnival, in honor of PRIDE! Some great posts.
http://scientopia.org/blogs/gertyz/2012/07/05/its-here-the-dis-pride-carnival/
(via @scicurious) - Important post by @glacialtill: On Being a Gay Scientist and Finding a Sense of Community |
http://glacialtill.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/on-being-a-gay-scientist-and-finding-a-sense-of-community/ - Interesting piece on a “maker’s schedule” versus “manager’s schedule.” Academics in summer live by the maker’s schedule and get stuff done, but too often, during the school year we work on the manager’s schedule.
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.