Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Meteorology’s main thing.
“What are your priorities?” Earlier today, a Senate staffer asked this question of attendees at the American Meteorological Society Summer...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
WAS*IS, 2011-style
Last year about this time, an early post on this blog described an innovative program hosted by the National Center...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Compound fracture.
Fractured: the U.S. body politic, the world economy, U.S. towns, and natural-gas-bearing rock. On Wednesday, August 4th, the New York...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living on the Real World – one year on.
August 3 marks the first anniversary of my inaugural post on this blog. That first year? Just over 200 posts....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
America’s Real-World Challenge.
Here’s our situation in a nutshell. United States debt stands at $14T and is growing rapidly. The economy is in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
John H. (Jack) Marburger, III (1941-2011) – requiescat in pace
Jack Marburger died Thursday, July 28, after battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma for four years. A former science advisor to President George...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Looking ahead to America’s Real Challenge…and Opportunity
That clattering sound we all hear this morning? Congress and the President have just kicked the debt-ceiling can a little...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The U.S. Debt Ceiling: today’s version of the Maginot Line
The spirit of André Maginot lives today. Don’t think so? Take a look at the current U.S. preoccupation with the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The other Congress: an eye on natural hazards, and looking to adapt to climate change
Americans might be forgiven for thinking that Congress is “all-debt-ceiling,-all-the-time.” But thankfully, even Thursday, July 28 of all days, there’s...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Maybe we aren’t so smart as we think…
The last post posed the question…why isn’t there greater public-, policymaker-, and private-sector demand for the information Earth scientists and...
