Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
How to increase long- and short-term risk to the American economy.
America and Americans are today blessed with the world’s largest and strongest economy. Suppose you wanted to put that economy...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump… and H.R. 353, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017.
Last week saw two major events in the United States. The first, the historic encounter between President Donald Trump and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Progress on Climate Change? Good news… and bad.
This weekend, both the Washington Post and the New York Times carried op-eds on the new administration’s attempts to turn...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A Goldilocks approach to climate change.
“A Goldilocks planet is a planet that falls within a star’s habitable zone, and the name is often specifically used for planets close to the size...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The $100T opportunity.
“Most managers spend 80% of their time on problems, and 20% of their time on opportunities. They ought to reverse...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Good policy still matters.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Matthew 7:12 In recent months, Earth scientists, whether...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Matthew J. Parker
“Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living the American Dream – ca. 2017
Spending the weekend with friends… … and my friend shared his dream from the night before: Seems America had built...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
$100T, (clumsily) translated into jobs and business opportunity.
A week ago, I ran into a long-time USACE colleague in the supermarket. We started out the way people of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
$100 trillion? Opportunity or sinkhole? The reaction so far.
The law of holes: “When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” – Will Rogers As noted in...
