Goodbye, Greenhouse Gases…Hello, Tyndall Gases!
If there was a Hall of Fame for the atmospheric sciences, John Tyndall would have been one of its first...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
NOAA and its people look to the future on Martin Luther King Day
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin...
Where Do We Feel at Home Now?
You can’t go home again, novelist Thomas Wolfe famously explained in a novel published, ironically, in 1940–the year Franklin Delano...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Paleo-NOAA and Neo-“NOAA”
The sun appears to be rising in the East this morning… … but that sliver of the world concerned with...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
For NOAA, persistence may not be the best forecast just now
A week or so back my pastor and I were standing outside the church with his young daughter. I asked...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Anniversary Remembrances of Two Disasters
Thirty years ago to the day I was still working for NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and...
Have You Modernized Today?
Have you swapped out some old incandescent light bulbs for the newfangled LED lights lately? How about upgraded some software?...
Across AMS
Accepting Nominations for the 2012 Harry Wexler Award
A meeting focused on technology. A commitment to look back at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Striving for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Non-violent scientific discourse
Though there’s much in today’s news to discuss, on topics as diverse as disaster recovery and our (micro-) managed planet,...
The Next Steps for the USGCRP
This week, the National Research Council issued a report of a blue-ribbon panel arguing that the United States Global Change Research Program...
