Bridges That Build Themselves The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge.  It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years…

"From Disaster to Catastrophe -- What's Obama's Endgame In the Gulf?"  Fox News headline, July 15.  The headline suggests that there is a difference between a disaster and a catastrophe,…

Arctic Heroes #2 - North Pole 1 The first ever weather station on an ice floe was North Pole 1, set up May 21 1937 by a team of Russians and manned by four heroes.  The record of that event…

What Price Freedom Of Information ? There has been a great deal of fuss over a few emails and the topic of freedom of information in relation to the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit…

Rajasthan Patrika has reported that there is water for 3 to 4 days left for Jaipur and Ajmer. What will happen then. Will Jaipur and Ajmer survive for another 50 years or 5 years if no water is left…

MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists - #4 This is part #4 of a brief explanation of the NASA/GSFC MODIS Rapid Response System - Rapidfire - together with a Howto for citizen scientists.  The…

Understanding Ice Ice is just frozen water, right? Wrong! Now you will perhaps inquire with astonishment how it is possible that ice, which is the most brittle and fragile of substances, can flow in…

Satellites are being used to look at practically everything you can think of. Well, maybe not. But if you take a single subject like ice, it is amazing how many ways you can look at it with a…

Arctic Ice July 2010 In about a week the National Snow and Ice Data Center - NSIDC - will be publishing its analysis of June's sea ice.  I expect them to report another record loss of sea ice.…