Category: reasonableness

• “How is Germany integrating and balancing renewable energy today?”

  civilization . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . economics . efficiency . energy . engineering . environment . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar power

  Feb 20.2015
• “I don’t want Earth to look like Venus”

  astronomy . astrophysics . Carl Sagan . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . education . geophysics . meteorology . Neill deGrasse Tyson . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise

  Feb 18.2015
• Warming is proportional to CUMULATIVE CARBON EMISSIONS, not emission intensity

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate education . consumption . differential equations . ecology . engineering . environment . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . reasonableness . risk . science

  Feb 16.2015
• Christian Robert on Alan Turing

  Bayes . Bayesian . citizenship . education . ethics . history . humanism . mathematics . maths . politics . rationality . reasonableness . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . the right to know . Wordpress

  Feb 11.2015
• “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
• Richard Muller: “I Was Wrong On Global Warming, But It Didn’t Convince The ‘Sceptics’”

  astrophysics . Bayes . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . differential equations . ecology . environment . geoengineering . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . population biology . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . the right to know

  Feb 9.2015
• The New School puts climate change front, center … and acts

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . education . humanism . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . the right to know

  Feb 8.2015
• 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
• The B-Team

  astrophysics . biology . Boston Ethical Society . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . compassion . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . environment . ethics . forecasting . geoengineering . geophysics . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sociology . the right to know . wind power

  Feb 6.2015
• Models don’t over-estimate warming?

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . differential equations . diffusion processes . ecology . education . energy . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . statistics . the right to know

  Feb 2.2015
• engineering and understanding with stable models

  approximate Bayesian computation . Bayesian . citizen science . climate . climate change . climate education . differential equations . diffusion processes . ecology . economics . forecasting . geophysics . information theoretic statistics . IPCC . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . model comparison . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . stochastic search . the right to know

  Feb 2.2015
• David Suzuki on the 59th minute and exponential growth

  astronomy . astrophysics . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Carl Sagan . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . physics . population biology . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . statistics

  Jan 31.2015
• The designers of our climate

  astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . Carl Sagan . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . differential equations . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . geophysics . humanism . IPCC . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . methane . NASA . NCAR . Neill deGrasse Tyson . NOAA . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . probabilistic programming . R . rationality . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . sociology . solar power . statistics . testing . the right to know

  Jan 27.2015
• It’s the Trend, Stupid

  carbon dioxide . citizen science . climate . climate change . climate education . ecology . energy . environment . forecasting . geophysics . history . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . NOAA . obfuscating data . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . statistics . Uncategorized

  Jan 20.2015
• Codium fragile, for Saturday, 17th January 2015

  art . arXiv . astronomy . astrophysics . atheism . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . Carbon Tax . Carl Sagan . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . energy . engineering . environment . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . history . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . methane . microgrids . NASA . Neill deGrasse Tyson . new forms of scientific peer review . NOAA . notes . nuclear power . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . physics . politics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . reproducible research . science . science education . scientific publishing . sociology . the right to know

  Jan 17.2015
• Where are sea levels? Why? And things which affect measurements

  astronomy . astrophysics . climate . climate change . climate education . ecology . environment . forecasting . geophysics . meteorology . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . statistics

  Jan 14.2015
• Hestia: A glimpse at greenhouse gas emissions enforcement

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy reduction . engineering . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . methane . natural gas . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sociology . solar power . statistics . wind power

  Jan 13.2015
• “a day of mourning”

  Bayesian . citizenship . civilization . compassion . humanism . rationality . reasonableness . Wordpress

  Jan 10.2015
• On the dispensibility of causes

  civilization . education . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . scientific publishing . statistics

  Jan 10.2015
• AIP’s surprisingly good summary of climate change, in detail

  astronomy . astrophysics . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carl Sagan . civilization . climate . climate change . climate education . environment . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . meteorology . NASA . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education

  Jan 8.2015
• “Atmospheric lifetime of fossil fuel carbon dioxide” (2009)

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . chemistry . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . consumption . demand-side solutions . differential equations . ecology . economics . education . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geoengineering . geophysics . IPCC . meteorology . methane . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education

  Jan 6.2015
• Notes on distributed generation of electricity and stability of microgrids

  bridge to nowhere . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . microgrids . optimization . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . wind power

  Jan 5.2015
• More on ice sheets and 400 ppm CO2

  carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate education . conservation . ecology . environment . forecasting . geophysics . meteorology . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . the right to know

  Jan 4.2015
• Naomi Oreskes and significance testing

  Bayes . Bayesian . citizen science . climate . climate education . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . model comparison . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . testing

  Jan 4.2015
• “[W]e want to model the process as we would simulate it.”

  approximate Bayesian computation . Bayes . Bayesian . biology . ecology . engineering . forecasting . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . model comparison . optimization . population biology . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . statistics . stochastic algorithms

  Dec 28.2014
• climate internal variability is just residual variance from modeling with a smooth curve?

  cat1 . citizen science . climate . climate education . forecasting . geophysics . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics

  Dec 27.2014
• struggling with problems already partly solved by others

  approximate Bayesian computation . Bayes . Bayesian . biology . climate . climate education . differential equations . ecology . engineering . environment . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . mathematics education . meteorology . model comparison . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . population biology . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search

  Dec 26.2014
• “… making a big assumption …”

  Bayes . Bayesian . climate . climate education . environment . geophysics . information theoretic statistics . mathematics . maths . meteorology . model comparison . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . statistics

  Dec 25.2014
• Bayesian inference works even in a chaotic or deterministic world

  Bayes . Bayesian . citizen science . economics . education . forecasting . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . rationality . reasonableness . statistics . stochastic algorithms

  Dec 23.2014
• Understanding mechanisms in climate over short periods and in local regions

  carbon dioxide . climate . climate education . differential equations . ecology . energy . environment . forecasting . geophysics . IPCC . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . stochastic algorithms

  Dec 23.2014