Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC)
If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report didn't scare you, a study in the journal Nature should do the trick. It may have a dull title ("The projected timing of climate…
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A bit of humanity touches a comet, July 4, 2005
The small team still running Deep Impact, in orbit for going on nine years, on Aug. 8 lost touch with the spacecraft. Deep Impact smacked the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day 2005 and went on to swing by a second comet, Hartley 2, and then…
This body of water does not typically exist.
The worst of this insane tropical storm is happening parts north - Boulder, Lyons and environs. There geographic verticality is guiding once-in-a-generation (rarer yet, actually) rains into tight channels that are shooting stream flow numbers into the 10x-50x ranges and doubling, tripling, quadrupling typical gauge height (this USGS…
Al Bartlett in January 2005. Photo by Marty Caivano/Daily Camera
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its environmental and social impacts, died over the weekend. Brittany Anas,…
Kevin Nicol, a research assistant and D1 cyclist, crunches numbers as Robert Jones warms up for his testing in the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center's Human Performance Laboratory. Nicol, 46, ascribes to CU Prof Inigo San Millan's metabolic fitness philosophy. Nicol can cycle up Golden's four-mile, 1,250-foot Lookout Mountain in 17 minutes flat, 10 minutes…