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August 31, 2008
Category: Hurricanes
There is so much to worry about with this storm...and also, just maybe, a ray of hope. Gustav has not explosively intensified over the Gulf of Mexico loop current, as feared. It is now a 100 knot Category 3...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 5:15 PM • 0 Comments
August 30, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
In November, 2007, a small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a philosopher, and Chris and I - began working to restore science and innovation to America's political dialogue in an initiative called ScienceDebate2008. Within weeks,...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 4:00 PM • 13 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
The latest report is that maximum sustained winds have jumped all the way up to 125 knots. Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Category 5 at some point on Gustav's highly ocean-heat laden journey. I just...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:17 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Miscellaneous
Until then, try to guess what we have to tell you.......
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:33 PM • 4 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
Gustav is now a major hurricane headed toward Louisiana with estimated surface winds of 120 mph. He's expected to make landfall late Monday or early Tuesday. Values of Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential (TCHP) over 80 are often associated with rapid...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:40 AM • 0 Comments
August 29, 2008
Category: Hurricanes
We knew Katrina was coming and now Hurricane Gustav looks set to get uncomfortably close to New Orleans. While models suggest Gustav will just miss the city, Jeff Masters has advised residents to leave given the small chance of a...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 5:44 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Culture
Sarah Palin is McCain's running mate. As I wrote yesterday, with less than two years in office, her nomination undercuts his central criticism of his opponent -- that Obama is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. As a relatively young...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:52 AM • 18 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
In January of 2003, I sat in Joe Kelley's seminar at the University of Maine as he foretold the devastation that was to come to New Orleans. I'd never heard this chilling story before and listened intently as he explained...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:17 AM • 5 Comments
August 28, 2008
Category: Culture
As I watched Obama deliver his acceptance address tonight, I sensed the growing optimism across the nation. And I'm not alone. Andrew Sullivan eloquently describes his speech: It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:09 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Culture
In presidential campaigns, there's a tradition of allowing one's opponent a clear run on the night they accept their party's nomination. This time, McCain plans to air an ad congratulating Obama as he accepts the presidential nomination. Also for several...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 4:34 PM • 11 Comments
Category: Women In Politics
Michelle Obama, as quoted in the NYTimes: I was raised to believe I could do it all, and that was very empowering. Then I got into the work force and realized there was really no support for me to...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:42 AM • 2 Comments
August 27, 2008
Category: Culture
After Bill Clinton brought down the house, John Kerry called McCain a flip-flopper, followed by an impassioned speech from Biden accepting the VP nomination. And then......
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:56 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Culture
"People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power." - Bill Clinton, 2008 Democratic National Convention...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:35 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Culture
In case you missed it, Hillary suspended the roll call to make Obama the nominee by acclamation: "Let's declare together in one voice right here, right now that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president," said...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 8:21 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Politics and Science
In my latest Science Progress column, contemplating declining funding levels for university-based scientific research, I ask where science stands in America today. The answer, not surprisingly, is complicated--but also worrisome. On the one hand, people really respect scientists. But on...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 4:39 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Hurricanes
[Tropical Storm Gustav coming off Haiti and reorganizing.] It has been almost three full years since a major hurricane hit the United States. The last one was 2005's Wilma. We aren't really used to this any more. 2004 and...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:10 PM • 4 Comments
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