Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
- What If
- Musings on Quantitative Paleoecology Quantitative methods and palaeoenvironments.
- Number Cruncher Politics
- American Statistical Association
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- 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”
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- Mertonian norms
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- 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/.
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- Professor David Draper
- Gabriel's staircase
- GeoEnergy Math Prof Paul Pukite’s Web site devoted to energy derived from geological and geophysical processes and categorized according to its originating source.
- Mike Bloomberg, 2020 He can get progress on climate done, has the means and experts to counter the Trump and Republican digital disinformation machine, and has the experience, knowledge, and depth of experience to achieve and unify.
- Slice Sampling
- Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- Karl Broman
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- Earle Wilson
- 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
- "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.
- Awkward Botany
- OOI Data Nuggets OOI Ocean Data Lab: The Data Nuggets
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
- Gavin Simpson
- Ted Dunning
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- Mark Berliner's video lecture "Bayesian mechanistic-statistical modeling with examples in geophysical settings"
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- Darren Wilkinson's introduction to ABC Darren Wilkinson’s introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (“ABC”). See also his post about summary statistics for ABC https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/summary-stats-for-abc/
- London Review of Books
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
climate change
- "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.
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- 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
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- weather blocking patterns
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Sea Change Boston
- Simple models of climate change
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- The Sunlight Economy
- Warming slowdown discussion
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Skeptical Science
- AIP's history of global warming science: impacts The American Institute of Physics has a fine history of the science of climate change. This link summarizes the history of impacts of climate change.
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- And Then There's Physics
- Climate model projections versus observations
- The great Michael Osborne's latest opinions Michael Osborne is a genius operative and champion of solar energy. I have learned never to disregard ANYTHING he says. He is mentor of Karl Ragabo, and the genius instigator of the Texas renewable energy miracle.
- “The discovery of global warming'' (American Institute of Physics)
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
- Risk and Well-Being
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- 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
- Isaac Held's blog In the spirit of Ray Pierrehumbert’s “big ideas come from small models” in his textbook, PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY CLIMATE, Dr Held presents quantitative essays regarding one feature or another of the Earth’s climate and weather system.
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- RealClimate
- Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
- 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
Archives
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Steve Carson’s Atmospheric Radiation
I stumbled across Steve Carson’s wonderfully detailed and expository blog on atmospheric radiation and energy transfer effects this morning while googling something about Grant Petty’s textbook, A First Course in Atmospheric Radiation, something I’ve challenged myself to make a serious … Continue reading
Posted in climate, climate education, education, environment, geophysics, oceanography, physics, reasonableness, science
Tagged atmospheric radiation
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Trenberth, Fasullo, Kiehl, 2009: Earth’s global energy budget
Reference: K. E. Trenberth, J. T. Fasullo, J. Kiehl, “Earth’s global energy budget”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 311–323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2634.1
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, physics, science, statistics
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More than you ever wanted to know about carbon dioxide
Bob Henson conveys key features of carbon dioxide at the recent crossing of a measurement series past the 400 parts-per-million point. Hat tip to the ever interesting Wild Weather Dan, Dr Dan Satterfield, for the link. Incidentally, the “667 per … Continue reading
Posted in chemistry, climate, environment, geophysics, physics, science
Tagged anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption
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The Great, Late Professor Stephen Schneider
Posted in atheism, climate, environment, geophysics, maths, oceanography, physics, politics, rationality, science, statistics
Tagged climate, climate disruption, greenhouse gases, the atmosphere as a sewer
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Powerful and Proper Time Series Statistics
I hadn’t gotten around to reading Mark Richardson’s “New study by Skeptical Science author finds 100% of atmospheric CO2 rise is man-made” until this afternoon. I find its import, along with fellow commentators Masters and Benestad, to be on the … Continue reading
Carbon Is Forever (*)
The author of Global Warming — Understanding the Forecast, Professor David Archer, also the excellent teacher of the University of Chicago Open Climate 101 course, teamed with others, in 2008, to study and explain the longevity of CO2 in atmosphere. … Continue reading
Posted in chemistry, climate, environment, geophysics, oceanography, physics
Tagged climate, environment, fossil fuels, geophysics, policy
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A “warming plateau”?
There’s was an article in The New York Times yesterday titled “What to make of a warming plateau”. In addition to there being no Comments available there, I find the article annoying, since I see no evidence that there is … Continue reading
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, maths, oceanography, physics, science, statistics
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The 2013 story begins: Whiplash
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Tagged climate, climate disruption, environment, geophysics
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