Flooded with reality | 20241018 | Flooding, Flood Trends, Asheville, FEMA, Conspiracy, Average Return Interval |
I feel the earth squish under my feet | 20240920 | Flooding, Global Floods, Warming Ocean, All Storms record precipitation |
The normalizing of fire season | 20240823 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Fire in Michigan |
How to keep your head above uncharted waters | 20240628 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Flooding scenarios |
Leveling up in Floodtown | 20240517 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Flooding scenarios |
Scenes from and warming climate | 20240426 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Framing, Dark Woods, Wilderness, Paths |
Order from Disorder | 20240324 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Weather is Organized, Chaos |
Stormy Weather | 20240223 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Storms as objects |
Living on the edge | 20240126 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Edges |
On the surface | 20231209 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Storylines, Surface |
Adding fuel to the fire | 20231027 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Fire stories |
It’s time to get comfortable with complexity | 20230928 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Accumulation versus immediate impacts |
A perfect storm of dualities and multiplicities | 20230825 | Scenario planning, Problem Solving, Uncertainty, Complexity, Temperature starts the story |
‘Do not breathe’ is not a good plan | 20230724 | Wildfire, Management, Climate Change, Problem solving, Communication |
And as a reasonable man | 20230521 | Godfather, Reasonable fossil fuel use, Denial, Price of carbon |
The problem, and the solution, is us | 20230428 | Problem solving, Retirement, Realism, Being Honest, Political Will |
Fragmented Mediocrity | 20230324 | Problem solving, Fragmentation, Sabotage, Management, Organizational Change |
Who Wants to See the Future Anyway | 20230224 | Telescopes, Microscopes, Discovery, Behavior, Psychology, Uncertainty, Scientific Method |
It depends on the second meeting | 20230127 | Problem solving, Second Meeting, Communication, Continuity, Sabotage, Management, Organizational Change |
Stars in our eyes | 20221216 | Telescopes, Microscopes, Discovery, Behavior, Psychology, Scientific Method |
You can run but you can’t hide | 20221013 | Hurricanes, Behavior, Psychology, Protect and persist, Individual versus community |
The allure of cycles | 20220923 | Cycles, Letters from readers, Discipline arrogance, Logical flaws, Internal variability, denial |
The heat is on | 20220826 | Mickey Mantle, State temperature records, Cherry picking, Metrics that represent climate |
How good are your coping skills? | 20220624 | Framing, We have knowledge to live with a changing climate, Gaining agency, History, Being honest |
Knowledge isn't only power | 20220520 | Knowing, Fear, Loss, Certainty, Uncertainty, Framing, Taking control to reduce anxiety, Being honest |
"Celebrating" Earth Day | 20220422 | NSF Earth Day, Champions, Realism, Political will, expectations and management, Being honest |
Feeling insecure | 20220325 | COVID 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 learning | 20220211 | AI, Machine Learning, Adaptation, Weather is training us, Boulder County fire |
Thanks for he heads-up | 20211218 | Nobel Physics Prize, Wind storm that burst across the mountains and the midwest |
Fair weather friends at COP26 | 20211119 | COP26, UN, Conference of the Parties, Analysis, Meeting Paris |
Prepare to roll with the changes | 20211015 | What would I do, Adaptation, Thinking about floods, Individual versus community, protect and persist |
Sweet emotion | 20210827 | Reckoning of Northwest heat and Northern Hemisphere floods, How do I cope, Psychology, Behavior, Necessary losses, being honest |
Are we really talking about the weather? | 20210721 | Shock 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? | 20210625 | Answering a reader, Conservative talk radio interview, humans are adaptable, False choice of 2030 versus "all is lost," Realism, Being honest |
Reality Check | 20210508 | Letters from readers, Discipline arrogance, Consensus, Uncertainty, Basic versus applied research |
The hot topic of temperature analysis | 20210325 | Letters from readers, Readers scientific analysis, Logical flaws, Ice ages, Internal variability, Things climate scientists have ignored |
The eyes of Texas are on you | 20210226 | Texas ice storm, It still gets cold, politics of renewable energy, misinformation, use case |
Are you experienced? | 20210129 | Trump - Biden transition, What to expect, Climate as a priority, Legislate rather then executive order |
Looking back, moving forward | 20201217 | Year end review, COVID and climate, realism, compounding crises |
Clean-up crew | 20201121 | Trump-Biden transition, what to expect in climate policy, what should be in climate policy |
Fires in Colorado | 20201024 | Fire in Boulder Colorado, Increasing wild fires, Need to think of adaptation differently, cannot just respond, use case |
Is 'normal' a thing of the past? | 20200925 | Normals and normalization, Shifting how we calculate trends, Maintaining multiple priorities, Is it healthy to re-normalize? |
It starts with a downburst | 20200828 | Cedar Rapids derecho, Adaption will require thinking about building codes - the whole system, No one outcome |
Doing science in public | 20200723 | Facts versus knowledge, uncertainty, uncertainty fallacy, communication |
Collective soul | 20200625 | Being honest, Catastrophe?, Necessary losses, Proactivity to change institutions |
It's all in the delivery | 20200521 | Michigan Biological Station (Biostation) lecture, framing, science in society, gaining control, Individual choices, collective outcomes |
Anticipation, reaction, or something in between? | 20200422 | Duality, false choices, problem solving, expectations and management, models as guidance, COVID likely slow our response to climate change |
Confronting our invisible enemies | 20200326 | Model-based reasoning, Models in societal response, time, exponential growth |
Change starts at home | 20200227 | Time, 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 me | 20200123 | Rhetoric, logic, argumentation, communications, Disinformation and Misinformation |
These models are smarter than you think | 20191229 | Models, Models are built for purpose, Models as guidance, Models to manage uncertainty |
Students prepare for climate summit | 20191127 | COP25, UN, Conference of the Parties, US role in COP during Trump, Local initiatives, Why have a student delegation |
Hurricane Dorian and the Bahama Islands | 20190926 | Forecast challenges, Hurricanes and climate change, no one outcome |
Time to act | 20190822 | Heat and floods, Variability, Echo effect |
Climate Blue: An introduction | 20190718 | First column, Why write for a public audience, depression and optimism |