Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Progress! The Paris climate accord.
“How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress, scientists, and the subpoenas: the Prequel.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stepping back from the cliff… completing the thought.
“There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stepping back from the cliff… continued.
“…With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress, scientists, and the subpoenas – stepping back from the cliff.
“…Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Wrong! Yet again.
The concerned wife phoned her husband, who was out on the road: “Honey, be careful out there! The TV says...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Our science: protecting the public in the 21st century.
“If your science doesn’t correspond to reality, you’re going to lose lives.” – Alexander E. MacDonald AMS Summer Community Meeting...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Anthropocene primate faces a new water challenge.
In 2014 the anthropologist Clive Finlayson published a delightful little, but intellectually-rich book entitled The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Robert Mayer White, 1923-2015.
“NOAA is now positioned to advance United States in an environmentally sustainable manner. And that is the central problem of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remembering Jim Mahoney: the NAPAP years.
(This is the second part of a two-part tribute to James R. Mahoney)[1] James R. Mahoney is possibly best remembered...
