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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Earth (still) has a fever.
The latest IPCC report (more precisely, the policymaker summary) was released on Friday, and since then has been sharing the news headlines. Considering that the competing stories here in the U.S. include Syria and the pending shutdown of the federal … Continue reading
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Disaster resilience? What a difference ±3% can make.
LOTRW’s September 20 post suggested that if “governments are instituted among men” to secure rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on this violent planet of ours, then those governments ought to give some priority to building community … Continue reading
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How cookie dough helped save lives in a Colorado town
Another guest post from George Leopold: Here’s a striking example of the return on investment when resilient communities prepare for extreme weather. It all started with a cookie dough map of Lyons, Colo., a town just north of Boulder that … Continue reading
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75 years ago today: The New England hurricane of 1938 makes landfall.
The storm established many records and near-superlatives. It was arguably the greatest natural disaster ever to hit New England, killing some 800 people (and injuring that many more), destroying or damaging nearly 60,000 homes and structures, producing losses in the … Continue reading
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Unalienable human rights… for people living on an angry planet
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments … Continue reading
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On the front lines… of Colorado’s Front Range
“Don’t build a town on the mountainside unless you like high stakes…” The above line is part of the refrain from a blues number written and performed by none other than blogger Andy Revkin, following the 1995 flooding event in … Continue reading
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Stepwise.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu Page A3 of this morning’s print edition of … Continue reading
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Professors, politics, and public policy.
Earlier today (Labor Day, September 2), Judith Curry, in her blog Climate, Etc, provided an excellent post on academic misconceptions of politics and the policy process, based on an article by Richard D. French in Political Quarterly, entitled The Professors … Continue reading
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USC Gamecocks 27, UNC Tarheels 10; weather a factor.
At the tail end of last week, I spent a couple of days in South Carolina visiting my SYRBLB (pronounced “sibling,” it denotes my smarter, younger, richer, better-looking brother… the one who retired from his high management job in Bell … Continue reading
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The greening of China.
Several years back, the Outlook section of the Washington Post featured an op-ed[1] that gave four reasons why China would not likely prove to be the dominant nation for the 21st century: (1) rapid aging of the population, brought on … Continue reading
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