Category: astrophysics

• 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
• Congratulations China!

  astronomy . astrophysics . basic research . China . engineering . Moon

  Dec 3.2020
• cdetools package for R: Dalmasso, et al [updated]

  ABC . accept-reject methods . astronomy . astrophysics . astrostatistics . Bayes . Bayesian computational methods . likelihood-free . statistical ecology

  Sep 7.2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• `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
• Happy Newtonmas!

  abstraction . astronomy . astrophysics . atheism . Bill Maher . Bill Nye . Boston Ethical Society . Buckminster Fuller . Carl Sagan . Cosmos . geophysics . Isaac Newton . mathematics . Neill deGrasse Tyson . physics . science . science education . the show

  Dec 24.2016
• Prescience and Response

  astronomy . astrophysics . climate change . climate disruption . global warming . science . UU . UU Humanists

  Nov 10.2016
• “All models are wrong. Some models are useful.” — George Box

  abstraction . American Association for the Advancement of Science . astronomy . astrophysics . mathematics . model-free forecasting . numerics . perceptions . physical materialism . physics . rationality . reason . reasonableness . science . spatial statistics . splines . statistics . the right to know . theoretical physics . time series

  Oct 17.2016
• Our uncontrolled experiment with Earth as an Astrophysics problem set

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . astrophysics . bacteria . bollocks . Carl Sagan . civilization . climate . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . cynicism . Daniel Kahneman . David Archer . David Suzuki . denial . destructive economic development . Eaarth . ecology . environment . environmental law . Equiterre . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . mass extinctions . meteorology . NASA . Neill deGrasse Tyson . oceanography . Our Children’s Trust . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . quantitative ecology . random walks . Ray Pierrehumbert . risk . Robert Young . science . sustainability

  Oct 4.2016
• “Understanding Climate Change with Bill Nye”, on Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Star Talk”

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . Bill Nye . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . Eaarth . ecology . environment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Neill deGrasse Tyson

  Aug 21.2016
• Bayesian blocks via PELT in R

  American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anomaly detection . astrophysics . Cauchy distribution . changepoint detection . engineering . geophysics . multivariate statistics . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . oceanography . population biology . population dynamics . Python 3 . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . R . Scargle . spatial statistics . square wave approximation . statistics . stepwise approximation . time series . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Aug 1.2016
• Six cases of models

  AMETSOC . anemic data . Anthropocene . astrophysics . Bayesian . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . dlm package . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . fossil fuels . geophysics . Giovanni Petris . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . maths . maximum likelihood . meteorology . model comparison . numerical software . Patrizia Campagnoli . Rauch-Tung-Striebel . Sonia Petrone . state-space models . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . SVD . time series

  Jun 6.2016
• Absorption of long wave, or thermal radiation by CO2 at 667 per cm

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . atmosphere . Bill Nye . carbon dioxide . chemistry . citizen science . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate education . denial . evidence . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . science denier . science education . spectra . SuperCorrector1 . Svante Arrhenius

  May 28.2016
• “Number density, not mixing ratio”, from Eli

  astrophysics . Boltzmann . carbon dioxide . chemistry . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . Eli Rabett . environment . evidence . geophysics . global warming . Loschmidt . meteorology . methane . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . science . theoretical physics . thermodynamics

  Apr 11.2016
• Gavin Simpson updates his temperature analysis

  AMETSOC . Anthropocene . astrophysics . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . carbon dioxide . changepoint detection . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . ecology . environment . evidence . Gavin Simpson . Generalize Additive Models . geophysics . global warming . HadCRUT4 . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . Kalman filter . maths . meteorology . numerical analysis . R . rationality . reasonableness . splines . time series

  Apr 8.2016
• on the exquisitely fragile, blue ball, with all the life we know everywhere, and ever was

  Anthropocene . astronomy . astrophysics . climate . Eaarth . geophysics . meteorology . oceanography . physics . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . Spaceship Earth . WHOI

  Dec 18.2015
• “No – no words. No words to describe it.”

  AMETSOC . Anthropocene . astronomy . astrophysics . Bill Nye . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . Carl Sagan . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . COP21 . Disney . ecology . education . energy . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . James Hansen . meteorology . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Walt Disney Company . zero carbon

  Dec 13.2015
• Admiral David Titley (USN, retired), oceanographer, on climate models and satellite temperature data

  AMETSOC . astrophysics . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . denial . environment . geophysics . global warming . ignorance . IPCC . James Hansen . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . science

  Dec 9.2015
• Pale Blue Dot

  astronomy . astrophysics . atheism . Bill Maher . Bill Nye . bollocks . Boston Ethical Society . Carl Sagan . citizenship . civilization . compassion . ecology . geophysics . humanism . NASA . physical materialism . physics . population biology . Sankey diagram . Spaceship Earth . statistics . stochastics

  Dec 9.2015
• El Nino In A Can – Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal – AGU Blogosphere

  AMETSOC . astrophysics . climate . climate change . climate models . computation . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Kerry Emanuel . mathematics . maths . mesh models . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . numerical analysis . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . stochastics . supercomputers . the right to know . thermodynamics . time series

  Dec 3.2015
• On infrared radiation and Earth temperature

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate models . David Archer . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . environment . evidence . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . meteorology . methane . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . Svante Arrhenius

  Nov 23.2015
• “Climate Science, 50 years later”

  Anthropocene . astronomy . astrophysics . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Svante Arrhenius . zero carbon

  Nov 6.2015
• Rabett Run reprises the Carbon Cycle … and very well, too

  astrophysics . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . climate . climate disruption . conservation . differential equations . diffusion . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . science . time series

  Oct 18.2015
• News Flash: “Warmer climate on the Earth may be due to more Carbon Dioxide in the air”

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate disruption . compassion . denial . disingenuity . ecology . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . physics . prediction . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . zero carbon

  Oct 10.2015
• “Too late to prevent climate change: Here’s how we adapt” (Alice Bows-Larkin)

  adaptation . Anthropocene . astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . capricious gods . carbon dioxide . chance . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . ecology . economics . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . mathematics . maths . meteorology . mitigation . oceanography . physics . planning . prediction . probability . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . statistics . sustainability . zero carbon

  Oct 7.2015
• Ahmed: arrested for having electronics in his possession simpler than a smart phone

  astronomy . astrophysics . atheism . Bill Nye . Boston Ethical Society . Carl Sagan . citizenship . civilization . Dan Satterfield . disingenuity . education . engineering . ethics . humanism . ignorance . physical materialism . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Susan Jacoby . the right to know . Unitarian Universalism . UU Humanists

  Sep 17.2015
• +1 I.A.U.

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . ecology . environment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . maths . meteorology . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise

  Aug 31.2015
• Alice Bell’s “A very short history of climate change research”

  astronomy . astrophysics . biology . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . IPCC . James Hansen . meteorology . Neill deGrasse Tyson . NOAA . oceanography . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . spatial statistics . statistics . sustainability . temporal myopia . UNFCCC . WHOI

  Aug 10.2015