Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Earth (still) has a fever.
The latest IPCC report (more precisely, the policymaker summary) was released on Friday, and since then has been sharing the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Disaster resilience? What a difference ±3% can make.
LOTRW’s September 20 post suggested that if “governments are instituted among men” to secure rights to life, liberty, and the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
How cookie dough helped save lives in a Colorado town
Another guest post from George Leopold: Here’s a striking example of the return on investment when resilient communities prepare for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
75 years ago today: The New England hurricane of 1938 makes landfall.
The storm established many records and near-superlatives. It was arguably the greatest natural disaster ever to hit New England, killing...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Unalienable human rights… for people living on an angry planet
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
On the front lines… of Colorado’s Front Range
“Don’t build a town on the mountainside unless you like high stakes…” The above line is part of the refrain...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stepwise.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Professors, politics, and public policy.
Earlier today (Labor Day, September 2), Judith Curry, in her blog Climate, Etc, provided an excellent post on academic misconceptions...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
USC Gamecocks 27, UNC Tarheels 10; weather a factor.
At the tail end of last week, I spent a couple of days in South Carolina visiting my SYRBLB (pronounced...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The greening of China.
Several years back, the Outlook section of the Washington Post featured an op-ed[1] that gave four reasons why China would...
