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Why do climate scientists need a legal defense fund?

backyardboyz — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:28 +0000

Over the past few years, climate deniers have subjected some college professors who are among the nation’s leading climate scientists to “e-mail hacking, death threats, politician’s demands for documents, Freedom of Information requests” and more, as Andy Revkin points out.

When [...]

All politics is local and so is beer

backyardboyz — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:08:04 +0000

Senator Schumer is launching an “I love NY brew” campaign. Great! Of course, the alliance of beer and politics goes back centuries.*

All over northern Europe, city hall chambers upstairs have a barrel-vaulted basements devoted to refreshments. After all, the cellar had good constant temperatures–perfect for storing beer–and other [...]

What’s Mercedes up to above the mantle? big picture

backyardboyz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:00:01 +0000

What’s Mercedes up to on the mantle? part 3

backyardboyz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:00:03 +0000

What’s Mercedes up to on the mantle? part 2

backyardboyz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:00:57 +0000

What’s Mercedes up to on the mantle? part 1

backyardboyz — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:28:38 +0000

King tide creeps up on Croton

backyardboyz — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:31:06 +0000

The coots sure enjoyed the extra water that this week’s king tide brought to the Croton estuary–together with Thursday’s ducky rainfall. The good news is that our commuter lot did not flood, even though the tide was 30% higher than normal and we had lots of rain in the hours before high tide. This short

Not in my backyard, but way above it

backyardboyz — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:32:29 +0000

Every so often, but not often enough, you look out the window and really see something. Another vid brought to by the backyardboyz: No blue like the blue above the clouds

Public peel and strip in the park

backyardboyz — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:37:16 +0000

The Toughman Event came to our backyard this weekend for its 4th annual race, based at Croton Point Park: a 1.2 mile swim in the Hudson River + 56 miles on a bike from Croton to Somers and back + 13.1 mile run from the Point inland up to the Croton Dam and back.

This [...]

Reaching through the shadow of 9-11

backyardboyz — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:06:14 +0000

Our village, Croton, is very fortunate to be working with two neighboring communities, Cortlandt and Buchanan, on a permanent site for a remembrance memorial dedicated to 9-11. We obtained a huge, wonderful, twisted, grotesque, and animated beam from the One World Trade Center to use for the memorial.

A thoughtful, short