This past weekend was a weekend of fire, rain, and snow in the Alleghenies. I was walking on the James Mayer Trail in Johnstown when I saw a bunch of sparks and heard a tree fall. I got closer to see what happened. What I saw was in the video above. I called 911 toContinue reading “Fire, Rain, and Snow in the Alleghenies”
Tag Archives: Climate Change
Citizen Science
Last week I watched a special live broadcast by the PBS show Nature titled American Spring. It was a three night event with the first episode discussing birth and rebirth, the second covering migration. and the third was on connections. You can see episode 1 above. The series chronicled the efforts of citizen scientists inContinue reading “Citizen Science”
Facebook Experiment Update and Global Data Competition
Post Type 11-Oct 18-Oct Friend/family 2 2 Friend/Political 2 0 friend/share 2 2 Post from group 1 3 Post from page 2 1 promoted post 1 2 I looked at the types of posts from the first 10 posts I saw in my news feed on Facebook. Though some of the counts are different fromContinue reading “Facebook Experiment Update and Global Data Competition”
What Shaq can teach us about Climate Change
This week the UN is holding it’s 17th annual climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban, South Africa with the US not in attendance (with the possible exception of famous climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe R-OK who may address the conference by video). Last year I posted one of my all time most popularContinue reading “What Shaq can teach us about Climate Change”