Perspectives
Perspectives
Neutralizing Some of the Language in Global Warming Discussions
By Keith Seitter, Executive Director, AMS The topic of anthropogenic global warming has become so polarized it is now hard...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
To be relevant in 2026, NOAA must master the social graces.
Think of NOAA[1] as young. Though founded in 1970, in agency-years it’s a mere adolescent! Everyone agrees it’s precocious, bursting...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What will it take to keep NOAA as relevant in 2026 as it is today?
The past two posts, prompted by the FY2012 federal government budget rollout, and John Knauss’ challenge of twenty years ago,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
NOAA’s relevant today, but perhaps no longer so dominant.
Yesterday’s post asked the question, “Is NOAA as relevant today as it was fifteen or twenty years earlier?” and answered...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Challenges for NOAA…other federal agencies…and the rest of us
Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rolled out the President’s FY2012 agency budget at a stakeholders’ meeting. Similar...
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…Why you and I can and should get a good night’s rest, despite the 2012 budget picture.
Yesterday’s post listed reasons why the President’s budget for 2012 triggered insomnia everywhere inside the Beltway. Some lost sleep because...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
One-a.m. thoughts on the President’s FY2012 Federal Budget.
Living on another planet? Perhaps you’re unaware that today President Obama is making public his proposed 2012 federal budget. Those...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Valentine’s Day, the Real World, and the Five Languages of Love
You’re multi-lingual. Maybe you didn’t know that! But you are. It turns out, according to Gary Chapman’s best selling book...
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For whom the bell tolls
Yesterday morning I got an e-mail from a colleague and good friend, a hazards geologist. He mentioned in passing that today,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Earth Whisperer.
Back in 1998 Robert Redford produced, directed, and starred in a remarkable film entitled The Horse Whisperer. [With those three...
