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El Nino Finally Cranking Up

Pacific Ocean temperatures have been increasing rapidly over the last month, suggesting that a stalled El Niño, harbinger of wetter winters here, has popped the clutch and is back in gear. The latest monthly forecast discussion concludes that El Niño, ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Weather Service

Sandia Director Makes $1.7 million

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio makes $800 thousand per year. The numbers became public this week when the labs reported them as one of the conditions of accepting money under the federal stimulus program. The compensation ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Los Alamos National Laboratory,  Barack Obama,  George Miller

Is H1N1 Already Past Its Peak in NM?

Google's flu tracker suggests H1N1 peaked in New Mexico in mid-October, and is declining. That's the conclusion of an experimental tool developed by Google and epidemiologists that keeps track of people searching the Internet for information about flu ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Nuclear Auditors Raise New Los Alamos Nuclear Safety Questions

A major earthquake could cause serious radiation leaks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to a report today from federal nuclear auditors. The four page letter from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (pdf here) lays out a scenario in ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Los Alamos National Laboratory,  Energy Department

Freeze Warning

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for the Albuquerque metro area and the lower Rio Grande Valley for tomorrow morning (Tues. 10/27). We do not publish all comments, and we do not publish comments immediately. ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: National Weather Service

ABQ Water: Some progress, but problems remain

Residents of the middle Rio Grande have made progress in recent years in using their water more wisely, experts said at a water conference going on today in Albuquerque. But much remains to be done. Albuquerque has cut per capita water consumption from ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  24 Oct 2009

Discuss Albuquerque's Water Future

Those interested in Albuquerque's water future will be gathering at UNM for tomorrow's annual meeting of the Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Oct. 24), with some chit-chat, snacks and a poster session beginning at 8 a.m., the ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  23 Oct 2009

Clinton Hints at Robust Lab Budgets for 2011

In a speech earlier this week in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at a robust budget for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex in 2011 as part of the Obama administration's long-range push to reduce a reliance on U.S. nuclear ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama

Obama Offers Props to Bingaman

Leaders in the business community are standing with leaders in the environmental community to protect the economy and the planet we leave for our children. The House of Representatives has already passed historic legislation, due in large part to the ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Ed Markey,  U.S. Republican Party,  John Kerry

El Nino Looking Modest

This year's El Niño, New Mexico's bringer of winter rain and snow, is looking pretty anemic. The Climate Prediction Center's monthly forecast discussion, out this morning, calls for an El Niño that will "most likely peak at moderate strength." After a ...

From JOHN FLECK, Albuquerque Journal,  8 Oct 2009

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