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Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Honesty. After all these years, still the best policy
Friday’s post introduced the notion of policy. A policy is a decision – but not a single decision. It’s a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Real World? Might be broken. Where’s that toolkit?
Let’s take stock. We face five major challenges: – (unfavorable) climate variability – natural hazards – unintended environmental consequences stemming...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Wicked problems.
The future’s problems – at least the ones that matter – are wicked. Today’s young people use this word for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tackling the future? It’s more than just facing our problems.
Once on a plane flight from DC to Raleigh-Durham, I happened to sit next to an associate dean for minority...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tackling the future.
Years ago, when I was in high school, football players in western Pennsylvania industrial towns didn’t wear face masks. (Talk...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 5. In the future, command-and-control top-down decisions and actions will be increasingly ineffective.
A few days have passed since the last post. In part this is because my wife and I took some...
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Walking a Fine Hydrologic Line
by Robert V. Sobczak, National Park Service, Big Cypress National Preserve. Reposted from his blog, The South Florida Watershed Journal....
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Prediction 4. We will face declining margins and greater scarcity.
Sure, the human race is on a roll. But can we keep it up? In my life I’ve run a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 3. The future will be punctuated by acute, highly-localized pollution episodes.
Love Canal dioxins. The Minamata mercury spill. PG&E’s leak of Chromium VI into Hinkley, CA groundwater. DDT. PCB’s. Other endocrine...
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Nowcasts: Forecasting's Achilles Heel
by Cliff Mass, University of Washington Adapted from a post from this weekend on Cliff Mass Weather Blog. On Saturday...
