Hot, Flat, Crowded -thoughts
I recently finished Thomas Friedman‘s latest book: Hot, Flat, Crowded and I loved it. He does a great job describing the major problems facing our increasingly hot, flat, and crowded world, which include booming population growth, more energy demand, a changing climate, and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss. (Rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss is a topic covered […]
Weatherbill…a market for wacky weather protection
One of my favorite blogs, Paul Kedrosky’s Infections Greed has a post today on a new company called WeatherBill.WeatherBill is: In effect, a tool to allow people to create their own weather-related short- and long-term insurance policies — and it will appeal to a broad swath of companies whose business are weather-affected. It appears to […]
First snow!
This morning I spotted my first snowflake of the year while walking through Washington Sq. Park. Others spotted it, and recorded it. The National Weather Service recorded the snow officially at 9:55am in Central Park, making this the latest occurrence of the first winter snowfall in the park since records began more than 100 years […]
Winter Warmth…
NYC tied the all-time warmest January temp ever yesterday with a high of 72, a full 34 degrees higher than the norm. NYC has only hit 70 in jan 3 times since 1869. Just crazy! Winter Warmth…
More on unusual warmth
As you may be able to tell by now, I’m very interested in weather and climate change and somewhat alarmed by this winter’s warmth. (take a look at the 5 day for new york: ) In a post over on Wunder Blog, Dr. Jeff Master’s went into further detail on just how unusual this widespread […]