The Post-Normal Times. Two Line Salamander found in Ten Mile Creek.
Photo Credit: Cathy Wiss, Audubon Naturalist Society. I have recently become involved in an effort to save Ten Mile Creek, also known as the last best creek in Montgomery County (MoCo) Maryland. MoCo even uses it as a ‘reference stream’ against which to measure the health of other streams, which means you can still find salamanders in it, and even a few trout. Not surprisingly, it is now threatened with development impacts.
These are associated with a Master Plan for the Clarksburg area, for which the MoCo Council is considering options for a limited amendment that would establish the permissible amount of impervious surface in the watershed, for purposes of protecting the Creek. Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? At the beginning of March, I was invited to give a talk at TEDxUofT.
Colleagues tell me the hardest part of giving these talks is deciding what to talk about. I decided to see if I could answer the question of whether we can trust climate models. Rabett Run. Scholars and Rogues. The Science of Doom. Stoat.