Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Policy.
“Honesty is the best policy.” – Benjamin Franklin “I never had a policy. I just tried to do my very...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Living with extreme weather.
Folks in Norman, Oklahoma have set the table for a three-day workshop on this topic Monday-Wednesday May 18-20. Our hosts...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The value of (improved) S2S forecasts?
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Quiet conversation, anyone?
Starbucks is a great place to be by yourself and do a little private thinking at the start of the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Debating funding for geoscience and social sciences: is anyone convinced?
convince (v.) 1520s, “to overcome in argument,” from Latin convincere “to overcome decisively,” from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), +...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Climate Change in the American Christian Mind
In recent years, the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The case for the geosciences.
Recent months have seen a bit of back-and-forth between the Congress and the scientific community about the value of geosciences...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Women in weather.
Yesterday AMS and Northrop-Grumman put on a Google Hangout on Women in Weather. Their tagline? According to the National Science...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready World
Why settle for a Weather-Ready Nation? Last week’s press release from the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, reprinted here...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Disaster experts send a message from Sendai.
The UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (UN WCDRR), held at Sendai, Japan from March 14-18 has reached...
