Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- Earle Wilson
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- What If
- 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.
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- 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
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- Karl Broman
- Prediction vs Forecasting: Knaub “Unfortunately, ‘prediction,’ such as used in model-based survey estimation, is a term that is often subsumed under the term ‘forecasting,’ but here we show why it is important not to confuse these two terms.”
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- 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/.
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- Gavin Simpson
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- Awkward Botany
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- All about models
- Risk and Well-Being
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- All about ENSO, and lunar tides (Paul Pukite) Historically, ENSO has been explained in terms of winds. But recently — and Dr Paul Pukite has insisted upon this for a long time — the oscillation of ENSO has been explained as a large-scale slosh due to lunar tidal forcing.
- Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Number Cruncher Politics
- James' Empty Blog
- Lenny Smith's CHAOS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION This is a PDF version of Lenny Smith’s book of the same title, also available from Amazon.com
- Ted Dunning
- OOI Data Nuggets OOI Ocean Data Lab: The Data Nuggets
- Dr James Spall's SPSA
- Pat's blog While it is described as “The mathematical (and other) thoughts of a (now retired) math teacher”, this is false humility, as it chronicles the present and past life and times of mathematicians in their context. Recommended.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Slice Sampling
- Mertonian norms
- Tim Harford's “More or Less'' Tim Harford explains – and sometimes debunks – the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
- Rasmus Bååth's Research Blog Bayesian statistics and data analysis
- 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
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
climate change
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- 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
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- Skeptical Science
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- 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.
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- 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
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Reanalyses.org
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- Nick Bower's "Scared Scientists"
- Simple models of climate change
- Earth System Models
- Sea Change Boston
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
- "Betting strategies on fluctuations in the transient response of greenhouse warming" By Risbey, Lewandowsky, Hunter, Monselesan: Betting against climate change on durations of 15+ years is no longer a rational proposition.
- An open letter to Steve Levitt
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- Climate model projections versus observations
- Social Cost of Carbon
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- Klaus Lackner (ASU), Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) Capturing CO2 from air at scale
- "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.
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- David Appell's early climate science
- Risk and Well-Being
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- Grid parity map for Solar PV in United States
- Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
- Climate Change: A health emergency … New England Journal of Medicine Caren G. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., and Regina C. LaRocque, M.D., M.P.H., January 17, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019; 380:209-211 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1817067
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- "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.
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- 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.
- "A field guide to the climate clowns"
- Jacobson WWS literature index
Archives
Jan Galkowski
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Maths and Science 2013: Reaction to Wilson and Frenkel
Famous Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson wrote a Wall Street Journal essay in April of this year downplaying the need to learn maths for scientists. I suppose he wanted to start a lively conversation about the matter, but it it … Continue reading
Posted in education, mathematics, maths, rationality, reasonableness, science, statistics
Tagged Frenkel, Wilson
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Lotka-Volterra systems and predator-prey relationships
Lotka-Volterra systems are one of the oldest and most fundamental mathematical renditions of ecological problems. They are typically illustrated with predator-prey relationships, but I was introduced to them dealing with problems of competition for space by plants in niche ecological … Continue reading
Posted in biology, ecology, mathematics, maths, physics, science
Tagged Lotka-Volterra
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November 2013 climate anomalies
Posted in climate, climate education, environment, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, science
Tagged how we doin'
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How black body physics and radiation equilibrium is crucial to semiconductor operation: links
There was some skepticism expressed regarding my claim that black body radiation equilibrium physics used to argue the inevitability of climate change in a world having higher greenhouse gas concentrations (per Arrhenius) had something crucial to do with the operation … Continue reading
Posted in climate, climate education, engineering, physics, science
Tagged climate change, semiconductors
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Who is Bankrolling the Climate Change Counter-Movement?
I was and am working through Brulle’s study, but Professor Baez has this excellent summary at his blog, and if I have anything further to say after I digest Brulle’s impressive work, I’ll probably post it there.
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JAGS for finding Highs and Lows in a week of Wikipedia accesses
I’ve been learning how to use JAGS for Bayesian hierarchical modeling, moved by the great teaching of John Kruschke, Peter Congdon, Andrew Gelman, and many others. So, I went on to solve a problem with JAGS (“Just Another Gibbs Sampler”). … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian, Internet, statistics, stochastic algorithms
Tagged stats.grok.se, Wikipedia
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On Education, and Lack of Respect for It
Posted in citizenship, civilization, education, politics, rationality, reasonableness
Tagged New York Times, Wild Weather Dan
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Commenting Policy
Comments which are on subject, generously defined, will be accepted. Any comment which disparages one or more individuals or one or more organizations will not be approved. I may accept comments tentatively, but if managing comments from a particular contributor … Continue reading
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Climate Change: The State of the Science, 2013, IPCC
Posted in climate, climate education, environment, politics, science
Tagged IPCC, IPCC 2013
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postdoc position in Bayesian Climate Uncertainty Modeling
Climate Uncertainty Quantification Postdoc Where You Will Work Located in northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. LANL enhances national security by ensuring the safety … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian, climate, environment, geophysics, mathematics, maths, meteorology, physics, statistics, stochastic algorithms
Tagged climate uncertainty, postdoc, statistics
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“LONG CHOICES: On Climate and Being Carbon Dioxide”, a lecture
LONG CHOICES: On Climate and Being Carbon Dioxide How does the Earth surface stay warm at night? How much carbon have people added to our atmosphere? How long does it remain there? What is this doing to Earth’s climate? Why? … Continue reading
Correlation, causation, and coupled pairs of differential equations
An aspect of paleoclimate evidence to which Professor Jennifer Francis alludes in her recent report on Arctic amplification is the close mutual modeling which Earth surface temperature and carbon dioxide concentration exhibit during the recent geologic past. Since relative timings … Continue reading
Jennifer Francis fights back: Arctic amplification
Jennifer Francis, Quihong Tang, and Xuejun Zhang have a new paper in Nature Climate Change, titled “Extreme summer weather in northern mid-latitudes linked to a vanishing cryosphere”. Dr Francis has argued eloquently that either the diminished cryosphere or the energy balancing mechanisms … Continue reading
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Nice comment by Pete Dunkelberg
I like this comment by Pete Dunkelberg over on a post at RealClimate very much: “Communicate by starting with the bottom line. “It is really happening and we know why. “‘[U]ncertainty’ means the range in how bad it will get how soon. … Continue reading
Posted in climate, climate education, engineering, environment, geoengineering, geophysics, meteorology, rationality, reasonableness, science
Tagged what to do
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How about that …
New paper: A. Kleidon, M. Renner, “A simple explanation for the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to surface temperature and solar radiation and its implications for global climate change”, Earth System Dynamics, 4, 455-465, 2013, open access. I have not yet read it thouroughly, … Continue reading
World Ocean Radio
I sometimes wish my UU community would understand the following: We are not living in reality; if so, we would not enable delusion. We are not being practical; if so, we would assure that our needs would be sustained for … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, biology, climate, climate education, ecology, environment, oceanography, reasonableness, science
Tagged anthropocentrism
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