Thursday, October 30, 2008

Gunnison County may cut funds for cloud seeding According to the Crested Butte News Gunnison County is taking a hard look at the results from cloudseeding. From the article: ...with a tight budget and recurring nightmares about the costs of last year's plowing, the Board of County Commissioners wasn't ready to commit funds right away to bring the seeding program back this year. At their regular meeting Tuesday, October 28, the commissioners heard from Don Griffith of Utah-based North American Weather Consultants, Inc. who presented the plan purely as fact, with scientific data to prove that cloud seeding increases snowfall. More Coyote Gulch coverage here. "colorado water" 6:20:05 PM     Climate change driving loss of amphibians in Yellowstone National Park From: "Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate [Sarah McMenamin], can be the makings of a career. So, it says quite a bit when Sarah McMenamin of Stanford University says she would give it all up for a different result." Here's a link to a short video of her work. More Coyote Gulch coverage here. "cc" 5:30:53 PM     CoyoteGulch.net outage If you were trying to get here today using http://www.coyotegulch.net/ we apologize for an outage this morning. Power went down and the UPS didn't keep the server up and running. 5:11:56 PM

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