We inhabit a water planet. The bible tells us about the nature of the earth and its formation and then sculpting by water from the very beginning: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the […]
Leap Year
LEAP DAY: It was Julius Caesar who modified the Roman lunar calendar into an Egyptian-style solar calendar, which included an intercalary day every four years. This is the “Julian Calendar.” In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII established the “Gregorian Calendar” to accommodate a long-term error in the Julian Calendar, establishing that there would NOT be a […]
Super El Niño
Its been a super year to study weather and it just keeps getting better. The 2015-16 Super El Niño continues to thrill eager weather researchers and climate scientists. We’ve seen venomous sea snakes on California beaches, huge toxic algal blooms off the coast of WA and OR, and a tropical cyclone that may be the first in […]