Perspectives
Perspectives
Beyond the Forecast: National Heat Safety Week Helps You Prepare for a Heat-Resilient Summer
Heat is one of the deadliest weather hazards globally, and heat safety is a critical intersection of atmospheric science and...
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It’s Time for National Meteorologists Day
Meteorologists deserve a day grounded in science—not tradition by default.
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International Weather Data Sharing in an AI-Enabled World
As forecasts grow more accurate and more useful to decision-makers, we need to give their ethical and moral dimensions more attention.
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Craig Venter, and How Multiple, Parallel Paths Accelerate Science and Technology
The Human Genome Project is one example of how competition and democracy in science favor good outcomes—a lesson also applicable to meteorology.
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Support for Science
Science in America has fallen on hard times, but there is a path to broadening public support for science and making that support more robust.
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Eye of the Storm: Inside San Diego’s Tropical Cyclone Summit
Attendees from the UK Met Office discuss their experience at the AMS Hurricanes Conference, advances in AI forecasting, and the how climate change is affecting hurricane impacts.
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You Can’t Spell “Climate” Without “Lima”: Props to the Lima Bean
Why should the weather, water, and climate community, care about the lima bean? It turns out, the lima bean is a climate-resistant crop.
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How Civilization Itself Will Die
Events of recent months have provided little reason for cheer, but there is some good news: Although we can only buy time, we can potentially buy immense amounts of it.
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Living on the Real World—Origins (Part 2)
After 15 years and over 1,000 posts on a stand-alone platform before moving to Headlines, it seems appropriate to run a few posts on LOTRW’s origins.
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Living on the Real World? Entropy Is the Real Enemy.
Today’s world would do well to focus on entropy, and how to tame it.
