Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Eavesdropping on Earth? Borrowing a page from NSA’s playbook.
Pick up any newspaper, tune in any TV news network, or surf any news website these days. You’ll be inundated...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Importance of Earth Observations, Science, and Services
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” – John Maynard Keynes The previous post suggested that to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
China: 0-for-3 when it comes to living on the real world?
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” – John Maynard Keynes The thesis of LOTRW, soon to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Healthcare resilience in the face of hazards. 3. Impressions from the AMS workshop.
It’s one year on from Sandy’s landfall and devastating impact. All along the New York and New Jersey coasts, residents...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Healthcare resilience in the face of hazards. Part 2
“A banker lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, but takes it back when it starts to rain.”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Cyclone Phailin and the U.S. national debt ceiling make landfall
Consider two planets. On planet Real World, Cyclone Phailin, the product of natural atmospheric and oceanic processes, hit the Indian...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The other health care challenge: resilience in the face of hazards
October 17-18 (this coming Thursday-Friday) the American Meteorological Society will host a workshop at AAAS headquarters in Washington DC, entitled ...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Keeping our cool on a warming planet
another guest post from George Leopold… We finally threw in the towel during a recent East Coast heat wave, closed...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Civil (-servant) disobedience, circa 2013
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
You’re essential.
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very...
