Category: Anthropocene

• `The Republican Party is enabling an increasingly dangerous demagogue`: Fallows, at The Atlantic

  Anthropocene . climate change . climate disruption . Hyper Anthropocene . science denier

  Aug 23.2017
• 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
• Saving the World: Jacobson, Chu, with DiCaprio, at Stanford

  Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . Arnold Schwarzennegger . Bill Nye . BNEF . Buckminster Fuller . clean disruption . climate disruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . distributed generation . Hyper Anthropocene . Mark Jacobson . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Stanford University . Stephen Chu . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Aug 3.2017
• On Hoarding Electrons

  American Solar Energy Society . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . conservation . Debbie Dooley . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . distributed generation . economics . electrical energy storage . electricity . electricity markets . energy efficiency . energy storage . energy utilities . engineering . Green Tea Coalition . green tech . grid defection . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . Joseph Schumpeter . Michael Osborne . microgrids . public utility commissions . rate of return regulation . RevoluSun . Sankey diagram . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Stanford University . SunPower . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 22.2017
• The South Shore Recycling Cooperative can save you money!

  Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . argoecology . coastal communities . composting . destructive economic development . ecological services . ecology . economics . environment . environmental law . Equiterre . Hyper Anthropocene . John Farrell . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local self reliance . oceanography . Our Children’s Trust . pollution . recycling . Sankey diagram . sociology . South Shore Recycling Cooperative . stranded assets . sustainability . the green century . UU Needham

  Jul 20.2017
• “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
• Schroders asset management forecasts global warming of more than +4℃

  adaptation . Anthropocene . Buckminster Fuller . climate business . climate disruption . climate economics . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . corporate supply chains . disingenuity . dynamical systems . economics . environmental law . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . global blinding . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investments . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . Schroders . sea level rise . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to be and act stupid . the show . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . zero carbon

  Jul 17.2017
• The Myth of Baseload Power (Amory Lovins)

  Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . Buckminster Fuller . capitalism . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . design science . distributed generation . economics . energy efficiency . energy reduction . environment . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . integrative design . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . microgrids . petroleum . reasonableness . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to know . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 8.2017
• “Explosive methane will create two million jobs!”

  American Petroleum Institute . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . disingenuity . economics . EIA . emissions . explosive methane . false advertising . fossil fuels . gas pipeline leaks . Hyper Anthropocene . methane . natural gas . petroleum . pipelines . the right to be and act stupid . the show . the tragedy of our present civilization . tragedy of the horizon

  Jul 3.2017
• Solar Costs at `Jaw-Dropping Lows`; `No Evidence That Changing Power Mix Endangers Electric System Reliability`

  American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . Bloomberg . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . clean disruption . climate business . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . distributed generation . Donald Trump . economics . electricity markets . engineering . force multiplier . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . Green Tech Media . grid defection . Hyper Anthropocene . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . microgrids . public utility commissions . reasonableness . Sankey diagram . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . stranded assets . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to be and act stupid . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jun 30.2017
• Defying technology, trends … nay, defying Mathematics!

  American Petroleum Institute . American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to nowhere . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . clean disruption . climate business . climate economics . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . corporations . destructive economic development . Donald Trump . economics . electricity markets . energy . energy utilities . evidence . explosive methane . exponential growth . extended supply chains . false advertising . FERC . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . fossil fuels . fracking . global blinding . greenhouse gases . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . military inferiority . Minsky moment . pipelines . politics . pollution . rights of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth . risk . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . the energy of the people . the green century . the problem of evil . the right to be and act stupid . the stack of lies . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . United States . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power

  Jun 25.2017
• 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
• Prayer Vigil for the Earth, Needham Common, Massachusetts, 4 June 2017

  Anthropocene . climate disruption . Hyper Anthropocene . methane . Reverend Catie Scudera . Unitarian Universalism . UU Needham

  Jun 4.2017
• Disney’s Robert Iger resigns from Trump advisory panel over the Trumpistas’ decision to quit COP

  Anthropocene . Buckminster Fuller . carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . COP21 . destructive economic development . Disney . Donald Trump . environment . Florida . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Robert Iger . Walt Disney Company

  Jun 1.2017
• `Exxon Shareholders Approve Climate Resolution: 62% Vote for Disclosure’

  Anthropocene . Bloomberg . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to nowhere . business . capitalism . Carbon Worshipers . clean disruption . climate . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . corporations . destructive economic development . environmental law . extended supply chains . Exxon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . fossil fuels . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investments . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . making money . Our Children’s Trust . petroleum . pollution . rationality . reason . reasonableness . statistics . stranded assets . sustainability . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . zero carbon

  May 31.2017
• Dikran Marsupial’s excellent bit on hypothesis testing applied to climate, or how it should be applied, if at all

  Anthropocene . anti-science . Bayesian . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . D. K. Marsupial . Frequentist . global warming . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . John Kruschke . regime shifts . statistics . Student t distribution

  May 30.2017
• 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
• I’m afraid, dear progressive friends, Mr Maher is 110% correct

  Anthropocene . atheism . Bill Maher . Buckminster Fuller . Canettes Blues Band . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . Daniel Kahneman . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . electricity markets . engineering . environmental law . fossil fuel divestment . free flow of labor . global warming . green tech . greenwashing . Hermann Scheer . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . Kevin Anderson . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . liberal climate deniers . local self reliance . Michael Osborne . politics . rationality . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . zero carbon

  May 7.2017
• 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
• Why we sold our Disney Vacation Club timeshares

  Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . coastal communities . coasts . Disney . Disney Vacation Club . environmental law . flooding . Florida . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . Joe Romm . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . living shorelines . science education . shorelines . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets

  Apr 27.2017
• 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
• `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
• On engaging with science denial

  Anthropocene . climate change . climate disruption . Climate Science Legal Defense Fund . climate zombies . denial . George Constanza . Hyper Anthropocene . liberal climate deniers . MIchael Mann . personal purity . Stephen Schneider

  Feb 20.2017
• A new feature: Technical publications of the week

  Anthropocene . big data . climate change . climate disruption . data science . data streams . earthquakes . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Locality Sensitive Hashing . LSH . MinHash . numerical algorithms . numerical analysis . random projections . seismology . subspace projection methods . SVD . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets

  Feb 18.2017
• Zeke Hausfather regarding Baselines and Buoys

  American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anomaly detection . Anthropocene . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . climate . climate data . climate zombies . denial . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . NOAA . oceanography

  Feb 12.2017
• 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
• Net energy consumption at Westwood Studios, after solar generation, with zero Carbon house, and, now, Chevy Volt Tesla Model 3

  adaptation . American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . distributed generation . efficiency . electricity . electricity markets . energy utilities . green tech . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . ISO-NE . local generation . local self reliance . microgrids . Sankey diagram . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . zero carbon

  Feb 5.2017