Monthly Archives: November 2011

Living on the Real World? We’d better have a plan for extremes.

Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report on climate change and disasters that has been years in the making. It has a lengthy but descriptive title: Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and … Continue reading

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Communication researchers and meteorologists talk about…

…the weather. Well, what did you expect? If, as Mark Twain says, everyone talks about the weather, then that must necessarily include the National Communication Association and the American Meteorological Society, right? And talk about the weather they did, at … Continue reading

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Where creationists and evolutionists might find common ground.

Whimsy alert. What follows is not even junk science…just a thought for the day, prompted by the National Communication Association meetings getting underway here in New Orleans. This year, they’ve invited a few meteorologists, and we’ve done for them and … Continue reading

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Talk to me (please).

Sunday Judith Curry blogged on public engagement on climate change. She’s  moved on (of course!) to other topics. Difficult for the rest of us to keep up! But the topic is intriguing, especially on the eve of the National Communication … Continue reading

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Living on the Real World…with the emphasis on “on”

Today Andy Revkin’s blog offers a fascinating and beautiful five-minute video of the Earth’s surface, taken from the vantage point of the International Space Station. Andy provides more background.  Astronauts have seen this up close and personal. As for the … Continue reading

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Voice

“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth.”                                                                                         – attributed to Albert Einstein The … Continue reading

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The Paterno Path

A major tragedy has come to light this week. But the tragedy itself has been unfolding and developing and growing in a heartbreaking way for more than a decade. Its roots most likely lie even deeper and go back even … Continue reading

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“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 slated for elimination if one of the Presidential aspirants has his way…and if he can remember where he put his … Continue reading

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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 Twelve is ramping up?  We can likely expect more over coming days and weeks. You shouldn’t envy those folks! They … Continue reading

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2005 YU55

Forget YouTube; for one night and day we let’s pay attention to YU55. Tonight, this “potentially harmful” asteroid will whiz within a whisker of the Earth – a mere 200,000 miles distant – at a speed of some 30,000 mph. … Continue reading

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