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  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Maria Cantwell Says Cuts to NOAA Threaten West Coast's Response to Tsunami Debris

    President Barack Obama's proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may be endangering the West Coast's ability to cope with the fallout from the Japanese tsunami headed our way. So charged U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell during a grilling of NOAA head Jane Lubchenco.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Japan Tsunami Debris May Not Be Giant Floating Field of Doom After All

    Scientists and government officials initially believed that the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan last year sent millions of tons of trash on a collision course with Hawaii and the West Coast. But nine months later, the flotsam is still lost at sea somewhere and perhaps not nearly as enor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Bill Nye the Science Guy Explains to FOX News Why Volcanoes on Moon Don't Disprove Climate Change on Earth

    ​Watch as former Seattleite and current genius Bill Nye "The Science Guy" betrays only the slightest vocal hint of are-you-fucking-kidding-me when FOX News anchor Jon Scott tries to connect the discovery of ancient volcanoes on the moon with climate change denial on earth.

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Genetically Modified Salmon: Coming Soon(ish) to a Fish Market Near you

    Salmon of the future!​A few months ago, the Waltham, Mass-based company AquaBounty Technologies created something of a stir among scientists, biotechnologists, fish farmers and those prone to freaking the fuck out over things like genetically modified foods and daydreams of oceans full of 900l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Meteor Shower! Here's Where and When to Go and What You Can Expect to See

    ​The biggest meteor shower of the year is happening early in the morning on Friday the 13th. If you're a sexy teen looking to lose your virginity to a fellow member of the Astronomy Club, expect a slow and painful death at the hands of an escaped mental patient. For everybody else, here's wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    TV Weather Forecasters Deny Climate Change--Except the Ones in the Northwest

    Say it ain't so, Al.​It makes sense that there's a lack of consensus between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to climate change. But meteorologists and climate scientists? Really? I thought those guys were supposed to be on the same team. According to a study by researchers at George M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Oregon Senator Ron Wyden on Port of Bellingham Bid For NOAA Center: We're Rubber, You're Glue...

    If Senator Wyden had his way, the NOAA would still be headed south. ​Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is down for his. And by that, I mean his constituents, whose side he's jumped in on in the ongoing political slapfight between the Port of Newport (Oregon) and the Port of Bellingham over which w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    NOAA Thumbs Its Nose at 'Rising Political Star' Maria Cantwell

    NOAA to Cantwell: We'll put our boats wherever we damn well please.​The Daily Beast named junior Senator Maria Cantwell a rising political star, but apparently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is unimpressed. The Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce reported yesterday that NOA ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    Bellingham's Gotcha on Oregon

    The battle to snag an NOAA base heats up.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Bellingham Pulls a Good Gotcha on Oregon, But It May Not Be Enough to Keep NOAA Jobs in Seattle

    noaa.govThe Okeanos Explorer in Seattle earlier this year. Headed for a floodplain in Oregon?​Last August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it would be moving its Pacific Marine Operations Center from Lake Union to Newport, Ore. in 2011. But yesterday the Governmen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    What's It Like to Be Hounded by Global Warming Deniers? The UW's Eric Steig Knows All Too Well

    "You better show me your data."​For the global-warming's-a-fraud crowd, these have been a fun-filled few days. Hackers recently posted hundreds of private emails to and from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. The authors of the emails--like anyone in a similar situ ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    Cover Story: Critical Mass

    A Carl Sagan protégé who bikes to work on the Burke is changing the way weather is forecasted in America.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Scary NOAA Charts & Graphs!

    ​El Nino? La Nina? Make up your damn mind already! (Sorry, our blog software doesn't do diacritical marks.) September and now October have proven to be remarkably mild and dry; and there's hardly been a trace of precip that would fall as snow in the mountains. Local weather guru Cliff Mass say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Welcome Back, El Nino

    NASA satellite image of El Nino in 2006. It looks kinda like a hypercolor Death StarFriend of lowland-dwellers and enemy of skiers and water supplies, El Nino appears to be on its way back. So says local weather expert Cliff Mass on his local weather blog. El Nino conditions occur when the surface t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Huskies in Space

    At 11 AM, the space shuttle Atlantis will take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and head up to space, where the crew will make improvements and repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. As you may have heard, the Atlantis will be piloted Gregory C. Johnson, a West Seattle High and UW alum. Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Let's Make Every Hour, Earth Hour

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2009

    Cliff Mass

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2009

    Cliff Mass

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2009

    Cliff Mass

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2008

    Cliff Mass

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2008

    Cliff Mass: The Weather of the Pacific Northwest

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Sims Blogs the Budget

    It used to be that you only had to spend twenty-four hours to pretend to care about saving the environment and fighting anthropogenic Global Warming. Now the City of Seattle has ratcheted the number up to twenty-five hours. The Mayor's office has sent out a press release saying Seattle will be par ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    Pro-Pluto Protest

    A 76-year reign brought to an ignominious halt

  • Calendar

    March 5, 2008

    Uwe Bratzler

    How to create mass

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

    Holophonic Sound - Strictly For The Headphones

    How to create mass

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2007

    Local Find: Ultra Rich Greek Yogurt

    How to create mass

  • Calendar

    November 28, 2007

    A Ride Through the Orion Nebula

    Cool stuff in the night skies

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    Local Ski Biz Bets It'll Beat Global Warming

    UW scientists predict brown mountainsides.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Inslee's Hot for Change; Local Soldiers Lost in the Other War

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    Inslee's Apollo

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    Cleaning Up the Burke

    A prof's notes are seized, and the UW museum's fossil records are studied.

  • News

    March 29, 2006

    Warm Globally, Act Locally

    A prof's notes are seized, and the UW museum's fossil records are studied.

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Birth of a Theory

    A brief history of intelligent design.

  • News

    February 1, 2006

    Discovery's Creation

    A Seattle think tank launched the modern intelligent-design movement with a simple memo. The idea has evolved into a media sensation. And the cause has mutated beyond rational control.

  • Diversions

    December 7, 2005

    A Stargazer Is Born

    Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    State Politics, Business, The Arts

    Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

  • Arts

    March 2, 2005

    Overcooked

    Global warming? What global warming? Finally a best seller to support Dubya's environmental agenda.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Media Follies!

    Global warming? What global warming? Finally a best seller to support Dubya's environmental agenda.

  • Food

    November 17, 2004

    El Niño

    Global warming? What global warming? Finally a best seller to support Dubya's environmental agenda.

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Mount St. Helens

    Online resources.

  • Arts

    June 16, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    Online resources.

  • Diversions

    May 26, 2004

    Unhappy Trails

    The Northwest's backcountry offers a grim preview of what's to come thanks to global warming.

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    MBoC (Off Campus)

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Rogue Who?

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Down with Kyoto!

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    Money in your genes

    Seattle is home to 800 nonhuman primates, but the University of Washington won't let anyone see them. Here's why.

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    Tomorrow's terror

    The next attack will likely be by land or water.

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    "...you don't know what the hell I'm talking about and every time I've written to explain this very complicated subject, you have not written back."

    The next attack will likely be by land or water.

  • News

    August 22, 2001

    Learning with the stars

    Inside the country's first college of astrology.

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