Perspectives
Oklahoma Mesonet Station Stands Tall in EF-4 Tornado
by Chris Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey It was bound to happen eventually. The Oklahoma Mesonet has 120 weather stations across...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
2011: the Mississippi flooding, the U.S. tornado season, and climate change.
Recently I was graciously invited to contribute to an online forum on possible links between the increasing frequency and severity...
Interactive Slide Shows Joplin Before, After Tornado
By now, most if not all of us know what happened in Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, May 22, 2011: the...
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Tornadoes, “threat levels,” and over-warning
There are bloggers, and then there are actual-card-carrying-journalists-who-happen-to-blog. Andy Revkin is one of the finer examples of the latter, more-select...
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The Joplin tornado and St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
There’s “vulnerable,” and then there’s vulnerable. Ever wonder what it might be like to be hit by a tornado? At...
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Is the climate changing? Does it matter? Here’s one way you and I can tell.
A couple of days ago, Judith Curry provided a signature-thoughtful post on her excellent blog, Climate Etc. Entitled U.S. Military...
Deadliest Tornado in Modern Era Slashes Missouri
It hasn’t even been a month since violent, history making tornadoes made headlines across the United States, and yet here...
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A scary statistic.
“I meet, therefore I am.” Rene Descartes, the French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher (1596-1650, quoted during a brief interview granted...
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Too Big to Fail: transboundary water conflicts hint at favorable possible evolutions for the climate-change debates
Wednesday a good friend and I were talking and the subject turned to water…and, in particular, transboundary water disputes around...
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Freshening the air…in environmental debate
Sometime back in the day (late 1960’s, early ‘70’s) I happened to pick up an issue of Consumer Reports. I...
