Category: American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Yeah, like many aspects of the biosphere, forests and their contribution to sequestering Carbon is complicated

  afforestation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . being carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . climate disruption . climate emergency . climate mitigation . ecological disruption . zero carbon

  Oct 21.2021
• An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biden to End the Fossil Fuel Era

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . being carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide . climate disruption . climate emergency

  Oct 9.2021
• Biomes are too dynamic and intertwingled to be managed with simple political slogans: The case of Gnetum luofuense

  Aldo Leopold . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . Apis mellifera . bacteria . being carbon dioxide . Bill McKibben . biology . Botany One . climate disruption . climate emergency . climate policy . complex systems . control theory . Cult of Carbon . Daniel B Botkin . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . Gnetum luofuense . gymnosperms . Steven Vogel

  Sep 2.2021
• Sir David Attenborough : “… a value on Nature … and through global cooperation”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . carbon dioxide . climate change . climate disruption . decentralized energy . Ecology Action . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . global warming . global weirding . Humans have a lot to answer for . solar energy . wind energy . zero carbon

  Mar 1.2021
• Texas. Wonderment.

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Amory Lovins . Bloomberg Green . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate denial . climate disruption . climate economics . ClimateAdam . decentralized electric power generation . distributed generation . electrical energy engineering . electricity markets . energy utilities . fossil fuels . global warming . photovoltaics . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Feb 26.2021
• Why I care about and study mosses

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . astrophysics . bryology . bryophytes . carbon dioxide . climate . Cosmos . Ecological Society of America . icesheets . longitudinal study of mosses . longitudinal survey of mosses . National Phenology Network . Neill deGrasse Tyson . science

  Feb 20.2021
• “Environmentalists’climate change myths”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . climate . Climate Adam . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate science . ClimateAdam . environment . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . On being Carbon Dioxide . zero carbon

  Jan 20.2021
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2020: Looking forward to 2021 and well beyond

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Antarctica . Arctic . marine biology . oceanography . oceans . science . science education . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Jan 4.2021
• Hints on a second edition of Principles of Planetary Climate

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . carbon dioxide . climate change . climate science . David Archer . geophysics . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert

  Dec 27.2020
• a song in praise of data scientist Rebekah Jones

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Mathematical Society . American Statistical Association . Boston Ethical Society . children as political casualties . Data for Good . data science . geographic . geographic information systems . International Society for Bayesian Statistics . journalism . mathematics . New England Statistical Society . pandemic . Rebekah Jones . Risky Talk . science . Significance . statistical ecology . statistics . the problem of evil . whistleblowing . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Dec 12.2020
• Net Zero Emissions

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . being carbon dioxide . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . climate activism . Climate Adam . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate policy . climate science . ClimateAdam . ecocapitalism . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . global warming . zero carbon

  Dec 2.2020
• On the Nuclear option

  alternatives to the Green New Deal . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Solar Energy Society . an uncaring American public . atmosphere . Ørsted . Benji Backer . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . CleanTechnica . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate mitigation . climate nightmares . climate policy . climate science . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . electricity . electricity markets . energy utilities . environment . Ernest Moniz . Falmouth . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . greenhouse gases . investment in wind and solar energy . New England . nuclear power . NuScale . ocean warming . On being Carbon Dioxide . photovoltaics . solar energy . stranded assets . technology . the green century . Tokarska and Zickfield . wind power . zero carbon

  Dec 1.2020
• Complexity vs Simplicity in Geophysics

  abstraction . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . Azimuth Project . complex systems . control theory . differential equations . dynamical systems . eigenanalysis . information theoretic statistics . mathematics . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . mechanistic models . nonlinear systems . Paul Pukite . spectra . spectral methods . spectroscopy . theoretical physics . wave equations . WHT

  Nov 10.2020
• Six Principle Plays in Denialist Playbook

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . anti-intellectualism . anti-science . Ben Santer . climate denial . climate science . Climate Science Legal Defense Fund . COVID-19 . denial . Desmog Blog . science . science denier . science education . secularism . Skeptical Science

  Nov 9.2020
• ‘The virus is their new hoax’

