Perspectives
In History
Deadly Weather During the Race to the South Pole
The Norwegian and British Antarctic expeditions to the South Pole are often regarded as the height of the heroic age...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
We need a geo-civics.
“Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. The term derives from the Latin word...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remedial reading. April Lawson’s essay on building trust across the political divide.
You’ll want to read her absolutely brilliant and uplifting 2021 article. But first please indulge a bit of LOTRW backstory....
In History
How the First Weather “Computers” Changed World War II
Behind the bloody beaches of D-Day and the deathly bloom of mushroom clouds in the bright desert, behind supercomputers and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Does COP-26 have an Achilles heel? It could be a lack of the needed workforce.
This past week and over the next, those worldwide who are alarmed (and many of the merely concerned) by climate...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Economists channel their inner meteorologist.
The October 23-29 print edition of The Economist features a cover story entitled Instant Economics: the real time revolution. The...
In History
How Ancient Greece Created Our Climate Zones
What do we plant? What do we wear? What weather hazards do we prepare for? Climate classifications make it easier...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stream-of-consciousness: flowing from remembering Francis Bretherton, to end-use climate assessment, to Paul Robeson.
stream of consciousness: a narrative mode or method that attempts “to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which [sic] pass through the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Francis Bretherton, 1935-2021
The Earth sciences community lost one of its most luminous, influential lights on June 27th, with the passing of Francis...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tooth, Tail, and Territory? Relationships among the three are as vital to innovation as they are to military conflict
[a great societal] “challenge, a development problem, is the widening gap between advancing scientific knowledge and technology and society’s ability to...
