Author Archives: William Hooke

If ever a single individual understood this subject and its implications for late 20th-century mankind it was Peter Drucker. He wrote about this early and often, using varying nomenclature: consider, for example, his 1980 book, Managing in Turbulent Times. The … Continue reading →

… that we face locally, everywhere… and globally. In a nutshell, here’s the unending task of living on the real world. We must simultaneously, everywhere, at every moment, and for extended periods, master the threefold job of (1) sipping from … Continue reading →

Mere hours ago, the American Institute of Physics announced that the American Meteorological Society has just become its newest member. The press release cites advantages to members of both organizations, and there’ll be plenty. But they’ll be dwarfed by the … Continue reading →

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 →