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Okay, so people make fun of the bad forecasts of economists.  Fair enough.  But economists are trying to forecast actions of sentient, pros...

Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes  Kiju Jung et al.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 June 2014, P...

Because of the ice storm on eastern seaboard, someone sent me this.   I was struck by several things. 1.  VI stole the "Under Pr...

Robin & I first moved to Norman shortly after the Moore tornado of 1999 which was a brutal storm. Now we've seen the Moore tornado o...

FEMA offices closed, due to weather. Nod to Angry Alex.

I'll be in Chile for more than a month. El otoño there in the southern cone. My sincere thanks to JPC for setting this up.

An article about how hard the folks out on the sandbar ...er ... barrier islands of NC have it. Best quote: "this is the price you ...

We are getting a fo-sho, straight from Oklahomo, oh-no ice storm here in Raleigh. To paraphrase Joe Schultz: s*&t-f%$k.

Baby, it's cold outside. Compare that view to just a few days ago... The taller mountains are especially snowy. People keep saying th...

Wow people, that was a close one! Mrs. Angus, Mr. Tooty, and myself spent late yesterday afternoon and early evening hanging out in our bed...

Huge Aftershocks in Chile Tsunami warnings....

Here is a picture of the house of a friend in Montana: All right, no. That is the house of Anonyman, in the DC suburbs. Yikes. More snow...

Montesquieu famously had this amazingly racist explanation of the different "characters" of nations. And it was based on....weath...

on Waxman-Markey and the implications of climate change for rich and poor countries. 1. On Waxman-Markey: "my only objection to Waxman-...

I had scheduled a Bastille Day celebration, a mid-summer American style bbq to share the celebration of our French bretheren and sisteren. ...

This is buggin' me. It is going to 4 deg C tonight, and 2 deg C tomorrow night. That's 36 F for tomorrow eve. It's not like ...