This would not occur if the natural gas had been assigned a stiff Carbon Tax.
Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Slice Sampling
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 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
- What If
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- The Alliance for Securing Democracy dashboard
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
- 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.”
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- 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.
- 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.
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- Beautiful Weeds of New York City
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Flettner Rotor Bruce Yeany introduces the Flettner Rotor and related science
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- 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.
- Karl Broman
- Rasmus Bååth's Research Blog Bayesian statistics and data analysis
- "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.
- 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/.
- American Statistical Association
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- 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”
- James' Empty Blog
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Hermann Scheer Hermann Scheer was a visionary, a major guy, who thought deep thoughts about energy, and its implications for humanity’s relationship with physical reality
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- Gabriel's staircase
- Mertonian norms
- Gavin Simpson
- NCAR AtmosNews
- 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
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Musings on Quantitative Paleoecology Quantitative methods and palaeoenvironments.
- OOI Data Nuggets OOI Ocean Data Lab: The Data Nuggets
climate change
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
- US$165/tonne CO2: Sweden Sweden has a Carbon Dioxide tax of US$165 per tonne at present. CO2 tax was imposed in 1991. GDP has grown 60%.
- 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.
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- "When Did Global Warming Stop" Doc Snow’s treatment of the denier claim that there’s been no warming for the most recent N years. (See http://hubpages.com/@doc-snow for more on him.)
- And Then There's Physics
- 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
- MIT's Climate Primer
- SolarLove
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- "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.
- Risk and Well-Being
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
- Earth System Models
- Tamino's Open Mind Open Mind: A statistical look at climate, its science, and at science denial
- World Weather Attribution
- Rabett Run Incisive analysis of climate science versus deliberate distraction
- 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.
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- "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.
- RealClimate
- Ice and Snow
- Climate model projections versus observations
- 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.
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
- The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
- Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
- 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
- Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- 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.
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- On Thomas Edison and Solar Electric Power
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- Warming slowdown discussion
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, monitored by The Carbon Project
- "Climate science is setttled enough"
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Simple models of climate change
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Jan Galkowski
ecoquant
I love the environmental theme you have going on in your blog, I’m trying to promote mine. If you don’t mind, would you mind sharing it if I do the same for you?
EarthGuard97: It will depend upon the theme. I will not agree to mutually promote. I don’t blog for any kind of promotional purpose, nor do I blog to advocate a specific cause. I blog to convey science and climate mitigation policy. Occasionally I’ll make a post about some random topic that interests me, as I did regarding the Disney post.
So, I’ll look at your blog, and if I see something worth recommending, I will. But I gotta say, while your blog is good, it is not really aligned with my own themes.
My blog focuses on current events, social and environmental concepts and thoughts such as the modern existence of slavery and racism, Rachel Dolezal formerly of NAACP and her situation, etc.
Yes, as I said, those issues aren’t terribly central to my concerns.
Indeed, a I perceive problems with addressing climate change solutions and policy from a progressive political viewpoint is that these get wrapped up with other progressive agenda items, and packaged, and thus are unacceptable to some conservatives. For climate, this tends to occur with ideas about climate justice for example.
Now, I know that people of color and the poor are quite likely to be the most affected by the ramifications of climate change, and already are. And they have the least responsibility for creating the situation. Facts are, per the background of Laudato Si which were mentioned here, 40% of the CO2 emissions are generated by the 400 million most wealth individuals on Earth. Accordingly the 400 million most wealth on Earth should pay for that damage, at present, and historical damage, and that is the proper call. Also, there are mistaken ideas of how to help the poor and disenfranchised on the planet. Many see fossil fuels as necessary for and to that. I consistently maintain that’s silly and stupid: Fossil fuels demand the existence of extensive supply networks for them, and only the fossil fuel companies and their delivery companies make out when these are used. Instead, local wind and solar, village by village, make a lot more sense.
However, the risk and impending damage from climate change is severe and real. The message progressives need to learn is that we cannot afford to wait for the perfect solution for this. This is a civilization-threatening risk. There needs to be triage. We need to make choices. Moreover, I have found in my engagements with progressives that saying that the poor of faraway lands will suffer disproportionately makes them, typically and certainly comparably wealthy, view the matter as just another cause among a plethora of others. That is not helpful, even if the causes are worthy.
Instead, people need to understand that the risks are immediate, very real, and will impact them. Soon. Not just their kids and grandkids. And, I suspect, although the effects for the poor and disenfranchised of the world will be severe, especially in places where it will be too hot to work, countries having extended supply chains are particularly susceptible to climate-related disruptions. This will have impacts on living, reduce wealth, and, unfortunately, instill some panic. All these could have been avoided if we had, collectively, been more proactive in our planning and response.
But, we are where we are. We need everyone on board, conservatives as well as progressives. Without them we aren’t going to solve the problem. And the repercussions of failing to do that are just too monstrous to allow it, even for the wealthy on Earth, if only because, as things are, for better or ill, without the wealthy population, everyone is worse off.
Thanks for your interest. When you have posts which are in line with the point and interests of this blog, as I wrote before, I’ll consider linking them.