Graham Knopp's Blog

Topics in land use, culture, and nature.

  • Hiking with Dad.

    Or, how I learned to hike with others. This is a post about backpacking with teenagers in the high Sierra Nevada. It might be of interest to beginner backpackers and thru hikers alike, as well as those interested in backpacking with kids in mountainous terrain. Here’s the short summary, the ES, since you want that…

  • 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…