Perspectives
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Public-private partnerships and innovation.
Two weeks ago, Andy Miller of our group here in the AMS Policy Program DC office suggested we should all give a...
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Reflections on Hurricane Florence…human nature…and the Ulysses pact.
Is it just me? Or are hurricane forecasts and the resulting media coverage of hurricanes improving? Some subjective impressions: Forecasts,...
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Partisan (?) science continued.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where...
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New from Impact-based Decision Support (IDSS): The “food desert” is also hot.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care...
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Meteorologists celebrate Labor Day – and serve the world.
“Without labor, nothing prospers.”– Sophocles “Nothing will work unless you do.”– Maya Angelou A day off is a good thing....
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To protect ecosystem services, front-load investment in environmental intelligence.
Meteorologists aren’t alone in making forecasts. Ecologists make them too. One such recent forecast suggests that without major reductions in greenhouse...
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The Impact-based Decision Support System (IDSS) that will someday matter most? It may be ecological.
Many LOTRW readers are familiar with IDSS; others may not be. Here’s some background from the NWS website: Timely and relevant...
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The American Soul (and yours and mine): Closer to King-of-the-Hill? Or the Herndon Climb? And where do meteorologists fit in?
Okay, okay. So it’s a long title. Today’s LOTRW post is the product of insomnia (writing started around 2 am). A...
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Meteorology and the resilience movement
In the LOTRW fine print you can find an invitation to submit guest posts. Over the eight years only a handful...
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Could “science” have morphed into a word that divides us?
The previous LOTRW post dealt with the struggles of scientists – of every stripe – to go beyond the boundaries...
