Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
2011: the Mississippi flooding, the U.S. tornado season, and climate change.
Recently I was graciously invited to contribute to an online forum on possible links between the increasing frequency and severity...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tornadoes, “threat levels,” and over-warning
There are bloggers, and then there are actual-card-carrying-journalists-who-happen-to-blog. Andy Revkin is one of the finer examples of the latter, more-select...
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The Joplin tornado and St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
There’s “vulnerable,” and then there’s vulnerable. Ever wonder what it might be like to be hit by a tornado? At...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Is the climate changing? Does it matter? Here’s one way you and I can tell.
A couple of days ago, Judith Curry provided a signature-thoughtful post on her excellent blog, Climate Etc. Entitled U.S. Military...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A scary statistic.
“I meet, therefore I am.” Rene Descartes, the French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher (1596-1650, quoted during a brief interview granted...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Too Big to Fail: transboundary water conflicts hint at favorable possible evolutions for the climate-change debates
Wednesday a good friend and I were talking and the subject turned to water…and, in particular, transboundary water disputes around...
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Freshening the air…in environmental debate
Sometime back in the day (late 1960’s, early ‘70’s) I happened to pick up an issue of Consumer Reports. I...
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Colloquy is better than soliloquy…now that’s what I’m talkin’ about
The blogosphere has a lot in common with the atmosphere. In meteorology you learn early that the “atmosphere” has many...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tornadoes and airports redux
Back on April 23, I blogged on the tornado damage suffered at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. I wasn’t alone! The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
On this day in history: May 15.
Our image of Abraham Lincoln? We see our 16th president as wholly preoccupied with maintaining the Union, and the prosecution...
