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Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
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September 30, 2006
Category: Bare politics • Congress
For all you fellow inside politics wonks, a must-read out the NY Times today: Of Party Dues and Deadbeats on Capitol Hill. Good inside look into how the parties find soft money despite campaign finance "reform." This was essentially my...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:19 PM • 1 Comments
September 29, 2006
Category: ESA • Wilderness
[Note: eye candy below the fold, at the bottom of the post.] A few days ago some hunters in the San Isabel National Forest (center of the state in the mountains west of Colorado Springs) claim to have spied a...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 10:07 AM • 2 Comments
September 28, 2006
Category: Science politics
"A number of America's leading scientists" have started a 527 called Scientists & Engineers for America which was covered by a couple of other Sbers and by the Times today. Their raison d'entrée is, "...electing public officials who respect evidence...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:04 PM • 7 Comments
September 27, 2006
Category: Culture • Science+culture
Perusing the NY Times science section online, a headline caught my eye: "Subway Sleuth Clears Dinosaur of Cannibalism." Despite originally being a geologist (or because of it?), dinosaurs never really interested me much. And the cannibalism hook doesn't interest me...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:58 PM • 7 Comments
September 26, 2006
Category: Climate change • Water
There's an article in yesterday's Daily Camera that starts off like this: If global warming brings serious droughts to Colorado in the next century, Boulder's water planners don't want to be caught off-guard. Boulder is one of the first communities...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 11:19 AM • 3 Comments
September 22, 2006
Category: Congress • Friday Politics
Way back when (ok, last November) I handicapped the Dems' chances of taking back the Senate and House this November. I thought there no chance that the D's would retake the House and only a small chance that the D's...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 3:02 PM • 0 Comments
September 20, 2006
Category: Congress
Blogging colleague John Fleck sent me a House Science Committee press release which announces that today the House passed H.R. 5450. (Hey you! Yea you, in the back of the class! Wake up! This is important!) H.R. 5450 is the...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 3:26 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Environment
I'm putting this up for those of you who come straight in and out of NoSeNada. Revere posted a story Monday about a British arms manufacturer designing "environmentally friendly" weapons. Snippet (go to Revere's post for the rest and some...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 11:55 AM • 3 Comments
September 19, 2006
Category: Culture • Wilderness
Of course when you show irreverence for a hyper-popular icon, especially one recently passed, you're going to hear about it, and I did in the comments. That's ok, I'm a big boy and can take the heat. But it is...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 11:04 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Earth Sci Article Abstracts • Earth Science (general) • Water
See here for yesterday's hurricane rundown and here for yesterday's climate rundown; see here for all the previous briefings. Integrating stakeholder values with multiple attributes to quantify watershed performance by Shriver and Randhir of UMASS-Amherst. There's a lot going on...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 11:05 AM • 0 Comments
September 18, 2006
Category: Climate change • Earth Sci Article Abstracts
As I said in the last post, I have a lot of abstracts backlogged right now, so I'm splitting the breakdown into a few different posts. Now for the general climate change papers: Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:41 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Climate change • Earth Sci Article Abstracts • Natural hazards/disasters
I have a lot of abstracts backlogged right now, so I'm splitting the breakdown into a few different posts. First, the hurricane battles continue: Evidence in support of the climate change-Atlantic hurricane hypothesis by James B. Elsner of Florida State....
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 5:22 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Natural hazards/disasters • Science+Congress
I've written a bunch on FEMA and have been following the post-Katrina ping pong ball as it bounces all over our fair capitol city. I haven't exactly been quiet about my opinion that FEMA needs to come out of DHS...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 4:09 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Annoucements • Climate change • Science coverage
"The British Council USA, in partnership with American University and SeaWeb/COMPASS, is pleased to present a dyanmic international workshop "Communicating Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future." Participants will learn how to effectively communicate complex climate change science...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 1:12 PM • 0 Comments
September 17, 2006
Category: Congress • Geology • Science coverage
Over on geology.about.com (helpful tip: if you're ever teaching a lecture on geology, go there first), Andrew Alden scoops me in announcing that Mark Myers has been confirmed by the Senate as the next head of the USGS. Back in...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments
September 15, 2006
Category: E-voting • Friday Politics • Technology
Via recent new commenter Inky Circus, a post listing how many ways the Diebold voting machine is an utter disaster. Here's the soft-underbelly problem with the Diebold's problems: we have a very un-tech-savvy society (and that's putting it mildly). The...
Posted by Kevin Vranes at 6:03 PM • 7 Comments
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