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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....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
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...
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Prediction 2. Hazards will prove more dangerous and disruptive than we expect.
The tremendous success of the human race over the past century or so – our rapid population growth, increased resource...
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If Climate Isn't Stable, Are We?
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director a portion of a series of essays from the AMS Project, Living on...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Prediction 1. The future will be characterized by adverse climate shifts.
Today, let’s start with a bit of review. The last several posts have argued that: On the skin of the...
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Uncertainty: A Mathematician's Perspective
by Sean Crowell, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Oklahoma One thing we enjoy in mathematics is certainty of our knowledge....
