the latest guest post from George Leopold: The old saw in the U.S. military holds that many of its members don’t care much about climate change but weather affects everything it does. As the Arctic region’s environment changes, and with … Continue reading →

This week, the American Meteorological Society and its Policy Program, under the leadership of Paul Higgins, issued the report Climate Information Needs for Financial Decisionmaking, summarizing its June workshop by the same name. The report looks ahead to a future … Continue reading →

In 2008, it was my privilege to meet Prajwal Kulkarni, who was then a graduate student on his way to a Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University, where he was studying space plasma physics. He participated in that year’s … Continue reading →

Speaking of books, in 2003 J. F. Rischard, then Vice President for Europe of the World Bank, and based in Paris, wrote and published High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. We’re halfway to his deadline. How … Continue reading →

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an’ all this. It’s nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it’s because there’s too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. … Continue reading →

Pick up any newspaper, tune in any TV news network, or surf any news website these days. You’ll be inundated  with breathless reports on how the National Security Agency (NSA) has been hoovering up and storing massive amounts of the … Continue reading →

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” – John Maynard Keynes The previous post suggested that to live well on the real world requires that all seven billion of us solve, simultaneously, three problems: our relationship with … Continue reading →

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” – John Maynard Keynes The thesis of LOTRW, soon to be available in book form as well as on these  blogposts, is that successfully living on the real world requires … Continue reading →