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . an ignorant American public . climate disruption . coronavirus . COVID-19 . SARS-CoV-2

  Sep 22.2020
• “Inferring change points in the spread of COVID-19 reveals the effectiveness of interventions”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Bayesian . Bayesian computational methods . causal inference . causation . changepoint detection . coronavirus . counterfactuals . COVID-19 . epidemiology . SARS-CoV-2 . state-space models . statistical series . time series

  Jul 10.2020
• Great podcast: “Confronting uncertainty with Tamsin Edwards”

  alternatives to the Green New Deal . American Association for the Advancement of Science . climate change . climate denial . climate education . climate policy . climate science . David Spiegelhalter . dynamical systems . fluid dynamics . games of chance . global warming . global weirding . IPCC . model comparison . risk . Risky Talk . statistical models . statistical series

  Jun 24.2020
• First substantial mechanism for long term immunity from SARS-CoV-2 : T-cells

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . coronavirus . COVID-19 . epidemiology . SARS-CoV-2

  May 16.2020
• Dissection of the Dr Judy Mikovits’ claims in AAAS Science

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . coronavirus . COVID-19 . SARS-CoV-2 . science . Science magazine

  May 10.2020
• Cloud brightening hits a salty snag

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide . chemistry . climate disruption . climate mitigation . climate nightmares . climate policy . cloud brightening . ecomodernism . emissions . geoengineering . global warming . Ken Caldeira . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . meteorological models . meteorology . mitigating climate disruption . NASA . National Center for Atmospheric Research . oceanography . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . risk . solar radiation management . sustainability . Wally Broecker . water vapor . wishful environmentalism . zero carbon

  Apr 10.2020
• Machiavelli

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . anti-science . coronavirus . COVID-19 . Machiavelli . SARS-CoV-2

  Apr 6.2020
• What happens when time sampling density of a series matches its growth

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . anti-intellectualism . anti-science . climate denial . corruption . data science . data visualization . Donald Trump . dump Trump . epidemiology . experimental science . exponential growth . forecasting . Kalman filter . model-free forecasting . nonlinear systems . open data . penalized spline regression . population dynamics . sampling algorithms . statistical ecology . statistical models . statistical regression . statistical series . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . the stack of lies

  Mar 14.2020
• “Code for causal inference: Interested in astronomical applications”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . astronomy . astrostatistics . causal inference . causation . counterfactuals . epidemiology . experimental design . experimental science . multivariate statistics . prediction . propensity scoring . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . reproducible research . rhetorical mathematics . rhetorical science . rhetorical statistics . science . statistical ecology . statistical models . statistical regression . statistics

  Feb 21.2020
• Another kind of latent data: That encoded in journal and report figures

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Chemical Society . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . experimental science

  Jan 13.2020
• “Because we need to make the science stick.”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Mark Jacobson

  Jan 11.2020
• “Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration?” (Morss Colloquium, WHOI)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . bag bans . Claire Galkowski . coastal communities . coasts . diffusion processes . microbiomes . microplastics . NOAA . oceanic eddies . oceanography . oceans . perceptions . phytoplankton . plastics . pollution . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . science education . statistical ecology . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Oct 25.2019
• The CO2 Coalition: A cabal of digital denial

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . climate activism . climate change . climate denial . climate disruption . CO2 Coalition . David Burton . luckwarmism . William Happer

  Oct 15.2019
• “How dare you pretend …!”

  #climatestrike . #sunrise . #youthvgov . American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate disruption . climate economics . climate grief . ecological disruption . Ecology Action . global warming

  Sep 23.2019
• “Sustainability failed. The future is just climate.” (Simon Propper)

  adaptation . Aldo Leopold . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . alternatives to the Green New Deal . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . bag bans . being carbon dioxide . Bill Gates . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate justice . climate policy . coastal investment risks . Daniel Kahneman . global warming

  Sep 10.2019
• “Between grounded hope and radical hope, that’s what we’re going to need for climate change.”

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . bridge to somewhere . climate activism . climate change . climate disruption . climate grief . ClimateAdam . demand-side solutions . ecopragmatism . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Juliana v United States . science . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . solar revolution . Tony Seba

  Jul 26.2019