From NHPR, another story confirming what we all know about our winters: “A new study from Dartmouth, focused on snowpack in the last 40 years across the Northern Hemisphere, shows human-caused warming is having a big impact on winter. In New England, the researchers found, many river basins are losing 10% or more of their snowpack per decade.”
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Dave Brooks has written a weekly science/tech newspaper column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on geekish topics in and around the Granite State. He discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio, and moderated the monthly Science Cafe NH sessions when they were still a thing. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association, Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau (of all places) and his 2024 induction into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Recent Posts
- Learn about NH firm developing an autonomous helicopter
- Keeping hiking trails open is a Sisyphus-ian task (it even includes pushing big rocks around)
- LIDAR at Mount Washington Resort will analyze the bottom of the atmosphere
- The snow is deep and drifting; time to remind ourselves how snow fences work
- New England burning oil to make electricity during a deep freeze is ‘a feature, not a bug’
Another interesting corollary would be to see how the vanishing snowpack affects groundwater conditions, and even potential wildfires
And yet. Only 4% of NH voters said climate change was their first concern. I posted something about the erratic jet stream and was instantly described as a moron on Facebook. (Because the first response assumed I didn’t know that the tilt of the earth causes the seasons and because it is crazy to think that humans can affect the weather). Facebook of course is a mosh pit, but it is also now where most people get their news. We need better batteries, but more so we need better communication skills. And fast. We are apparently talking in a barrel.