Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Time is money.
Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. This general truism also...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Brainstorming the next generation of weather satellites
another guest post from George Leopold: What follows goes beyond the realm of blue-sky thinking, extending to what might be...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Complexity.
If ever a single individual understood this subject and its implications for late 20th-century mankind it was Peter Drucker. He...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Three (simultaneous) real-world challenges
… that we face locally, everywhere… and globally. In a nutshell, here’s the unending task of living on the real...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The AMS joins the American Institute of Physics.
Mere hours ago, the American Institute of Physics announced that the American Meteorological Society has just become its newest member....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Climate resilience comes to the Pentagon
the latest guest post from George Leopold: The old saw in the U.S. military holds that many of its members...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Situational awareness, taken to a new level: from GPS to CPS.
This week, the American Meteorological Society and its Policy Program, under the leadership of Paul Higgins, issued the report Climate...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prajwal Kulkarni’s perspectives on science communication… and more.
In 2008, it was my privilege to meet Prajwal Kulkarni, who was then a graduate student on his way to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
J.F. Rischard’s book High Noon… ten years on
Speaking of books, in 2003 J. F. Rischard, then Vice President for Europe of the World Bank, and based in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Comprehending sea-level rise.
“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an’ all this. It’s nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it’s...
