What’s a moving picture worth?
The ability to explain science to a lay audience is extraordinary. It is hard, and it can be made even…
It is Spanish for “the Niño”
The latest Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS advisory is out, and it looks like we are heading towards El Niño – this…
Tragic
This one hits hard. A 2015 GC PhD, Derrick Griffith, was killed in the Amtrak train derailment on Tuesday. Dr….
Roman warm period and the dark ages cold period
I’ve been reading the classic Climate, History and the Modern World by H.H. Lamb, and really enjoying the take on…
The Hedgehog and the Fox
πόλλ’ οἶδ’ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ’ ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα (“the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”) –…
Putting Climate in Context
This year’s Climate in Context conference at the Grad Center was a rousing success. Nearly twice as many participants and…
Climate in Context Two
I’ve been involved with the organization of the Climate in Context at the Graduate Center, CUNY 2015 Conference (and I…
Gravity always wins…
When I teach my classes, I try very hard to make my course intellectually rigorous, intellectually stimulating, and relevant to…
Route 23
Whenever I go by Route 23 while driving on 87N, I want to stop. The Route 23 outcrop has a…
Post-AGU Update
It has been a rather hectic few weeks. It is Fellowship season, job application season, it was the end of…
Luminaries
I just returned home from The Tropics Rule conference up at LDEO, celebrating Mark Cane’s contributions to climatology and highlighting…
How far…
Not only did I find a link to here when looking on Google for something else (how very meta), but…
