Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
We need a geo-civics.
“Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. The term derives from the Latin word...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial reading. April Lawson’s essay on building trust across the political divide.
You’ll want to read her absolutely brilliant and uplifting 2021 article. But first please indulge a bit of LOTRW backstory....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Does COP-26 have an Achilles heel? It could be a lack of the needed workforce.
This past week and over the next, those worldwide who are alarmed (and many of the merely concerned) by climate...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Economists channel their inner meteorologist.
The October 23-29 print edition of The Economist features a cover story entitled Instant Economics: the real time revolution. The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stream-of-consciousness: flowing from remembering Francis Bretherton, to end-use climate assessment, to Paul Robeson.
stream of consciousness: a narrative mode or method that attempts “to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which [sic] pass through the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Francis Bretherton, 1935-2021
The Earth sciences community lost one of its most luminous, influential lights on June 27th, with the passing of Francis...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tooth, Tail, and Territory? Relationships among the three are as vital to innovation as they are to military conflict
[a great societal] “challenge, a development problem, is the widening gap between advancing scientific knowledge and technology and society’s ability to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Observing Hang-together Day – July 5
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin (on occasion of the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Policy nous: the superpower you use to harness your science to “the benefit of life.”
“Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all — that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Additional) reflections on geoengineering.
The recent NASEM report on geoengineering prompted some discussion yesterday on our daily AMS Policy Program call. One of my...
