Coyote Crossing

Conservatives respect property unless it doesn’t belong to them

[Update: it’s gone now. Amazing how much it bothered me that Zeke’s image was featured on that pile of mendacity they call a website.]

A guest poster at Anthony Watts’ harebrained climate denial site didn’t even ask permission before stealing

Speaking of extreme weather in the Mojave

They’re having a bit of water over at the other edge of the Mojave Desert, in the St. George Utah area.

Zion NP is closed due to flooding on the Virgin River, and they’re evacuating towns downstream possibly including St. George itself. Again,

You know what’s weird?

...when you’re doing research on climate stuff and you see a thumbnail of a video of one of your dearest friends, and it’s the first time you’ve seen it and it’s almost a year out of date.

Not bad for lacking a teleprompter. Nice work, … (continues)

Quick pointers

I just found a blog I’ll be tracking:

The Voltage Gate is a blog about ecology and the creative process, a look at two disciplines both in isolation and through the lens of the other. Here you will find reviews of current and foundational

There’s no such thing as desertification

If you want evidence to support my increasingly frequent contention that environmentalists as a whole really don’t care about arid environments, it’s instructive to look at a bit of jargon in use over the last few decades.

The jargon is used to

I wish they’d stop printing books I want to read

...especially given that I have no income.

This one sounds good:

Every scientific study confirms that global warming will cause the amount of water in the Colorado River to decline, yet because we already use every drop, there is none to

Tree Deaths Double in West

From the US Geological Survey:

Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S.