Perspectives
To protect ecosystem services, front-load investment in environmental intelligence.
Meteorologists aren’t alone in making forecasts. Ecologists make them too. One such recent forecast suggests that without major reductions in greenhouse...
Perspectives
The Impact-based Decision Support System (IDSS) that will someday matter most? It may be ecological.
Many LOTRW readers are familiar with IDSS; others may not be. Here’s some background from the NWS website: Timely and relevant...
Perspectives
The American Soul (and yours and mine): Closer to King-of-the-Hill? Or the Herndon Climb? And where do meteorologists fit in?
Okay, okay. So it’s a long title. Today’s LOTRW post is the product of insomnia (writing started around 2 am). A...
Perspectives
Meteorology and the resilience movement
In the LOTRW fine print you can find an invitation to submit guest posts. Over the eight years only a handful...
1871 Hawaii Hurricane Strike Shows Lane's Imminent Danger Isn't Unprecedented
Powerful Hurricane Lane is forecast to skirt if not directly hit Hawaii as a slowly weakening major hurricane today and...
Perspectives
Could “science” have morphed into a word that divides us?
The previous LOTRW post dealt with the struggles of scientists – of every stripe – to go beyond the boundaries...
Perspectives
The struggle to realize societal benefit from S&T.
“The American Meteorological Society advances the atmospheric and related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the benefit of society.” –...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
No science, no sustainability… the implications.
If vigorous advance of science and technology is a necessary condition for sustainability, then getting the social contract between science...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
No science, no sustainability.
On August 26, 1999 – almost two decades ago – Allan Bromley, science advisor to George H.W. Bush from 1989-1993,...
If You Can Make Climate Resilience Here, You Can Make It Anywhere!
The 10th International Conference on Urban Climate and 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, co-hosted by AMS at City College...
