Category: American Association for the Advancement of Science

• On the responsibilities of scientists

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . anti-science . attribution . Boston Ethical Society . chemistry . citizenship . compassion . Donald Trump . dump Trump . ecology . Ecology Action . economics . environment . environmental law . Environmental Protection Agency . ethics . evidence . fossil fuels . justice . land use to fight . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . pollution . rationality . reason . reasonableness . risk . science . science denier . secularism . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the stack of lies . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon

  Sep 11.2017
• Dr James Hansen is great

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . atmosphere . Carbon Tax . climate change . climate disruption . emissions . environment . floods . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . hurricanes . hydrology . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . nonlinear systems . reasonableness . solar democracy . the tragedy of our present civilization . Unitarian Universalism

  Sep 1.2017
• Amory Lovins, 2008: `Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution with Amory Lovins`

  Adam Smith . affordable mass goods . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . capitalism . climate economics . destructive economic development . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . economic trade . economics . environment . ILSR . internal inconsistency . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . resource producitivity . solid waste management . stranded assets . supply chains . sustainability . the green century . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . transparency

  Aug 9.2017
• “Energy is at the core of all these things”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . biofuels . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to nowhere . climate disruption . climate economics . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . distributed generation . ecological services . Ecology Action . environment . environmental law . fossil fuel infrastructure . global warming . green tech . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local self reliance . methane . natural gas . Spaceship Earth . Stanford University . the problem of evil . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . water as a resource

  Jul 18.2017
• A “capacity for sustained muddle-headedness”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . anemic data . Bayesian . cardiovascular system . David Spiegelhalter . machine learning . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . medicine . Paul Lauenstein . rationality . reason . reasonableness . risk . statistics

  Jul 7.2017
• Statements by the Ecological Society of America on the proposed U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, and on Climate Change

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . argoecology . Carl Safina . climate change . climate disruption . complex systems . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . marine biology . mesh models . model-free forecasting . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . Science magazine . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Takens embedding theorem . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Jun 15.2017
• Massachusetts Senate, Climate and Clean Energy Tour (Senator Marc Pacheco, and others), testimony

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . citizenship . clean disruption . climate disruption . climate economics . climate justice . Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . decentralized electric power generation . destructive economic development . Ecology Action . global blinding . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . Mark Carney . Mark Jacobson . Massachusetts . Massachusetts Clean Energy Center . Massachusetts Interfaith Coalition for Climate Action . science . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  May 27.2017
• Liang, information flows, causation, and convergent cross-mapping

  Akaike Information Criterion . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . attribution . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . complex systems . convergent cross-mapping . ecology . Egbert van Nes . Ethan Deyle . Floris Takens . George Sughihara . global warming . Hao Ye . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . Lenny Smith . model-free forecasting . nonlinear systems . physics . statistics . Takens embedding theorem . theoretical physics . Timothy Lenton . Victor Brovkin

  May 2.2017
• Just because the data lies sometimes doesn’t mean it’s okay to censor it

  Akaike Information Criterion . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . Bayes . Bayesian . climate . climate change . climate models . data science . dynamical systems . ecology . Eli Rabett . environment . Ethan Deyle . George Sughihara . Hao Ye . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . IPCC . Kalman filter . kriging . Lenny Smith . maximum likelihood . model comparison . model-free forecasting . physics . quantitative ecology . random walk processes . random walks . science . smart data . state-space models . statistics . Takens embedding theorem . the right to know . Timothy Lenton . Victor Brovkin

  May 1.2017
• March for Science, Boston, 22 April 2017

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . being carbon dioxide . Buckminster Fuller . Earth Day . Environmental Protection Agency . Hyper Anthropocene . Minsky moment . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . Principles of Planetary Climate . science . science education . scientific publishing . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . Spaceship Earth . Stephen Schneider . Svante Arrhenius . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . XKCD

  Apr 22.2017
• “You don’t have that option.”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Bayesian . citizen data . citizen science . Climate Lab Book . Earth Day . ecological services . ecology . environment . Hyper Anthropocene . Neill deGrasse Tyson . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reason . reasonableness . religion . science . science education . Science magazine . scientific publishing . secularism . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . United States . XKCD

  Apr 21.2017
• Global blinding, or Nature’s revenge against meteorologists who deny climate disruption

  Accuweather . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . climate . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate justice . dynamical systems . Eaarth . environment . evidence . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global blinding . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Kerry Emanuel . meteorological models . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . nonlinear systems . notes . oceanic eddies . oceanography . radiative forcing . Ricky Rood . science . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . theoretical physics

  Apr 6.2017
• Taking advantage of the natural skepticism and integrity of scientists and their co-workers, and their commitment to scientific process

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . bridge to nowhere . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . climate disruption . climate economics . climate zombies . Daniel Kahneman . destructive economic development . engineering . ethics . evidence . force multiplier . George Sughihara . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . military inferiority . Minsky moment . organizational failures . Our Children’s Trust . rationality . reasonableness . science . science denier . selfishness . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the stack of lies . the tragedy of our present civilization . United States

  Apr 1.2017
• Is the answer to the democratization of Science doing more Citizen Science?

