Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tackling the future.
Years ago, when I was in high school, football players in western Pennsylvania industrial towns didn’t wear face masks. (Talk...
Subtle, but Sultry: A Fog Story
On a day of extremes in the West (with downtown Los Angeles, for example, setting an all-time record high), Cliff...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 5. In the future, command-and-control top-down decisions and actions will be increasingly ineffective.
A few days have passed since the last post. In part this is because my wife and I took some...
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Walking a Fine Hydrologic Line
by Robert V. Sobczak, National Park Service, Big Cypress National Preserve. Reposted from his blog, The South Florida Watershed Journal....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 4. We will face declining margins and greater scarcity.
Sure, the human race is on a roll. But can we keep it up? In my life I’ve run a...
A Slow Start, but Gaining Fast
Tropical Storm Lisa became the 12th named storm in the Atlantic Basin this week in what has suddenly become the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 3. The future will be punctuated by acute, highly-localized pollution episodes.
Love Canal dioxins. The Minamata mercury spill. PG&E’s leak of Chromium VI into Hinkley, CA groundwater. DDT. PCB’s. Other endocrine...
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Nowcasts: Forecasting's Achilles Heel
by Cliff Mass, University of Washington Adapted from a post from this weekend on Cliff Mass Weather Blog. On Saturday...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 2. Hazards will prove more dangerous and disruptive than we expect.
The tremendous success of the human race over the past century or so – our rapid population growth, increased resource...
Danger Lurks where Weather Statistics Lack
In his new book, Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of...
