El Niño and La Niña

Aquatic creatures mix ocean water

Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides....

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Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

By Gerald Traufetter Spielgel November 22, 2009 Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a...

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When the wind won't blow

Catch the wind, see us spin Sail away, leave today Way up high in the sky But the wind won't blow, we really shouldn't go It only goes to show... - - Led Zeppelin, "What is and What Should Never Be" ***** LA Times today:...

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The FM Sections 2009 Winter 'WDYTOE'

W hat D o Y ou T hink O f E veryone Firstly, the list: Spoiler: ***Jonny*** Adramelch Ant Being Unique Ben Big Blue Toaster Bulfin CJ Dantastic DeKnegt Dirty Leeds El Nino Eviscerated Jobby forrest gump Forza Hellas gallas99...

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Random Sunday Notes (BigCityLib Strikes Back)

1) Its November 22 and I'm wearing sandals. Thank you El Nino. Pity about all those droughts in Australia.2) Longos has the best samples of any major grocery store. When my wife and I shop there on Sunday's we call it going out...

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Resorts leap into new ski season

BY MAGGIE O'NEILL • moneill@rgj.com • November 21, 2009 It’s not every day that a skier has a chance to ride with a pro, such as 1998 Olympic gold-medal winner Jonny Moseley. Boreal Mountain Resort put in $1.2 million of...

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Colorado River drops to a record-low flow

SUMMIT COUNTY - The latest predictions for a mid-winter dry spell may cause some headaches for Colorado water managers as they try to juggle supplies to maintain stream flows and fill reservoirs. The National Oceanic and...

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El Niño Resurgence

“El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Recent measurements of sea level height from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission satellite showed that a strong wave of warm water, known as a Kelvin wave, had spread from the...

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Benitez: Fernando Torres Could Miss Everton Clash

'El Nino' still struggling for fitness. is struggling to recover from a groin injury to make a return in time for the Merseyside derby, whilst indicating the Spain international is almost certain to miss the all-important...

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Let’s look at one of the illegally hacked emails in more detail — the one by NCAR’s Kevin...

The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails...

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