Category: reasonableness

• “Solar: A convenient truth” (2016)

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . clean disruption . climate . climate change . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . exponential growth . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . optimization . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to know . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Sep 3.2015
• Solar array with cloud predicting technology launched in WA

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamic linear models . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Kalman filter . mathematics . maths . meteorology . microgrids . mitigation . NCAR . numerical software . optimization . physics . prediction . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . stochastics . sustainability . time series

  Aug 31.2015
• +1 I.A.U.

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . ecology . environment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . maths . meteorology . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise

  Aug 31.2015
• Locally generated solar PV will destroy America’s electric utilities: Barclays

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Cape Wind . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . 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 . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . microgrids . physics . prediction . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . statistics . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 26.2015
• Leaks in Westwood: Natural Gas — a bridge to nowhere

  bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . ecology . energy reduction . energy utilities . environment . fossil fuels . fracking . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . methane . natural gas . open data . pipelines . politics . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . spatial statistics . sustainability . the right to know . zero carbon

  Aug 26.2015
• 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
• Your future: Antarctica, in detail

  Antarctica . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate zombies . disingenuity . ecology . ensembles . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . IPCC . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . LBNL . living shorelines . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . mesh models . meteorology . multivariate statistics . numerical software . optimization . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . spatial statistics . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . supercomputers . temporal myopia . the right to know . thermodynamics . time series . University of California Berkeley . WAIS

  Aug 18.2015
• What’s Beef?

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . denial . disingenuity . education . exponential growth . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . obfuscating data . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sociology . sustainability . Uncategorized . zero carbon

  Aug 13.2015
• “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
• “Allocating a 2° C cumulative carbon budget to countries”: Gignac and Matthews

  adaptation . Anthropocene . Boston Ethical Society . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . chance . chemistry . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . education . energy . energy reduction . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . mitigation . open source scientific software . physical materialism . physics . population biology . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . scientific publishing . sociology . solar power . sustainability . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . UNFCCC . UU Humanists . wind power

  Aug 10.2015
• Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change (from grist.org)

  Anthropocene . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . conservation . consumption . corruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . disingenuity . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . education . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . exponential growth . finance . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . fracking . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . mathematics . maths . meteorology . methane . microgrids . natural gas . optimization . physics . pipelines . politics . prediction . public utility commissions . PUCs . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . statistics . sustainability . taxes . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 10.2015
• Solar installation progress, courtesy of MacSolarIndex.com

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . meteorology . microgrids . open data . optimization . physics . politics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . solar power . sustainability . the right to know . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 10.2015
• Alice Bell’s “A very short history of climate change research”

  astronomy . astrophysics . biology . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . dynamical systems . ecology . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . IPCC . James Hansen . meteorology . Neill deGrasse Tyson . NOAA . oceanography . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . spatial statistics . statistics . sustainability . temporal myopia . UNFCCC . WHOI

  Aug 10.2015
• Pathetic Politics and Lies: “Am I The Only One Who Noticed” (from Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal)

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . environment . ethics . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . IPCC . meteorology . Neill deGrasse Tyson . physics . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . temporal myopia . zero carbon

  Aug 7.2015
• California solar users already affecting per-residence rates of non-solar utility customers

  bifurcations . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . differential equations . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . finance . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . maths . microgrids . natural gas . pipelines . politics . rationality . reasonableness . solar power . statistics . temporal myopia . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 5.2015
• SCIENCE OF DOOM takes on assessing zero Carbon power and a zero Carbon grid

  adaptation . Anthropocene . clean disruption . climate data . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . microgrids . open data . optimization . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . state-space models . stochastics . sustainability . the right to know . time series . wind power . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Aug 4.2015
• The United States Clean Power Plan … It’s time.

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . bifurcations . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate justice . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . destructive economic development . ecology . economics . energy . engineering . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . meteorology . oceanography . physics . politics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . Tamino . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . UNFCCC . UU Humanists . Westwood . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 2.2015
• New Paper Shows Global Climate Model Errors are Significantly Less Than Thought (Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal)

  Arctic . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . differential equations . diffusion processes . ensembles . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . HadCRUT4 . meteorology . model comparison . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . physics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . science . statistics . Tamino . time series

  Aug 2.2015
• Hausfathers “Climate Impacts of Coal and Natural Gas”

  Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . consumption . COP21 . ecology . energy . energy reduction . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . James Hansen . methane . natural gas . physics . pipelines . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . statistics . the right to know . zero carbon

  Jul 30.2015
• “Where most of us live (with apologies to southern-hemisphere readers)” [reblog of Tamino]

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizen science . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . denial . ecology . education . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . hiatus . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . mathematics . maths . meteorology . NOAA . open data . physics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . statistics . Tamino . time series . Uncategorized . Wordpress

  Jul 30.2015
• It was the year 2000, Elizabeth Houghton had just died, and the plan was to restore the ecosystems about Fowl Meadow

  biology . citizenship . consumption . destructive economic development . ecology . environment . ethics . exponential growth . floods . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . living shorelines . politics . population biology . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . statistics . the right to know . transparency . University Station . Westwood

  Jul 29.2015
• WHT’s “Climate Sensitivity and the 33C Discrepancy”

  astrophysics . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . dynamical systems . ENSO . environment . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . mathematics . maths . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . WHT

  Jul 29.2015
• 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
• Mad Unscience (humorous, if it wasn’t so pathetic)

  capricious gods . carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate zombies . denial . global warming . history . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . obfuscating data . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . Tamino . UU Humanists

  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
• Professor James Hansen responds and explains:

  Anthropocene . arXiv . astrophysics . bifurcations . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . COP21 . denial . disingenuity . dynamical systems . ecology . education . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . James Hansen . maths . meteorology . NASA . NCAR . new forms of scientific peer review . NOAA . oceanography . open source scientific software . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . probability . rationality . reasonableness . science . science education . sea level rise . temporal myopia . the right to know . time series . WAIS . zero carbon

  Jul 27.2015
• Draft elements of COP21 agreement for Paris

  Anthropocene . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . compassion . consumption . COP21 . environment . ethics . fossil fuel divestment . global warming . history . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . IPCC . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . UNFCCC . zero carbon

  Jul 25.2015
• Sea Surface Anomalies

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ecology . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . IPCC . mathematics . MCMC . NASA . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . open data . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . time series . transparency

  Jul 24.2015
• Tea Party member Debbie Dooley on solar power (from The Guardian)

  bifurcations . carbon dioxide . citizenship . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . economics . efficiency . energy . ethics . finance . fossil fuels . global warming . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . maths . microgrids . politics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . solar power . statistics . Tea Party . time series . Tony Seba . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 24.2015