Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Pat's blog
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews
- Hermann Scheer
- Awkward Botany
- The Alliance for Securing Democracy dashboard
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog
- Why "naive Bayes" is not Bayesian
climate change
- "Betting strategies on fluctuations in the transient response of greenhouse warming"
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- Agendaists
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- James Powell on sampling the climate consensus
- weather blocking patterns
- Solar Gardens Community Power
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks
- Climate at a glance
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
Archives
Category Archives: policy metrics
Has maintaining economic growth been worth it?
From Our World in Data article “No sign of a health-economy trade-off, quite the opposite“. Have the countries experiencing the largest economic decline performed better in protecting the nation’s health, as we would expect if there was a trade-off? The … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, COVID-19, economics, epidemiology, pandemic, policy metrics, politics, SARS-CoV-2
Tagged covid19, economicimpact, lives_for_dollars, pandemicresponse, sars_cov_2
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COVID-19 statistics, a caveat : Sources of data matter
There are a number of sources of COVID-19-related demographics, cases, deaths, numbers testing positive, numbers recovered, and numbers testing negative available. Many of these are not consistent with one another. One could hope at least rates would be consistent, but … Continue reading
A proposal: Challenge for the Green New Deal
There is a climate emergency. There are many ways of looking at this, from the big investments perspective (see also a Fed view), to human harms perspective (see also), to what it might cost to reverse these changes if they … Continue reading
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California Marine Debris Prevention: Banning Plastic Bags is Not Enough
NOAA has a full page of videos on marine debris and how to prevent it. The state of California has a 2018 plan on preventing marine debris. Here are some highlights. There is a good deal more in the report, … Continue reading
Posted in American Statistical Association, Life Cycle Assessment, life cycle sustainability analysis, policy metrics, public welfare, shop, shorelines, solid waste, solid waste management, South Shore Recycling Cooperative, spatial statistics, statistical series, statistics, supply chains, sustainability, the right to know, wishful environmentalism
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