Monthly Archives: October 2012

Viewed narrowly, Hurricane Sandy is a success story. Start with the forecast. Americans were given a week’s heads-up that Hurricane Sandy would track north, and then, instead of veering safely out to the Atlantic, would come ashore somewhere near New … Continue reading →

Thanks to an extraordinary…perhaps historic…weather forecast, millions of Americans living along the entire length of the east-coast United States had a week to prepare for Hurricane Sandy. Those along the southern tier of states knew early on they’d feel only … Continue reading →

Imagine…if Hurricane Sandy had been forecast to go out to sea, as might have been the case as recently as a decade ago…or un-forecast entirely. Picture hundreds of thousands of people along an unprepared coastline waking up to the sound … Continue reading →

Who knew? But then, that’s why they call it a surprise. For some time now, ever since the Russians invaded Hungary and the English and French invaded Egypt on the eve of the 1956 presidential elections, the “October surprise” has … Continue reading →

“But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I (the Lord) have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death. You may say to … Continue reading →

Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain – Psalm 127:1a NIV Chances are good that many readers are familiar with this Old Testament phrase. It’s a reminder that we can do far less in our own … Continue reading →

Most weekends, Judith Curry, who blogs at Climate Etc., shares with us “a few things that caught [her] eye this past week,” under the title of The Week in Review. They’re always interesting and thought-provoking. This week in Week in … Continue reading →

We close out our short series on Lewis Fry Richardson, on the 131st anniversary of his birth. _________________________________ WWJD? What would Jesus do? Most of us are familiar with this acronym. Many people wear it on one of those yellow … Continue reading →

“Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity—in the molecular sense.”[1] We’ve touched on Richardson’s work in mathematical psychology, and his efforts to make quantitative the study … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, Andy Revkin posted on this subject on his groundbreaking blog Dot Earth. He noted the absence of any discussion of climate change in the first of the three scheduled presidential debates in the run-up to November’s election. … Continue reading →