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Rationale for XR, short term

Posted on 5 October 2021 by ecoquant
Posted in #climatestrike, #youthvgov, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate disruption, climate emergency, climate grief, ecocapitalism, Extinction REbellion, Fridays for Future | Leave a comment

“I don’t want my grandchildren to suffer” XR

Posted on 5 October 2021 by ecoquant
Posted in #climatestrike, #youthvgov, carbon dioxide, climate activism, climate disruption, climate emergency, Extinction REbellion, Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg | Leave a comment

Stephen Fry on XR

Posted on 5 October 2021 by ecoquant
Posted in #climatestrike, #youthvgov, climate activism, climate disruption, climate education, climate hawk, climate justice, Extinction REbellion, Fridays for Future, zero carbon | Leave a comment

James O’Brien changes his mind : XR is changing minds!

Posted on 7 September 2021 by ecoquant
Posted in #youthvgov, climate disruption, Extinction REbellion, Fridays for Future, XR | Leave a comment
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    • Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
    • Comprehensive Guide to Bayes Rule
    • Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
    • "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.
    • Thaddeus Stevens quotes As I get older, I admire this guy more and more
    • ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
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    • Charlie Kufs' "Stats With Cats" blog “You took Statistics 101. Now what?”
    • The Mermaid's Tale A conversation about biological complexity and evolution, and the societal aspects of science
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    • 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.
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    • WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
    • Why "naive Bayes" is not Bayesian Explains why the so-called “naive Bayes” classifier is not Bayesian. The setup is okay, but estimating probabilities by doing relative frequencies instead of using Dirichlet conjugate priors or integration strays from The Path.
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  • climate change

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    • Paul Beckwith Professor Beckwith is, in my book, one of the most insightful and analytical observers on climate I know. I highly recommend his blog, and his other informational products.
    • weather blocking patterns
    • ATTP summarizes all that stuff about Committed Warming from AND THEN THERE’S PHYSICS
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    • Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
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    • All Models Are Wrong Dr Tamsin Edwards blog about uncertainty in science, and climate science
    • Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
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    • Wind sled Wind sled: A zero carbon way of exploring ice sheets
    • Wally Broecker on climate realism
    • Social Cost of Carbon
    • "Warming Slowdown?" (part 1 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. In two parts.
    • Climate change: Evidence and causes A project of the UK Royal Society: (1) Answers to key questions, (2) evidence and causes, and (3) a short guide to climate science
    • Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
    • The Green Plate Effect Eli Rabett’s “The Green Plate Effect”
    • `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
    • Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
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    • Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
    • Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
    • The Sunlight Economy
    • "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.
    • Équiterre Equiterre helps build a social movement by encouraging individuals, organizations and governments to make ecological and equitable choices, in a spirit of solidarity.
    • James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
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    • Interview with Wally Broecker Interview with Wally Broecker
    • Simple box models and climate forcing IMO one of Tamino’s best posts illustrating climate forcing using simple box models
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Earth System Models
    • James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
    • Eli on the spectroscopic basis of atmospheric radiation physical chemistry
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    • Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
    • Documenting the Climate Deniarati at work
    • 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
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    • Ray Pierrehumbert's site related to "Principles of Planetary Climate" THE book on climate science
    • 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
    • Reanalyses.org
    • HotWhopper: It's excellent. Global warming and climate change. Eavesdropping on the deniosphere, its weird pseudo-science and crazy conspiracy whoppers.
    • Isaac Held's blog In the spirit of Ray Pierrehumbert’s “big ideas come from small models” in his textbook, PRINCIPLES OF PLANETARY CLIMATE, Dr Held presents quantitative essays regarding one feature or another of the Earth’s climate and weather system.
    • "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
    • AIP's history of global warming science: impacts The American Institute of Physics has a fine history of the science of climate change. This link summarizes the history of impacts of climate change.
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  • Kalman filtering and smoothing; dynamic linear models



    Also, see datasets and R examples to accompany this excellent text.





    I have used dlm almost exclusively, except when extreme efficiency was required. Since Jouni Helske's KFAS was rewritten, though, I'm increasingly drawn to it, because the noise sources it supports are more diverse than dlm's. KFAS uses the notation and approaches of Durbin, Koopman, and Harvey.

    ``The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.''
    Professor Donald Knuth, 1974
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