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Barack, Mitt . . . and Sandy
In the modern era of presidential campaigns, even with candidates’ every last word and action carefully scripted, there can still...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Planning for the Next Superstorm: Kids Will Lead the Way
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program Superstorm Sandy was a reminder that the best time for severe weather preparedness is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Whether thinking about Hurricane Sandy or the IPCC and climate change, our choice doesn’t have to be “either-or.”
Maybe it should be “both-and.” With all the damage from Hurricane Sandy on our minds this week, my thoughts have...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hurricane Sandy’s Real Lesson…will we learn it?
Viewed narrowly, Hurricane Sandy is a success story. Start with the forecast. Americans were given a week’s heads-up that Hurricane...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hurricane Sandy: Landmark forecast. Good emergency response. Now for the hard part.
Thanks to an extraordinary…perhaps historic…weather forecast, millions of Americans living along the entire length of the east-coast United States had...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hurricane Sandy…the most important weather forecast since D-Day?
Imagine…if Hurricane Sandy had been forecast to go out to sea, as might have been the case as recently as...
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Wild Weather Comes to NCAR
A new exhibit exploring the power of weather and the stories behind it opened earlier this month at NCAR’s Mesa...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
And the 2012 Election October Surprise is…Hurricane Sandy, aka Frankenstorm!
Who knew? But then, that’s why they call it a surprise. For some time now, ever since the Russians invaded...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Death by stoning.
“But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I (the Lord) have not commanded him to say,...
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A Chat with the Iceman
By Maureen Moses, AMS Education Program I hope you all had a good Earth Science Week last week! The theme...
