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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Where greenhouse gases come from
Hat tip to Grist and @SuzanneWaldman. Click image for a close-up.
Posted in chemistry, climate, economics, education, environment
Silence Since March 2009
No wonder former Energy Secretary Steven Chu left the Obama administration. This story was recently re-confirmed. (Hat tip to Climate Progress.)
Posted in climate, education, environment
Tagged dambable
Totally awesome history of climate modeling by Steve Easterbrook, University of Utah
Professor Steve Easterbrook of the University of Utah produced a totally awesome history of climate modeling at Prezi. This takes the viewer through the history of climate models, seeing its roots in the 19th century, and showing how the United … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
John Carlos Baez on “Energy and the Environment — What Physicists Can Do”
I hadn’t had a chance to listen to Professor Baez’s talk until now, having learned about it from his blog which is really excellent. (I don’t know how he manages to write so much good stuff per week.) In addition … Continue reading
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, oceanography, physics, rationality, reasonableness, science
Martin Wolf and John Authers on the Very Long View: The Financial Times
http://video.ft.com/v/2396762559001/Wolf-on-averting-climate-chaos I am amazed and heartened that a publication which is devoted to financial, economic, and investment matters has devoted so much copy to climate disruption.
Posted in climate, economics, environment, geophysics, investing, oceanography, politics, rationality, statistics
‘The Human Role in Climate Change’
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, physics, science
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RAVAN to constrain solar reflection contributions of aerosols and clouds
Dr Dyrud’s team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has won a space on CubeSat for a radiometer that will provide direct measurements of the amount of solar energy reflected to space, and the amount of infrared radiation getting through … Continue reading
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, science
Fossil fuel divestment and the moral imperative for religious communities
Mr and Ms member of religious communities: Tell us how, in the face of the climate emergency, you are responding to this fundamental moral and religious challenge.
Posted in climate, compassion, geophysics, reasonableness, science, statistics, Unitarian Universalism
Slamming the climate system
This is from a lecture in San Francisco by Dr Emily Shuckburgh earlier this year.
Posted in climate, education, environment, geophysics, maths, oceanography, physics, rationality, reasonableness, science, statistics
Tagged climate, climate disruption
Prof Mark Berliner on ‘Climate Change, Uncertainty & Communication’
Professor Mark Berliner addresses how to communicate climate change in the context of risk and uncertainty. I wish I could hot link the video here, but there is no “share” at the site, so I can only provide the link.
Posted in climate, economics, rationality, reasonableness, science, statistics
Tagged climate, risk, science, uncertainty
My favorite definitions from Professor Andrew Gelman
Professor Gelman has a nice list of statistical definitions, educational like nearly everything he does or writes: The Folk Theorem: When you have computational problems, often there’s a problem with your model. Second-Order Availability Bias: Generalizing from correlations you see … Continue reading
Posted in education, maths, notes, rationality, statistics
Tagged fallacies, statistics
“… Guns, Murders, Life, Death, and Ignorance in Contemporary America”
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall … Continue reading
Posted in compassion, education, politics, rationality, reasonableness, statistics, Unitarian Universalism
Extreme weather is already expensive
The Center for American Progress released a report this week documenting the already high burden on the federal till of recent extreme weather. (Hat tip to The Washington Post for the pointer.) This is already working out to an average … Continue reading
Posted in climate, economics, environment, politics, science
