FS608R Digital Camera Binoculars FHD 1080P: Review
Posted by Greg Laden on September 4, 2015 
The FS608R Digital Camera Binoculars FHD 1080P from Gear Best is a low-end binocular with a built in camera that takes up to 2592 x 1944 (defaults to 2,048 x 1,536, and can go lower) pixel photos or avi movies (no sound). Really good binoculars cost hundreds of dollars, but there is a range of…
Tales of the Ex-Apes
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2015 
Jonathan Marks’ new book is called “Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution.” I’ve got to tell you that when I first saw the title of this book, the letters played in my head a bit. Tails of the Ex-Apes. That would be funny because apes don’t have tails. Or Tales of…
The outlook for Hawaiian coral is bleak
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2015 
Marine biologists from the University of Queensland is looking at coral reefs in Hawaii and what they see is not good. They used high resolution images to track coral bleaching and death. Recently coral reefs in Hawaii suffered their first known mass bleaching event, caused by unusually warm waters associated with the now famous “Blob”…
Climate Change Plus Irreversible Evolution Will Force Key Ocean Bacteria into Overdrive
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
I’ve got a press release from the University of Southern California that seems important, but I don’t have time today to read the study. So, you can look at the press release and tell me what you think of it. Climate Change Will Irreversibly Force Key Ocean Bacteria into Overdrive Scientists demonstrate that a key…
Slowing global warming would save piles of money
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
The Citi Global Perspectives and Solutions thingie, part of Citibank, has done a study that you can read here. It says that addressing global warming makes economic sense. So, when those science deniers are out there denying climate change they are also denying arithmetic. Shame on them. Dana Nuccitelli, author of Climatology versus Pseudoscience and…
Tristes Tropiques
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
Not the book (which is good) but the thing. The storms, really. I may have mentioned the pilot whales I saw in San Diego the other day. You’ve heard about changes in shark distributions, and odd fish being caught in unusual places, etc. This is all about changes in the Pacific as increased global warming…
Who thinks what about climate change and science?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
Two items of interest. 1) A new poll looks at conservative and liberal views of science. The findings are not especially unexpected, but the details are interesting. The image above is from this infographic, and the details are given here. Yes, the detail are quite interesting. 2) If you care, there is some information on…
Climate Change Viewed From Alaska
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
Alaska is being called the poster child (state?) for climate change because things have been so strange there lately. One reason for this is the extreme warm conditions in the North Pacific and associated (probably) changes in the jet stream, as well as overall warming, which has caused coastal Alaska to become a warm place,…
September is National Preparedness Month (USGS)
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
Be prepared! Did you now that September is, in the US, National Preparedness Month? The idea is to pay attention to natural threats and how to deal with them. This is a project of the USGS. Good idea to give it some thought on this tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The USGS recommends a scientific…
Anthropogenic Global Warming Causes Significant Changes in Climate Zones
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2015 
Human caused climate change is changing the size and location of major climate zones, according to a new study. Climate is complex, and a classic, widely used effort to wrangle that complexity into a sensible form is the Köppen classification system (and variants). We need not speak of the details here, but within this scheme…
