I find the update on the Kilauea Volcano (HCN, 6/11/18) puzzling in the extreme. First of all, it describes the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens as the backstory to Kilauea’s current eruption, claiming that “Lessons from Mount St. Helens are proving useful in understanding Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano.” The two volcanoes are entirely different with […]
Wendell Duffield
Posted inOctober 2, 2017: Following Ancient Footsteps
Dammed if we don’t
Krista Langlois’ article “Busting the big one” (HCN, 9/4/17) aptly describes the existential dilemma of whether or not draining Lake Powell into Lake Mead would increase/maximize the amount of water available for human use. If more studies are carried out to determine the best storage of available Colorado River water now and into the foreseeable […]
Posted inMay 12, 2014: Parks for All?
Pinocchios on Whitney
My April 14 issue arrived in today’s mail, and as usual I started reading pretty much right away. I was soon into the Horror Stories, where I realized that Colin Weatherby’s tall tale (“The Boy Scouts didn’t prepare us for this”) could have used some fact-checking. The peak named Mount Whitney is not “the highest in the […]
Posted inOctober 1, 2007: Sheep v. Sheep
Fault lines
Valerie Brown is to be congratulated for pursuing the story line in “A Climate Change Solution?” that some of the greenhouse carbon dioxide (CO2) that human activities are adding to the atmosphere could possibly be sequestered deep within a stack of basalt lava flows (HCN, 9/3/07). But the article fails to describe how scientist Peter […]