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The President's Climate Speech
by Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program Director In June, President Obama gave a long-anticipated speech laying out his vision for...
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At the Annual Partners Meeting
Each year the National Weather Service and myriad partners meet for a face-to-face, high-level look at their ongoing collaboration. The...
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Former Republican EPA Administrators support the Obama Climate Action Plan…
…and suggest we can do more. On August 1, the New York Times ran an opinion piece entitled A Republican...
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Weather drones serve as flying test beds for new sensors
The latest in George Leopold’s guest series on the use of drone aircraft for Earth observations, science, and services… NASA...
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A new AMS policy statement on space weather.
In July, the American Meteorological Society’s Council adopted a new policy statement on space weather. It’s worth a read in...
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Building the legitimacy of ensemble” approaches to policy formulation.
Tuesday’s post made a case for what might be called “ensemble” approaches to policy formulation. The idea is borrowed from...
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Moving Forward, Again, on a National Network of Networks
by James Stalker, President & CEO, RESPR, Inc. Since my last blog in The Front Page a little over a...
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Further reflection on projected economic consequences of Arctic methane release
George Leopold’s guest post on this topic builds on a paper by Whiteman, Hope and Wadhams, published online yesterday. Their...
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Avoiding a ‘methane pulse’ in the Arctic
Another guest post from George Leopold: An increasingly likely “methane pulse” that would result from the warming of Arctic permafrost...
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“Ensemble” approaches work for weather forecasting. Why not for policy formulation?
This graphic, from Mike Smith’s blog, may look like a jumble to you. But to meteorologists, it’s a thing of...
