TitleDateDescription / Keywords (flat search)
Climate science: No time for a stacked deck20241115Problem solving, priority, time, card game, tipping point
Flooded with reality20241018Flooding, Flood Trends, Asheville, FEMA, Conspiracy, Average Return Interval
I feel the earth squish under my feet20240920Flooding, Global Floods, Warming Ocean, All Storms record precipitation
The normalizing of fire season20240823Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Fire in Michigan
How to keep your head above uncharted waters20240628Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Flooding scenarios
Leveling up in Floodtown20240517Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Flooding scenarios
Scenes from and warming climate20240426Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Framing, Dark Woods, Wilderness, Paths
Order from Disorder20240324Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Weather is Organized, Chaos
Stormy Weather20240223Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Storms as objects
Living on the edge20240126Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Edges
On the surface20231209Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Surface
Adding fuel to the fire20231027Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Fire stories
It’s time to get comfortable with complexity20230928Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Accumulation versus immediate impacts
A perfect storm of dualities and multiplicities20230825Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Temperature starts the story
‘Do not breathe’ is not a good plan20230724Wildfire, Management, Climate Change, Problem solving, Communication
And as a reasonable man20230521Godfather, Reasonable fossil fuel use, Denial, Price of carbon
The problem, and the solution, is us20230428Problem solving, Retirement, Realism, Being Honest, Political Will
Fragmented Mediocrity20230324Problem solving, Fragmentation, Sabotage, Management, Organizational Change
Who Wants to See the Future Anyway20230224Telescopes, Microscopes, Discovery, Behavior, Psychology, Uncertainty, Scientific Method
It depends on the second meeting20230127Problem solving, Second Meeting, Communication, Continuity, Sabotage, Management, Organizational Change
Stars in our eyes20221216Telescopes, Microscopes, Discovery, Behavior, Psychology, Scientific Method
You can run but you can’t hide20221013Hurricanes, Behavior, Psychology, Protect and persist, Individual versus community
The allure of cycles20220923Cycles, Letters from readers, Discipline arrogance, Logical flaws, Internal variability, denial
The heat is on20220826Mickey Mantle, State temperature records, Cherry picking, Metrics that represent climate
How good are your coping skills?20220624Framing, We have knowledge to live with a changing climate, Gaining agency, History, Being honest
Knowledge isn't only power20220520Knowing, Fear, Loss, Certainty, Uncertainty, Framing, Taking control to reduce anxiety, Being honest
"Celebrating" Earth Day20220422NSF Earth Day, Champions, Realism, Political will, expectations and management, Being honest
Feeling insecure20220325COVID more likely to set back climate change, energy, economic, national, health security trumps climate change, expectations and management, Realism
We need human learning more than machine learning20220211AI, Machine Learning, Adaptation, Weather is training us, Boulder County fire
Thanks for he heads-up20211218Nobel Physics Prize, Wind storm that burst across the mountains and the midwest
Fair weather friends at COP2620211119COP26, UN, Conference of the Parties, Analysis, Meeting Paris
Prepare to roll with the changes20211015What would I do, Adaptation, Thinking about floods, Individual versus community, protect and persist
Sweet emotion20210827Reckoning of Northwest heat and Northern Hemisphere floods, How do I cope, Psychology, Behavior, Necessary losses, being honest
Are we really talking about the weather?20210721Shock of Northwest heat and Northern Hemisphere floods, fighting fires and pumping water, new approaches to dealing with weather-related disasters, can't just react
Will the Earth be habitable in 2100?20210625Answering a reader, Conservative talk radio interview, humans are adaptable, False choice of 2030 versus "all is lost," Realism, Being honest
Reality Check20210508Letters from readers, Discipline arrogance, Consensus, Uncertainty, Basic versus applied research
The hot topic of temperature analysis20210325Letters from readers, Readers scientific analysis, Logical flaws, Ice ages, Internal variability, Things climate scientists have ignored
The eyes of Texas are on you20210226Texas ice storm, It still gets cold, politics of renewable energy, misinformation, use case
Are you experienced?20210129Trump - Biden transition, What to expect, Climate as a priority, Legislate rather then executive order
Looking back, moving forward20201217Year end review, COVID and climate, realism, compounding crises
Clean-up crew20201121Trump-Biden transition, what to expect in climate policy, what should be in climate policy
Fires in Colorado20201024Fire in Boulder Colorado, Increasing wild fires, Need to think of adaptation differently, cannot just respond, use case
Is 'normal' a thing of the past?20200925Normals and normalization, Shifting how we calculate trends, Maintaining multiple priorities, Is it healthy to re-normalize?
It starts with a downburst20200828Cedar Rapids derecho, Adaption will require thinking about building codes - the whole system, No one outcome
Doing science in public20200723Facts versus knowledge, uncertainty, uncertainty fallacy, communication
Collective soul20200625Being honest, Catastrophe?, Necessary losses, Proactivity to change institutions
It's all in the delivery20200521Michigan Biological Station (Biostation) lecture, framing, science in society, gaining control, Individual choices, collective outcomes
Anticipation, reaction, or something in between?20200422Duality, false choices, problem solving, expectations and management, models as guidance, COVID likely slow our response to climate change
Confronting our invisible enemies20200326Model-based reasoning, Models in societal response, time, exponential growth
Change starts at home20200227Time, At the start of rapid and accelerating change, We need to get real about adaptation, Time, Realism, What we do now matters for decades, urgency
Talk to me20200123Rhetoric, logic, argumentation, communications, Disinformation and Misinformation
These models are smarter than you think20191229Models, Models are built for purpose, Models as guidance, Models to manage uncertainty
Students prepare for climate summit20191127COP25, UN, Conference of the Parties, US role in COP during Trump, Local initiatives, Why have a student delegation
Hurricane Dorian and the Bahama Islands20190926Forecast challenges, Hurricanes and climate change, no one outcome
Time to act20190822Heat and floods, Variability, Echo effect
Climate Blue: An introduction20190718First column, Why write for a public audience, depression and optimism