What’s in a Name?
This one will of necessity be short — duty calls. I recently published a post regarding the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The subject continues to prompt countless articles that run the full gamut:...
Category: Environmental
Flash Floods, Slot Canyons, and Kinetic Energy
The recent episodes of flooding in Nepal and the Grand Canyon are horrific, to say the least. My heart goes out to those affected at both locations. Each of the floods were the result...
El Niño Southern Oscillation
I’m probably going to get most of this wrong, but since even the guys driving the Cray supercomputers don’t really understand the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and what makes it tick, I guess...
Bats
Thanks to the nature of my job as an exploration field geologist, I have spent a lot of time underground. Again, because of the nature of my job, most of my time underground has...
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
I pulled into the post office a couple days ago and there it was — yet another square-backed vehicle with a dirty rear window. The driver was just getting out (she was from California...
Cyclospora and Climate Change?
Regular followers of this blog know of my wholehearted acceptance of Climate Change, and that — IMHO — it poses an existential threat to our established and very comfy way of life (click here...
Primary v. Secondary Industry
There is a lot being said these days about bringing back our nation’s lost glory. This causes me indigestion on multiple levels. Fortunately, two of them are easy to reconcile: I cannot agree with...
Deep Sea Mining: Part 2
Before we jump into the deep water, a couple possibly irrelevant tangents: I love the earth, am fascinated by its processes, and wish it a long and happy life. Anybody who has opened their...
Thermosteric Sea Level Rise
The SciTechDaily website had an interesting article (28 May 2026) that summarized an international study about how climate change is affecting global sea level rise. The team included researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric...
Chernobyl and Evolutionary Change
It was early in the 1960s and my family had recently relocated from Nebraska to the Los Angeles Basin. Those were scary times! The Soviets were threatening to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, and...
