Graham Knopp's Blog

Topics in land use, culture, and nature.

  • Observed and Predicted Climate Change, and a few other things…

    The climate alarmists are agog about the cold region in the north Atlantic, as evidence of a failing AMOC current. Now, I’m not an oceanographer, but I have discussed the science of thermal uptake here, and I should review the literature about the AMOC, but I was under the impression that weakening of the AMOC…

  • Planning and Houston

    copyright Graham Paul Knopp 2026 It’s really difficult to put these two words in the same sentence. Houston is infamous for its lack of urban planning. Now, planning has been a subject of study for some time now, more  than a minute. It became a formal study when I prepared for the American Institute of…

  • Climate Change Update

    It’s late February and the sea surface anomaly map looks like this. Yes, this is starting to get serious. Let’s update a few other maps in this post. Like drought. Here’s the USA, and the much less important (irony alert, just to be sure), rest of the world. Not a great picture, but look at…

  • Commodities and Climate Change, a Simple Question Asked

    Observing the global drought monitor, it appears that much of the world is in drought. International | Drought.gov There are significant parts of Europe, central Asia, Africa, South America, and North America in significant drought (D3 or worse). While the USA drought map shows somewhat improved conditions in recent weeks, particularly in California, the situation…