Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Former Republican EPA Administrators support the Obama Climate Action Plan…
…and suggest we can do more. On August 1, the New York Times ran an opinion piece entitled A Republican...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather drones serve as flying test beds for new sensors
The latest in George Leopold’s guest series on the use of drone aircraft for Earth observations, science, and services… NASA...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A new AMS policy statement on space weather.
In July, the American Meteorological Society’s Council adopted a new policy statement on space weather. It’s worth a read in...
Annual Meeting Updates
Philip Ardanuy and Eileen Shea, the co-chairs of the 2014 AMS Annual Meeting, and AMS President J. Marshall Shepherd recently...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Building the legitimacy of ensemble” approaches to policy formulation.
Tuesday’s post made a case for what might be called “ensemble” approaches to policy formulation. The idea is borrowed from...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Moving Forward, Again, on a National Network of Networks
by James Stalker, President & CEO, RESPR, Inc. Since my last blog in The Front Page a little over a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Further reflection on projected economic consequences of Arctic methane release
George Leopold’s guest post on this topic builds on a paper by Whiteman, Hope and Wadhams, published online yesterday. Their...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Avoiding a ‘methane pulse’ in the Arctic
Another guest post from George Leopold: An increasingly likely “methane pulse” that would result from the warming of Arctic permafrost...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“Ensemble” approaches work for weather forecasting. Why not for policy formulation?
This graphic, from Mike Smith’s blog, may look like a jumble to you. But to meteorologists, it’s a thing of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Notes from the 2013 International Hazard Mitigation Practitioners Symposium
One appealing and substantively important feature of the annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshops is the co-mingling of researchers and...
