Category: games of chance

• “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
• The Art and Science of Stefan Rahmstorf

  Anthropocene . art . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . Cauchy distribution . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . destructive economic development . disingenuity . ecology . economics . education . environment . ethics . Exxon . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . IPCC . James Hansen . mathematics . maths . physical materialism . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know

  Sep 18.2015
• No turning back: On the effectiveness of artificially removing emitted CO2 from atmosphere for remediating climate disruption

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . denial . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . scientific publishing . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . thermodynamics . zero carbon

  Sep 16.2015
• Questions About El Nino Answered – Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal – AGU Blogosphere

  bifurcations . capricious gods . chance . climate change . Dan Satterfield . ensembles . ENSO . games of chance . maths . meteorology . NOAA . nor’easters . oceanography . precipitation . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . spatial statistics

  Sep 10.2015
• Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance (from SCAR report)

  Antarctica . Anthropocene . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . Cauchy distribution . climate . climate change . climate disruption . environment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . sustainability . WHOI

  Sep 9.2015
• Why coastal New England is good for wind

  Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecology . economics . EIA . energy . energy utilities . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . MA . meteorology . NCAR . NIMBY . NOAA . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . wind power

  Aug 20.2015
• “Does Local Climate Information Stimulate Action?” | Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research ®

  Anthropocene . Boston Ethical Society . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . demand-side solutions . economics . environment . ethics . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . sociology . temporal myopia . UU Humanists

  Aug 20.2015
• “The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics” (Sean Carroll, and collaborators)

  approximate Bayesian computation . Bayesian . bifurcations . Boltzmann . capricious gods . dynamical systems . ensembles . games of chance . Gibbs Sampling . information theoretic statistics . Josiah Willard Gibbs . mathematics . maths . physics . probability . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . thermodynamics . Wordpress

  Aug 11.2015
• Hansen et al.

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Cauchy distribution . chance . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate zombies . COP21 . denial . differential equations . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . environment . ethics . floods . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . James Hansen . mathematics . maths . meteorology . nor’easters . oceanography . physics . politics . probability . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . statistics . Student t distribution . Tamino . temporal myopia . the right to know . transparency . UNFCCC . zero carbon

  Jul 28.2015
• CO2 experiment: fooling with Earth

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . chance . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . ignorance . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . temporal myopia . the right to know

  Jul 27.2015
• Thank You

  astrophysics . citizen science . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . differential equations . dynamical systems . ecology . ensembles . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . model comparison . new forms of scientific peer review . open data . open source scientific software . physics . probabilistic programming . probability . rationality . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . spatial statistics . statistics . Tamino . the right to know . time series . transparency

  Jul 27.2015
• Welcome to the Hyper-Anthropocene

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . bifurcations . Boston . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Cauchy distribution . chance . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . exponential growth . finance . floods . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investing . IPCC . living shorelines . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . seawalls . temporal myopia . the right to know

  Jul 23.2015
• Excellent. With musings on religion and mass extinctions.

  art . atheism . Bill Nye . Boston Ethical Society . bridge to nowhere . Carl Sagan . citizenship . climate . climate change . climate education . climate justice . climate zombies . Darwin Day . denial . ecology . environment . ethics . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . history . humanism . mass extinctions . Neill deGrasse Tyson . physical materialism . politics . population biology . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sociology . temporal myopia . the right to know . UU Humanists

  Jul 10.2015
• Climate Justice

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamical systems . economics . education . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . history . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . temporal myopia . Unitarian Universalism . UU Humanists . zero carbon

  Jul 2.2015
• Another reason to decentralize electricity generation

  decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . energy . games of chance . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . wind power . zero carbon

  May 16.2015
• Stone STOCHASTICITY Project

  ales . capricious gods . chance . chemistry . games of chance . maths . probability . risk . statistics . stochastics . the right to know . Uncategorized

  May 4.2015
• Scary Stuff; a Potential Nasty Surprise

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Carl Sagan . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . ecology . education . engineering . environment . forecasting . games of chance . mathematics . maths . meteorology . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . sea level rise . sociology . statistics

  Mar 24.2015
• “Barking mad”

  astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . demand-side solutions . diffusion processes . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . history . humanism . IPCC . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . sea level rise . the right to know

  Feb 10.2015
• coastal damage: when will they be abandoned?

  carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . games of chance . oceanography . rationality . reasonableness . sea level rise . sociology . statistics

  Feb 8.2015
• Heads-up limit hold’em poker is solved

  games of chance . probabilistic programming . risk

  Jan 8.2015