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So, Just What Do "Sunny" Southern California Broadcast Meteorologists Do?
You know the perception: It never rains in Southern California, so forecasting the weather there is easy. Not so fast,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Takeaways from yesterday’s Global Climate Strike
“There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader[1]” – Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Populism – a political approach...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
An aspirational goal for the next administration: crafting a superbloom in the predictability desert?
(Yesterday’s LOTRW post introduced the subject of transition documents. Today’s post continues that train of thought.) Yes, a superbloom is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tis the season… for developing transition documents.
We all know that Washington DC is the nation’s capital. Unsurprisingly, it’s also the capital city for non-governmental organizations (NGO’s),...
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Critical thinking versus criticism thinking
Critical thinking: the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. Google the expression critical...
Peer Review: A Foundational Component of Our Science
by Keith L. Seitter, CCM, AMS Executive Director This week we join many other scientific publishers celebrating Peer Review Week to...
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AMS at 100: core values for tomorrow.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost...
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Scientific Integrity? Simple and easy – until it isn’t.
This morning’s print edition of the Washington Post ran an op-ed authored by some former NOAA leaders who know their...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Queeg.
“Art imitates life.” – Aristotle “Life imitates art.” – Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying. Perhaps...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Dorian.
Huge areal extent. High winds at the core (at times, category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale). Slow-moving, featuring long dwell...
