It Takes a Village

Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 28, 2010 — I awoke with a start, as the village radio blared out its tinny opening anthem before the sun breached the horizon. The nearest loudspeaker is mounted on the cement power pole on the street directly beside our house, and its sound quality, quite frankly, sucks. Even if I could [...]

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Debating Global Warming: Lines in the Sand

Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 25, 2010, — I don’t think we are having the right discussion about climate change. I didn’t want to go there, but here I go — “global warming”. There, I said it.

Can there be a more divisive political issue than this? It’s right up there with Obama-care, deep-water drilling, baby seal clubbing, gay [...]

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Learning to Love the Tropics

Chiang Mai, Thailand, Oct. 11, 2010 — I have never blogged before, nor do I read blogs with any regularity. Lori approached me about writing an Adventures in Climate Change blog, to convey to people what it is like to be a field research scientist in dendrochronology (tree ring research) in Southeast Asia. I told her [...]

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