Category: perceptions

• “Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration?” (Morss Colloquium, WHOI)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . bag bans . Claire Galkowski . coastal communities . coasts . diffusion processes . microbiomes . microplastics . NOAA . oceanic eddies . oceanography . oceans . perceptions . phytoplankton . plastics . pollution . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . science education . statistical ecology . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Oct 25.2019
• “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
• David Spiegelhalter on `how to spot a dodgy statistic’

  abstraction . anemic data . Bayes . Bayesian . chance . citizenship . civilization . corruption . Daniel Kahneman . disingenuity . Donald Trump . education . games of chance . ignorance . maths . moral leadership . obfuscating data . open data . perceptions . politics . rationality . reason . reasonableness . rhetoric . risk . sampling . science . sociology . statistics . the right to know

  Jul 21.2016
• George Monbiot: On leaving fossil fuels in the ground

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . causal diagrams . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . denial . destructive economic development . disruption . distributed generation . ecology . economics . energy . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . George Monbiot . global warming . greenhouse gases . grid defection . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . perceptions . philosophy . rate of return regulation . rationality . reasonableness . Sankey diagram . supply chains . the problem of evil . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . zero carbon

  May 17.2016
• 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
• Lamar Smith: #1 Enemy of Science

  bollocks . citizenship . civilization . denial . disingenuity . perceptions . politics . sociology

  Oct 29.2015