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“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to … Continue reading →

Four seismic shifts are underway that will combine to make Earth information increasingly valuable – unimaginably more valuable – over the coming two decades. Unless they don’t. Today we look at the four drivers of this increased value. Two are … Continue reading →

“A value proposition is a business or marketing statement that summarizes why a consumer should buy a product or use a service. This statement should convince a potential consumer that one particular product or service will add more value or … Continue reading →

“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” – Abraham Maslow[1] “Let people realize … Continue reading →

“In the spring a young economist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of… valuation.”  “Valuations are nothing, but Valuation is everything.” (with apologies all around, but especially to Alfred Lord Tennyson and Dwight David Eisenhower.) We’re told that today is the … Continue reading →

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower The National Research Council (NAS/NRC) is developing a research agenda to advance subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasting. Here’s their statement … Continue reading →

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Thomas Sowell Speaking of “firsts,” … Continue reading →

  Yesterday’s LOTRW post spoke to ten years of steady growth at the AMS journal Weather, Climate, and Society. But what matters most is not the age or the size… it’s the quality and breadth of the content. A sampling … Continue reading →

“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of … Continue reading →

You can and should be forgiven if you can’t hearken back to the August 17th post, “We’re Earthlings, till death do us part.” That was an eternity ago, in blog years! The post ended with the following line of thought: … Continue reading →