Mark Bernstein (who I do not know) went off on the blogosphere this weekend, complaining that bloggers (science bloggers, specifically) are not breaking down the oil spill story and writing on it in a coherent fashion. After ranting about how bloggers who are making a stab at explaining things aren’t doing a good enough job, [...]
They’re still burning in Orange County, San Bernardino County (Slide Fire) and San Diego, so this may be premature but being me, I’m going to jump in anyway with some random, scattered thoughts. FEMA: I’m not a reporter, but I play one on TV I mentioned in my earlier post that FEMA appeared to be [...]
Tim’s got a wonderful post up about the long-range planning that he believes should go into reconstructing the levees and New Orleans. Some of his ideas include 1,000 year levee design and construction, rational layout of levees and alignments, raised construction in the flood plain, and a rational, organized evacuation plan. If bloggers ran the [...]