That storm Friday — 100 kph wind? or 36 kph?
A 36 kph breeze is windy, but nothing out of the ordinary requiring shrill alerts on a fiery red map. "Expect a windy day Friday," would have sufficed....
16 January, 2020
Hey forecasters: nix “wind chill.” Give us real temperatures
Real temperature can be measured. How an individual will perceive the combination of real temperature and wind cannot be quantified....
19 February, 2019
The ghost of sea level rise yet to come
"Today's high winds out of the north created quite a storm surge along the southern shore of the Bras d’Or Lake," writes hydrologist Fred Baechler....
30 November, 2018
Nalcor didn’t hoodwink the UARB into approving the Maritime Link
Throw another log onto the campfire of hatred for Muskrat Falls by which Newfoundland media and politicians have warmed themselves for years....
27 November, 2018
Doing the wrong thing at Crescent Beach
Beaches are complex, dynamic, fragile systems that protect coastlines from storm damage, support wildlife, and offer recreational pleasures. They are imperilled when road builders with no scientific expertise in beach management muck about with excavators....
17 September, 2018
Inviting contractors to pave sand dunes in Canada’s Ocean Playground
"They are proceeding with the road repaving project in ignorance of the dynamics of the beach and dunes and therefore are putting the system at risk."...
13 September, 2018
Journo hubris: Crowing about an oil spill
Today’s Morning File led off with a victory lap in which Editor Tim Bousquet proclaimed that, “as I predicted, [the Tuft's Cove spill] was much larger than originally reported.” I call B.S....
15 August, 2018
How fake temperatures came to dominate weather forecasts
Scientific American calls bullshit on wind chill: [I]f the air temperature is, say, 15 degrees F, and a 20–mile per hour wind makes the wind chill –2 degrees F, would the temperature of your exposed skin drop to that temperature? No. Your skin temperature cannot drop below the actual air temperature. The coldest your uncovered face could get would be 15 degrees F whether the wind is calm or howling at 40 mph...
30 January, 2014
On guard for venison
Saturday in Purcell's Cove: Ruby had much to say about this intrusion in her own backyard. The deer, perhaps spying the leash, feigned indifference. Photo: Marla Cranston...
29 December, 2013
Edward Snowden’s Christmas message: asking is cheaper than spying.
Every Christmas since 1993, British Television's Channel 4 asks a noteworthy figure to record an "alternative" to starchy pieties of Her Majesty's annual Christmas message to her subjects. This year, Channel 4 tapped whistleblower Edward Snowden. From his temporary asylum in Russia, Snowden sounded a pithy, 1 minute, 43 second, warning about the dangers of government spying: A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves — an unrecorded, unanalysed thought...
28 December, 2013