Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- Number Cruncher Politics
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on how businesses can help our collective environmental mess Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started.
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- GeoEnergy Math Prof Paul Pukite’s Web site devoted to energy derived from geological and geophysical processes and categorized according to its originating source.
- All about Sankey diagrams
- Logistic curves in market disruption From DollarsPerBBL, about logistic or S-curves as models of product take-up rather than exponentials, with notes on EVs
- NCAR AtmosNews
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- Earle Wilson
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- The Alliance for Securing Democracy dashboard
- London Review of Books
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Mertonian norms
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- "The Expert"
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- What If
- In Monte Carlo We Trust The statistics blog of Matt Asher, actually called the “Probability and Statistics Blog”, but his subtitle is much more appealing. Asher has a Manifesto at http://www.statisticsblog.com/manifesto/.
- Mark Berliner's video lecture "Bayesian mechanistic-statistical modeling with examples in geophysical settings"
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Why "naive Bayes" is not Bayesian Explains why the so-called “naive Bayes” classifier is not Bayesian. The setup is okay, but estimating probabilities by doing relative frequencies instead of using Dirichlet conjugate priors or integration strays from The Path.
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Label Noise
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model Five Thirty Eight’s take on why pandemic modeling is so difficult
- Higgs from AIR describing NAO and EA Stephanie Higgs from AIR Worldwide gives a nice description of NAO and EA in the context of discussing “The Geographic Impact of Climate Signals on European Winter Storms”
- Ted Dunning
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- Simon Wood's must-read paper on dynamic modeling of complex systems I highlighted Professor Wood’s paper in https://hypergeometric.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/struggling-with-problems-already-attacked/
- American Statistical Association
- Professor David Draper
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Harvard's Project Implicit
climate change
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Model state level energy policy for New Englad Bob Massie’s proposed energy policy for Massachusetts, an admirable model for energy policy anywhere in New England
- Solar Gardens Community Power
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- weather blocking patterns
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- "Warming Slowdown?" (part 2 of 2) The idea of a global warming slowdown or hiatus is critically examined, emphasizing the literature, the datasets, and means and methods for telling such. The second part.
- RealClimate
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- Climate model projections versus observations
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- Risk and Well-Being
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- Mathematics and Climate Research Network The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) engages mathematicians to collaborating on the cryosphere, conceptual model validation, data assimilation, the electric grid, food systems, nonsmooth systems, paleoclimate, resilience, tipping points.
- CLIMATE ADAM Previously from the Science news staff at the podcast of Nature (“Nature Podcast”), the journal, now on YouTube, encouraging climate action through climate comedy.
- Steve Easterbrook's excellent climate blog: See his "The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet?" for example Heavy on data and computation, Easterbrook is a CS prof at UToronto, but is clearly familiar with climate science. I like his “The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet” very much.
- World Weather Attribution
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- Climate change: Evidence and causes A project of the UK Royal Society: (1) Answers to key questions, (2) evidence and causes, and (3) a short guide to climate science
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index report The annual assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the radiative forcing from constituent atmospheric greenhouse gases
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- The beach boondoggle Prof Rob Young on how owners of beach property are socializing their risks at costs to all of us, not the least being it seems coastal damage is less than it actually is
- Social Cost of Carbon
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- "Warming Slowdown?" (part 1 of 2) The idea of a global warming slowdown or hiatus is critically examined, emphasizing the literature, the datasets, and means and methods for telling such. In two parts.
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- Simple models of climate change
- Paul Beckwith Professor Beckwith is, in my book, one of the most insightful and analytical observers on climate I know. I highly recommend his blog, and his other informational products.
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- An open letter to Steve Levitt
- "Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (Jacobson, Delucchi, Cameron, et al) Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the greatest problems facing humanity. To address these problems, we develop Green New Deal energy roadmaps for 143 countries.
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- And Then There's Physics
- Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
- The Sunlight Economy
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Spectra Energy exposed
- Ice and Snow
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
Archives
Jan Galkowski
Tamino On The Heat
Link to Tamino’s post. Sorry I missed it before.
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Rohde, Calvert, Hausfather: “A 0.25° Global Gridded Temperature Data Set for Climate Monitoring”
Robert A. Rohde [1], Bruce Calvert[1], Zeke Hausfather [1, 2]
[1] Berkeley Earth, Berkeley, California, USA.
[2] Stripe, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Tagged anthropogenic global warming, climate change, geophysics
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“World’s Worst Photographer”
All taken using a smartphone.
Will be exhibited in London in September 2026, as “Iceland by the World’s Worst Photographer”.
“No, we’re not”
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So much for U.S. leadership in Science and Engineering
Discouraging graduate students from other countries.
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“record warm 2026”
From Prof Zeke Hausfather of Berkeley Earth:
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Professor Jeff Galkowski won a Whitehead Prize this year
Jeff is a professor at University College London.
What the Whitehead Prize is all about.
Jeff’s citation.
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Tagged mathematics, Whitehead Prize
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From TJ on the 250th
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Importance of NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative
In announcing its decision to begin removing the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) deep-sea infrastructure, the National Science Foundation inaccurately cited a 2025 National Academies report on the future of ocean science. The committee that wrote the peer-reviewed report said the importance of investing in ocean-observing infrastructure and technology, such as OOI, for better understanding of the oceans and their relationship to human well-being cannot be overstressed.
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The story of RCP 8.5
What’s there to know about RCP 8.5 by Climate Adam.
“Estonia Warns European Allies Against Direct Talks With Russia”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-16/estonia-warns-european-allies-against-direct-talks-with-russia: Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna.
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Dr Des Callaghan’s “Bryophytes around the world”
Dr Callaghan is a superb bryophyte photographer.
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Entire NSF National Science Board fired by Donald Trump
More moves to make himself remembered in history, no doubt.
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The Climate Brink
I follow The Climate Brink carefully because Dr Dressler always has something useful to say, and because I often learn something reading him.
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from Canada PM Mark Carney
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said in Davos this year that the longtime U.S.-led, rules-based system was rupturing, and that middle powers like Canada had to diversify their partnerships if they hoped to survive. “The old order is not coming back,” he stated. “We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
From the New York Times.
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thanks DT for making the case for solar and EVs and NOT oil
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Go EVs!
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2026 March 14 [J 073.87] “Pi Day”
Geographic coordinates N42.227, W71.230, Westwood, MA, USA
Rare and hard to find 1937-1938
https://667-per-cm.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ChronicaBryophyta-1938.pdf is a PDF of 1938 paper ‘A YEAR-BOOK Devoted to the Study), of Mosses and Hepatics</a> by Fr. VERDOORN, Volume X, 1937, published by the Chronica Botanica Company, Leiden.
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