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . astronomy . astrophysics . biology . citizen data . citizen science . citizenship . data science . ecology . education . environment . evidence . life purpose . local self reliance . marine biology . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . moral leadership . new forms of scientific peer review . open source scientific software . science . science education . statistics . the green century . the right to know

  Mar 29.2017
• `Letter to Lamar Smith’

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anemic data . anomaly detection . Anthropocene . Ben Santer . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . carbon dioxide . changepoint detection . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . Climate Lab Book . climate zombies . dependent data . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . meteorology . MIchael Mann . Our Children’s Trust . physics . science . smoothing . statistical dependence . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . time series

  Mar 28.2017
• The first really scary really stupid anti-science prospect from the Trumpistas

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . anti-science . astronomy . astrophysics . civilization . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . energy flux . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . obfuscating data . oceanography . radiative forcing . risk . science . science denier . Spaceship Earth . the problem of evil . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization

  Mar 17.2017
• Proud to be a member of the American Meteorological Society

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . Bill Nye . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . Climate Lab Book . David Archer . Donald Trump . ecology . environment . environmental law . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorological models . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . Our Children’s Trust . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . science . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . The Weather Channel . The Weather Company

  Mar 14.2017
• Papers of the day

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . approximate Bayesian computation . Bayesian . civilization . computation . denial . education . engineering . evidence . free flow of labor . physics . science . science education . statistics

  Mar 8.2017
• Yes, I will be marching for Science in Boston

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . astronomy . astrophysics . Carl Sagan . climate . Climate Lab Book . ecology . Eli Rabett . engineering . fluid dynamics . geophysics . hydrology . marine biology . meteorology . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . reason . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . theoretical physics . thermodynamics . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . XKCD

  Mar 8.2017
• What I’m reading …

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . ecology . economics . environment . ethics . evidence . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . indigenous peoples . science . science education

  Mar 1.2017
• “Oh no, not again” (from ATTP)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . chemistry . climate . climate disruption . climate education . Climate Lab Book . David Archer . diffusion . diffusion processes . fossil fuels . geophysics . Global Carbon Project . greenhouse gases . ignorance . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . science . science education

  Feb 26.2017
• Ductless Minisplits in Blizzard, 2017-02-09

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . atmosphere . attribution . being carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide . CleanTechnica . climate . climate change . climate disruption . demand-side solutions . efficiency . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . marginal energy sources . Massachusetts Clean Energy Center . meteorological models . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . New England . NOAA . nor’easters . oceanic eddies . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . risk . the right to know . water vapor

  Feb 9.2017
• `Environmental science in a post-truth world’ (Lubchenco and Kammen)

  Akaike Information Criterion . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . being carbon dioxide . Buckminster Fuller . climate . climate change . coastal communities . coasts . ecological services . ecology . environment . environmental law . evidence . global warming . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . Jane Lubchenco . marine biology . mass extinctions . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . risk . science . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . T’kun Olam . temporal myopia . the tragedy of our present civilization

  Feb 1.2017
• A letter to 45

  Adam Smith . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . citizenship . compassion . criminal justice . Donald Trump . economics . education . evidence . fear uncertainty and doubt . free flow of labor . Joseph Schumpeter . politics . the value of financial assets

  Feb 1.2017
• The Azimuth Climate Data Backup Project, in association with ClimateMirror

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . citizen science . civilization . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . Climate Lab Book . cynicism . denial . Donald Trump . education . EIA . ethics . evidence . fear uncertainty and doubt . forecasting . fossil fuels . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . NASA . NOAA . open data . open source scientific software . rationality . reason . reasonableness . risk . science . science denier . science education . smart data . statistics . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . UU . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Jan 19.2017
• You really can’t go home again: An update of “Getting back to 350 ppm CO2 …”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Buckminster Fuller . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Carbon Worshipers . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate business . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate economics . David Archer . diffusion . diffusion processes . ecological services . Eli Rabett . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . fossil fuels . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . Glen Peters . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . Principles of Planetary Climate . Ray Pierrehumbert . science . Spaceship Earth . Susan Solomon . Svante Arrhenius . the tragedy of our present civilization . Tokarska and Zickfield . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Jan 13.2017
• Why scientific measurements need to be adjusted

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . Canettes Blues Band . citizen data . climate data . data science . environment . evidence . geophysics . GISTEMP . HadCRUT4 . mathematics education . meteorological models . obfuscating data . open data . physics . science . spatial statistics . Tamino . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . Variable Variability

  Jan 7.2017
• `Moving forward on climate change and sustainability`

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Buckminster Fuller . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . Ecology Action . environment . Equiterre . fossil fuel divestment . Gavin Schmidt . geophysics . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Kevin Anderson . moral leadership . NASA . physics . science . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . zero carbon

  Jan 1.2017
• Okay, Jan, so what’s your view on climate change?

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Solar Energy Society . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . Buckminster Fuller . carbon dioxide . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate change . climate disruption . decentralized electric power generation . distributed generation . ecological services . energy reduction . energy storage . environment . Equiterre . fossil fuel divestment . Gaylord Nelson . Glen Peters . greenhouse gases . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . James Hansen . Kevin Anderson . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . Mark Jacobson . Massachusetts . Minsky moment . Neill deGrasse Tyson . Our Children’s Trust . population biology . quantitative ecology . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . temporal myopia . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . Walt Disney Company . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Dec 29.2016
• `Anecdotes don’t make reliable evidence’

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . changepoint detection . climate . climate change . climate disruption . disingenuity . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . flooding . floods . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . glaciology . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . ice sheet dynamics . ignorance . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . meteorology . Minsky moment . Neill deGrasse Tyson . NOAA . oceanography . planning . reason . reasonableness . science . shorelines . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets

  Dec 28.2016