Image: Lenticular cloud, February 13, 2022, Boulder County, Colorado Self Efficacy: Gaining Agency on Climate Change I get the occasional letter from a stranger worried about climate change. Sometimes, they say they were referred to me. Most of these letters are whether [...]
Winter is Getting Warmer: Warming Winter Syndrome One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade of changes it brings, including ice storms and rain in regions that were [...]
Stories and Scenarios for a Warming Climate 20240427: This is an evolving document. It is a working document, because I am figuring it out as I go along. One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think [...]
Should we panic over this sea surface temperature plot? Richard B. (Ricky) Rood University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Emeritus) June 20, 2023 Recently, a sea surface temperature (SST) plot similar to the one here (Figure 1 and above) has been [...]
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Image: Sun obscured by forest fire smoke. August 2020, Boulder County, Colorado Scenario Planning Collection This is a selection of materials on Scenario Planning. GLISA: Scenario Planning (Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments) GLISA’s scenario planning approach describes plausible future events and [...]
Portfolio: Richard B. (Ricky) Rood This portfolio provides examples of publications of different types. Short Stories Relics, Faultline: The troubling thoughts that come when buzzards make a home on the roof of your house. The Keeper, Foreign Service Journal: The efforts of [...]
Sunflowers after a storm. July 2021. (Summerdog Farm, Boulder County, Colorado) I remember the 1968 Soviet Union led invasion of Czechoslovakia. I watched the coverage of the invasion on a portable black and white television that sat on top of a [...]
I have a set of materials that I view as valuable for management and changing organizations. Some are serious and, perhaps, scholarly. Others are more cultural or emotional. They might, also, be life guides. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age [...]
