Tag: chemistry

November 10, 2013 0

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out

By News Desk

Tweet Our water district goes to Washington DC twice annually to either look for help or avoid regulatory problems with our environmental restoration, flood control, and water supply projects, and my turn was this last week. The team had 21 meetings in 2.5 business days, occasionally splitting up.

November 8, 2013 0

The Better Tasting Jellyfish Appetizer

By News Desk

Tweet Among the things that the bunnies will have to adapt to is the better tasting jellyfish appetizer.  Served everywhere in China, the best anyone has to say for it is that it is tasteless, somewhat like eating boiled rubber bands, but not so flavorful and twice as chewy.  Dano brings the bad news to Rabett Run

October 27, 2013 0

Nearby (and especially distant) mountains don’t prevent sea level rise/saltwater intrusion problems

By News Desk

Tweet Per Eli’s post below , Judith Curry’s put up a silly guest post by Rud Istvan saying that climate change poses no water supply problems to Caribbean islands. There are too many fish to shoot as Istvan gishgallops them in the barrel, so let’s talk first about where he’s right:  if nobody lived on these islands, then there’d be no water supply problems on those islands for those people who don’t live there.

October 24, 2013 0

Sympathy for those lost in the shuffle

By News Desk

Tweet Interesting editorial in the Mercury News over the "resource reshuffling" issue and California’s effort to control climate change. And attention, carbon tax fans, you’re not safe from this issue either