Afghanistan avalanches kill at least 165 - Scores still feared buried
Rescuers continue digging through snow to reach hundreds of people still trapped in their vehicles.
Enviros challenge first large-scale wind farm in national forest | JunkScience.com
“The environmentalists also worry that the project would set a bad precedent for forests across the nation.”
Severe drought (or Dust-Bowlification) “is the most pressing problem caused by climate change.”
Flashback: Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?
Desertification, drought, and despair—that's what global warming has in store for much of Africa. Or so we hear.
Emerging evidence is painting a very different scenario, one in which rising temperatures could benefit millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent.
Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.
If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.
But in an e-mail exchange with Dick Kerr today, Kerr wrote to JunkScience.com:
Steve, yes, I must confess. They just had a paper out on this phenomenon, but I needed a convenient label to write the news story. So I followed meteorological naming conventions and suggested AMO. That was okay with Mike for a news story. Subsequent papers in the literature also found it handy but had no source but my story in Science, so they would cite me. Looks fine because such a citation appears to be a scientific paper in a prestigious journal. “Oscillation” has since begun to fall out of favor because it conveys too strong a sense of regularity. We’ll see how long AMO hangs in there.
Adding credibility to Kerr’s version is the below post on Mann’s RealClimate web site.
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