Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
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- "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.
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- Giant vertical monopolies for energy have stopped making sense
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- "Consider a Flat Pond" Invited talk introducing systems thinking, by Jan Galkowski, at First Parish in Needham, UU, via Zoom
- BioPython A collection of Python tools for quantitative Biology
- GeoEnergy Math Prof Paul Pukite’s Web site devoted to energy derived from geological and geophysical processes and categorized according to its originating source.
- Darren Wilkinson's introduction to ABC Darren Wilkinson’s introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (“ABC”). See also his post about summary statistics for ABC https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/summary-stats-for-abc/
- 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
- Tim Harford's “More or Less'' Tim Harford explains – and sometimes debunks – the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- Number Cruncher Politics
- Awkward Botany
- Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- "The Expert"
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- Rasmus Bååth's Research Blog Bayesian statistics and data analysis
- Earth Family Beta MIchael Osborne’s blog on Science and the like
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Simon Wood's must-read paper on dynamic modeling of complex systems I highlighted Professor Wood’s paper in https://hypergeometric.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/struggling-with-problems-already-attacked/
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Slice Sampling
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- All about models
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- Los Alamos Center for Bayesian Methods
- OOI Data Nuggets OOI Ocean Data Lab: The Data Nuggets
- Earle Wilson
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
- Gavin Simpson
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- 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.
- NCAR AtmosNews
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- James' Empty Blog
- Mark Berliner's video lecture "Bayesian mechanistic-statistical modeling with examples in geophysical settings"
- Healthy Home Healthy Planet
- Label Noise
- Pat's blog While it is described as “The mathematical (and other) thoughts of a (now retired) math teacher”, this is false humility, as it chronicles the present and past life and times of mathematicians in their context. Recommended.
- Ted Dunning
- Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on how businesses can help our collective environmental mess Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started.
- Ives and Dakos techniques for regime changes in series
climate change
- ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
- 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
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- And Then There's Physics
- "Warming Slowdown?" (part 2 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. The second part.
- weather blocking patterns
- SolarLove
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- RealClimate
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- MIT's Climate Primer
- Spectra Energy exposed
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- Earth System Models
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- The beach boondoggle Prof Rob Young on how owners of beach property are socializing their risks at costs to all of us, not the least being it seems coastal damage is less than it actually is
- The Keeling Curve The first, and one of the best programs for creating a spatially significant long term time series of atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Started amongst great obstacles by one, smart determined guy, Charles David Keeling.
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- Exxon-Mobil statement on UNFCCC COP21
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Reanalyses.org
- Climate Change Reports By John and Mel Harte
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- Skeptical Science
- “The discovery of global warming'' (American Institute of Physics)
- Agendaists Eli Rabett’s coining of a phrase
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- Model state level energy policy for New Englad Bob Massie’s proposed energy policy for Massachusetts, an admirable model for energy policy anywhere in New England
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Warming slowdown discussion
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
- Simple models of climate change
- “Ways to [try to] slow the Solar Century''
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- "Lessons of the Little Ice Age" (Farber) From Dan Farber, at LEGAL PLANET
- "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.
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- 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.
- Social Cost of Carbon
- HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
- Tuft's Professor Kenneth Lang on the physical chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
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a song in praise of data scientist Rebekah Jones
I linked to Rebekah Jones‘ keynote address at the August 2020 Data Science Conference on COVID-19 sponsored by the National Institute for Statistical Science. Below is a song in tribute to her, wishing her well. (h/t Bill McKibben) We’re doing … Continue reading
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