Posts treating: "Watch"
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
I saw this video a few weeks back on The Landslide Blog, and it's also been posted on GeoEngineer.org. It's well worth the watch. It's one of the scariest debris flow videos I've seen. Some hikers are crossing a channel cut naturally through old debris flow deposits, like a hiker bowling alley. Fortunately the guides hear it coming and everyone manages to get out of the channel before the latest debris flow roars through! [Source: YouTube via Dave's Landslide Blog. Image:
I just realized that with the lost blogs of the first week, I also lost my tag photo, and sadly me with Safety Penguin was someone else's photo. But this is a good one of me in my office here on the JR. Today the Chief Scientists gave an excellent overview to all the crew of just exactly what we're looking for on this expedition and why.
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Italian prog rockers The Watch are the Genesis continuation we always wanted. Officially endorsed by ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, they do amazing covers of classic era Genesis songs. Their original albums, while having their own distinct flavour, are tantamount to the Genesis albums that never existed but that totally should have. Imagine, if you will,
Really NBC? Really?? Did you forget about the SPC Enhanced risk outlook from two days before. Did you forget about the Tornado Watch hours before, and the numerous tornado warnings minutes before?? Really?? You owe an apology to the NWS and the broadcast mets in that area who made sure there WAS a warning. Really. You do. The map below was issued by the Storm Prediction Center about 36 HOURS
My friend Bud Ward over a Yale Climate Connections tipped me to the video below. Something well worth a watch, and it would make a great topic of discussion in a high school/college political science class. I’m not talking about debating the science though, If a student doubt the science, tell them about how peer review works, and warn them about being deceived by conspiracy theory promoters. Kerry Emanuel is
I really love the fact that physicists are sharing physics so widely online. There are some fabulous videos that will blow your mind, and teachers, you really consider spending some time in class watching them. So, with that in mind, here are some of my fave videos. Being a geek, I even knew the one about tides, but I can tell you that many meteorologists do not! I still remember
When we venture into the Arctic for research for most of us there is the lingering hope that a polar bear will appear on our watch; at least as long as we are safely outside of its
There is a video on Youtube that apparently shows the moment that the Banjarnegara district landslide in Indonesia occurred, killing over 100
“For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.” — Psalm 90:4 (ESV) Christians disagree with one another about the age of the Earth and the universe. Some Christians insist that the only possible way to interpret the opening chapters of Genesis
This is a pretty amazing video from NASA Goddard. Worth a
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Aloha,The shutdown is getting more and more depressing.So, I wanted to share a talk given at National Geographic Live by one of my amazing former professors. So please give Erin Pettit 15 minutes of your attention and give it a watch!I am so fortunate to have had amazing professors like Erin
When we pushed the rafts off the beach at Lee's Ferry, my normal sense of time disappeared. For my journey into the Great Unknown, I didn't have a watch, and my smartphone was safely ensconced in one of the vehicles. My laptop never made it beyond Phoenix. Time took on a new meaning.
There was river time. That one is controlled by the sun, mostly. There was twilight and dusk, which
When you look at the warming over North America in the past century, the southeast USA stands out as an exception. In some cases it has actually cooled. Meteorologist Gene Norman told me about a piece he did about an experiment underway in Central Alabama that’s trying to find out why. The study is called SOAS which stands for Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study. It’s worth a watch and a
Ask ten people in America if they know the difference between a watch and a warning, and you will likely find that many do not. I’m asked this question very frequently, and this in spite of the fact that we forecasters have been talking about it for years. Here in America, we’ve used the same system for five decades now, and perhaps it is time to look at improving it.
My friend Su Ostro at the Weather Channel, and Dr. Jennifer Francis at Rutgers joined author/journalist Chris Mooney at a Climate Desk Live/WWF event last week. The talk is well worth a watch. I’ve mentioned Dr. Francis and her research frequently here, and here is a chance to see whay her research is getting so much attention among forecasters. Stu is a fellow forecaster, and has a perspective like mine that is rooted in
On May 2, after nightfall shut down photosynthesis for the day in Hawaii, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere touched 400 parts-per-million there for the first time in at least 800,000 years. Near the summit of volcanic Mauna Loa—where a member of the Keeling family has kept watch since 1958—sensors measured this record through sunrise the following day. Levels have continued to
“As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought the wood began to move.” - Messenger, Shakespeare’s Macbeth The simple story of the last 2.5 million years of vegetation response to climate change could be summed up like this: temperature goes up and down, plants go back and forth. We’ve … Continue reading
It seems so obvious: at the beginning of a project set up a project schedule; monitor project progress against the schedule; and adjust the schedule, the project team, or the scope of works if things go wrong. Yet surprisingly this is often not done. Reason for not doing this include: inability to set up a schedule;
Dr. Richard Alley is one of those few scientists who really connect with the public. He was asked to do the Bjerknes lecture at the AGU meeting in San Francisco last month and it’s an hour of good plain-spoken climate science from a real expert in paleoclimate. I did enjoy the loony letter he shared at the beginning of the lecture. Anyone who works in the science field gets these (I have