Category: geophysics

• “Richard Lindzen: limited understanding?” (Tamino)

  Anthropocene . climate . climate change . climate disruption . denial . floods . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . Kerry Emanuel . meteorology . NCAR . Neill deGrasse Tyson . NOAA . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Tamino . zero carbon

  Dec 26.2015
• Paris’ COP21: Great cheerleading from the diplomats, but … +ENSO is here

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . climate . climate change . climate disruption . COP21 . Eaarth . ecology . economics . El Nino . ENSO . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . La Nina . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . physics . planning . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sustainability . Svante Arrhenius . zero carbon

  Dec 24.2015
• All I do is complain, complain …

  bifurcations . chaos . citizen science . convergent cross-mapping . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . engineering . Floris Takens . generalized linear models . geophysics . George Sughihara . ignorance . Lenny Smith . Lorenz . mathematics . maths . meteorology . prediction . probability . rationality . reasonableness . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . stochastics . Takens embedding theorem . the right to know . time series

  Dec 23.2015
• Climate Conclusions: The American Petroleum Institute (1980)

  adaptation . American Petroleum Institute . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . Chevron . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . denial . ecology . economics . environment . ethics . evidence . Exxon . fear uncertainty and doubt . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Gulf Oil . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . natural gas . open data . physics . pipelines . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . selfishness . Standard Oil of California . sustainability . Texaco . the right to know . the value of financial assets

  Dec 23.2015
• “That time has come and gone.”

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . environment . geophysics . glaciers . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . IPCC . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . Spaceship Earth . temporal myopia . UNFCCC

  Dec 22.2015
• 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
• November Hottest Ever, and Christmas Likely To bring Record Warmth in The East (Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal; AGU Blogosphere)

  AMETSOC . capricious gods . climate . climate models . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ensembles . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . numerical software . physics . science . the right to know . wave equations

  Dec 14.2015
• “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
• December 2015 Temperature Anomalies

  AMETSOC . Anthropocene . bollocks . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . Dan Satterfield . ENSO . environment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . oceanography . open data . physics . science . statistics

  Dec 2.2015
• Acting on climate change is fundamentally a moral question; it’s about what’s right; it’s about our values

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . compassion . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . denial . environment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . meteorology . physical materialism . rationality . religion . science . sustainability . UU Humanists

  Nov 28.2015
• Same Old, Same Old (“I’m your puppet”)

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate zombies . denial . environment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . obfuscating data . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . zero carbon

  Nov 23.2015
• 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
• Is Earth Much More Sensitive to CO2 Than Thought?

  Anthropocene . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . fossil fuels . generalized linear models . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Principles of Planetary Climate . risk . science

  Nov 19.2015
• Southern Oscillation (SOI) correlated with Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)

  AMETSOC . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ENSO . environment . forecasting . generalized linear models . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . IPCC . Mathematica . mathematics . maths . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . numerical software . oceanography . open data . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . state-space models . thermodynamics . time series

  Nov 12.2015
• “It’s real. There’s nothing we can do about it.”

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . environment . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Svante Arrhenius . the right to know

  Nov 10.2015
• House Science, Space, and Technology Committee vs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administation

  AMETSOC . Anthropocene . bollocks . bridge to nowhere . Carbon Worshipers . citizen science . citizenship . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . denial . disingenuity . education . environment . ethics . Exxon . fear uncertainty and doubt . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . time series . zero carbon

  Nov 7.2015
• “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
• Only One Word: EVIL

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . consumption . COP21 . corruption . denial . disingenuity . energy . Exxon . fear uncertainty and doubt . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . obfuscating data . perceptions . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . temporal myopia

  Nov 5.2015
• What the future of energy everywhere looks like

  adaptation . Anthropocene . capricious gods . chance . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . living shorelines . mesh models . meteorology . microgrids . mitigation . obfuscating data . oceanography . physical materialism . physics . pipelines . planning . politics . prediction . probabilistic programming . public utility commissions . PUCs . quantum . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . Sankey diagram . science . sea level rise . selfishness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Spaceship Earth . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . Svante Arrhenius . taxes . temporal myopia . the right to know . the value of financial assets . transparency . UU Humanists . WHOI . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Nov 2.2015
• Global Sea Level Rise by NASA Satellite since 1993

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . Cauchy distribution . citizenship . civilization . climate change . climate disruption . destructive economic development . economics . floods . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . living shorelines . MA . meteorology . oceanography . planning . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . statistics

  Nov 2.2015
• Holy F_____’ Sh__: Bill Gates, climate champion

  Anthropocene . Bill Gates . climate change . climate disruption . education . energy . engineering . environment . ethics . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology

  Oct 29.2015
• Exxon-Mobil digging its own grave

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . capricious gods . Carbon Cycle . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . citizenship . civilization . climate change . climate disruption . denial . ecology . energy . energy utilities . environment . Exxon . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . methane . natural gas . obfuscating data . rationality . reasonableness . science . sustainability . UU Humanists

  Oct 27.2015
• Kerry Emanuel and Svante Arrhenius, hurricanes and climate disruption: A 2015 update

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . geophysics . global warming . hurricanes . Kerry Emanuel . meteorology . oceanography . physics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise . sustainability . Svante Arrhenius

  Oct 27.2015
• Southern New England Meteorology Conference, 24th October 2015

  Anthropocene . capricious gods . climate . Dan Satterfield . dynamical systems . ensembles . ENSO . environment . floods . forecasting . geophysics . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . mesh models . meteorology . model comparison . NCAR . NOAA . nor’easters . oceanography . probability . science . spatial statistics . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . stochastics . time series

  Oct 25.2015
• 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
• The Koch brothers are afraid, very afraid … and should be

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate justice . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . denial . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy utilities . environment . Exxon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . obfuscating data . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . selfishness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . transparency . wind power . zero carbon

  Oct 17.2015
• Climate Disruption and Carbon Taxes: That ‘outlandish lefty plot’

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Carbon Worshipers . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . COP21 . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . energy utilities . engineering . environment . Exxon . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . mitigation . oceanography . physics . planning . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . zero carbon

  Oct 16.2015