Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“Commerce, Education…and what’s the third one there?”
Oh, yeah…the Department of Energy. What do these three Cabinet Departments have in common? Well, for one they’re all three...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Three questions for the Committee of Twelve…and for the Congress…
…and for the rest of us as well. Have you noticed that media coverage on progress of the Committee of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
2005 YU55
Forget YouTube; for one night and day we let’s pay attention to YU55. Tonight, this “potentially harmful” asteroid will whiz...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Upon further reflection…
Here’s a little more reflection on the subject of recent posts: Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century....
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Belt and suspenders
The American Meteorological Society ran a small workshop this week on a big topic: Earth observations, science and services for...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
Dealing With a Challenging Science Policy Environment
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. Adapted from posts (here, here, here, and here) on the AMS Project, Living on...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready Nation(al Government)
Maybe you missed that 4:00 a.m. announcement[1]. Yesterday the United States government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a change...
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Be Promethean
Today we wrap up our AMS workshop on Earth Observations, Science, and Services for the 21st Century. It’s proving to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More…on Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century
A preamble… At the end of the October 31 post, I said we’d focus on unleashing private-sector productivity. But in...
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Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century
Given federal deficits and budget constraints, what Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century might most Americans support,...
