Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Bush 41 and climate change.
George Herbert Walker Bush. The world has completed a week of mourning and celebration of a life well lived and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924-2018.
“I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Dog whistling… and the latest National Climate Assessment.
Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Real news, uncertainty, and urgency.
Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition. The ocean is the main source of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Think and act like a meteorologist: VOTE.
Back on October 17th, the Washington Post ran an article with this sobering title: Despite rampant voter enthusiasm, the reality:...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Tropical storms pummel, and bring to light, a third-world America.
“Out of sight, out of mind[1].” Most of us of a certain age are familiar with “third world” nomenclature. When...
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Real-World management? Governance is the hard part.
Transitioning from happy-go-lucky living on the Real World to managing the planet poses daunting scientific and technical challenges. But these...
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Horse whisperers…Earth whisperers.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”[1] The 21stcentury – the age we live in –...
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“Human flight” on the 21st-century Real World? 2. Think like the Wright brothers, not like Samuel Langley.
Wilbur and Orville Wright lived at a time in history when inventors of every stripe were feverishly building flying machines....
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“Human flight” on the 21st-century Real World? 1. The cockpit dialog.
Seven billion of us are co-piloting a 1.317 × 1025-lb, unpressurized, open-air planet through the hostile environment of space. You...
