by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Newsletter
I have solar hot water panels on my roof, and it’s annoying when snow stays on them for days at a time, effectively turning them off. Others are annoyed by this habit, too, judging from this report discussing work at the Vermont Test Center run by the U.S....
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: More than 50 million years ago, when the Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size. While this mammalian dwarfism has previously been linked to the largest of these events, research...
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Kevin Landrigan at the Union-Leader spotted an interesting tidbit from AAA and turned it into an interesting story: Using brine to clean snow and ice from roads, as compared to road salt, might be better for the environment but it’s worse for cars. Why?...
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a Q&A with a Dartmouth math professor who has joined the push to download and preserve data related to climate science, fearing that the current administration will delete it. The college is providing server space, as is UNH and many other...
by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
This report from UNH came out last week, while I was on vacation, so here it is late. It will, I think, change few minds because of some of the folks behind it (funding by The Nature Conservancy? Cameron Wake is involved? Conspiracy and fake news!) but it’s...