Monthly Archives: September 2013

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →