Category: science

• `If we don’t protect Nature, we cannot protect ourselves’

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . corporate responsibility . David Suzuki . ecology . Ecology Action . global warming . Harrison Ford . Hyper Anthropocene . science

  Sep 20.2018
• Dr Glen Peters on “Stylised pathways to `well below 2°C”’, and some solutions from Dr Steven Chu (but it’s late!)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Anthropocene . atmosphere . being carbon dioxide . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate disruption . climate economics . emissions . Glen Peters . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . Kevin Anderson . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . Science magazine . Stephen Chu . sustainability . The Demon Haunted World . the tragedy of our present civilization . zero carbon

  Sep 14.2018
• Buckminster Fuller: Spaceship Earth. This is the Future. And it will be, here.

  an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . Buckminster Fuller . Global Carbon Project . green tech . science . Spaceship Earth . Star Trek – The Next Generation . Techno Utopias . technology . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . UU Humanists

  Sep 3.2018
• Heat has no hair (from Eli Rabett)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . atmosphere . Blackbody radiation . carbon dioxide . chemistry . climate change . climate education . Eli Rabett . global warming . physics . science

  Sep 2.2018
• Blackbody radiation and the greenhouse effect, via plates (from Eli Rabett)

  Blackbody radiation . carbon dioxide . climate change . Eli Rabett . energy . energy flux . global warming . lapse rate . physics . science

  Sep 1.2018
• “Why we need Jean-Luc Picard in 2018”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . Buckminster Fuller . humanism . Jean-Luc Picard . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . open source scientific software . Our Children’s Trust . Patrick Stewart . Principles of Planetary Climate . reason . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . Star Trek . Star Trek – The Next Generation . STNG . The Demon Haunted World . the Final Frontier . tragedy of the horizon

  Aug 19.2018
• Censorship of Science by the administration of President Donald Trump

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . an ignorant American public . an uncaring American public . anti-intellectualism . anti-science . Azimuth Backup Project . citizen data . Climate Science Legal Defense Fund . Donald Trump . dump Trump . Ecological Society of America . environmental law . epidemiology . global blinding . Neill deGrasse Tyson . open data . rationality . reason . reasonableness . science . secularism . The Demon Haunted World . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . tragedy of the horizon . unreason

  Aug 15.2018
• typical streamflow series, and immersive Science

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . science

  Jul 30.2018
• These are ethical “AI Principles” from Google, but they might as well be `technological principles’

  American Statistical Association . artificial intelligence . basic research . Bayesian . Boston Ethical Society . complex systems . computation . corporate citizenship . corporate responsibility . deep recurrent neural networks . emergent organization . ethical ideals . ethics . extended producer responsibility . friends and colleagues . Google . Google Pixel 2 . humanism . investments . machine learning . mathematics . moral leadership . natural philosophy . politics . risk . science . secularism . technology . The Demon Haunted World . the right to know . Unitarian Universalism . UU . UU Humanists

  Jun 28.2018
• everywhere

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . NASA . science . science education

  Apr 3.2018
• forecast for 27th March 2018

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . atmosphere . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . coastal communities . ensemble methods . ensemble models . fluid dynamics . forecasting . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . meteorological models . meteorology . numerical algorithms . physics . science . science education . spaghetti plots . tragedy of the horizon . water vapor

  Mar 21.2018
• The global vegetative biosphere

  argoecology . biology . Charles Darwin . complex systems . ecological services . Ecological Society of America . ecology . environment . Nature . nonlinear systems . oceanography . phytoplankton . population biology . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science

  Feb 19.2018
• [reblog] David Suzuki: Consumer society no longer serves our needs

  Adam Smith . adaptation . affordable mass goods . Anthropocene . climate economics . climate justice . consumption . David Suzuki . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . economics . ethics . evidence . science . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon

  Jan 15.2018
• 1992 World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity

  Anthropocene . David Suzuki . Hyper Anthropocene . scholarship . science

  Jan 6.2018
• The Internet was not created “because of an intelligence effort”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . basic research . IEEE . R&D . science . secrecy

  Dec 16.2017
• On the dominance of the `Demon Haunted World` in the United States

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . atheism . Carl Sagan . science . science education

  Nov 30.2017
• ‘Near classified information’ and the militarization of environmental degradation

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anti-science . Azimuth Backup Project . Bill Nye . Boston Ethical Society . bridge to somewhere . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . citizen data . citizen science . citizenship . climate justice . Climate Science Legal Defense Fund . criminal justice . Cult of Carbon . denial . destructive economic development . Donald Trump . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . environmental law . Environmental Protection Agency . Equiterre . fear uncertainty and doubt . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . rights of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth . science . science denier . science education . United States . “The tide is risin’/And so are we”

  Sep 25.2017
• On the responsibilities of scientists

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . anti-science . attribution . Boston Ethical Society . chemistry . citizenship . compassion . Donald Trump . dump Trump . ecology . Ecology Action . economics . environment . environmental law . Environmental Protection Agency . ethics . evidence . fossil fuels . justice . land use to fight . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . pollution . rationality . reason . reasonableness . risk . science . science denier . secularism . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the stack of lies . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon

  Sep 11.2017
• Unitarians, Dublin, IE

  Boston Ethical Society . Buckminster Fuller . IE . life purpose . philosophy . reason . reasonableness . science . tolerance . Unitarian Universalism . UU . UU Humanists

  Aug 27.2017
• Causation and the Tenuous Relevance of Philosophy to Modern Science

  causation . john d norton . philosophy of science . science

  Jun 18.2017
• Statements by the Ecological Society of America on the proposed U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, and on Climate Change

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . argoecology . Carl Safina . climate change . climate disruption . complex systems . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . marine biology . mesh models . model-free forecasting . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . Science magazine . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Takens embedding theorem . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Jun 15.2017
• Massachusetts Senate, Climate and Clean Energy Tour (Senator Marc Pacheco, and others), testimony

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Solar Energy Society . Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . citizenship . clean disruption . climate disruption . climate economics . climate justice . Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . decentralized electric power generation . destructive economic development . Ecology Action . global blinding . Global Carbon Project . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hermann Scheer . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . Mark Carney . Mark Jacobson . Massachusetts . Massachusetts Clean Energy Center . Massachusetts Interfaith Coalition for Climate Action . science . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  May 27.2017
• Just because the data lies sometimes doesn’t mean it’s okay to censor it

  Akaike Information Criterion . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . Bayes . Bayesian . climate . climate change . climate models . data science . dynamical systems . ecology . Eli Rabett . environment . Ethan Deyle . George Sughihara . Hao Ye . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . IPCC . Kalman filter . kriging . Lenny Smith . maximum likelihood . model comparison . model-free forecasting . physics . quantitative ecology . random walk processes . random walks . science . smart data . state-space models . statistics . Takens embedding theorem . the right to know . Timothy Lenton . Victor Brovkin

  May 1.2017
• March for Science, Boston, 22 April 2017

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . being carbon dioxide . Buckminster Fuller . Earth Day . Environmental Protection Agency . Hyper Anthropocene . Minsky moment . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . Principles of Planetary Climate . science . science education . scientific publishing . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . Spaceship Earth . Stephen Schneider . Svante Arrhenius . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . XKCD

  Apr 22.2017
• “You don’t have that option.”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Bayesian . citizen data . citizen science . Climate Lab Book . Earth Day . ecological services . ecology . environment . Hyper Anthropocene . Neill deGrasse Tyson . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reason . reasonableness . religion . science . science education . Science magazine . scientific publishing . secularism . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . United States . XKCD

  Apr 21.2017
• Global blinding, or Nature’s revenge against meteorologists who deny climate disruption

  Accuweather . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . climate . climate business . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . climate justice . dynamical systems . Eaarth . environment . evidence . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global blinding . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . Kerry Emanuel . meteorological models . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . nonlinear systems . notes . oceanic eddies . oceanography . radiative forcing . Ricky Rood . science . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization . theoretical physics

  Apr 6.2017
• Taking advantage of the natural skepticism and integrity of scientists and their co-workers, and their commitment to scientific process

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . bridge to nowhere . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . climate disruption . climate economics . climate zombies . Daniel Kahneman . destructive economic development . engineering . ethics . evidence . force multiplier . George Sughihara . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . military inferiority . Minsky moment . organizational failures . Our Children’s Trust . rationality . reasonableness . science . science denier . selfishness . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the stack of lies . the tragedy of our present civilization . United States

  Apr 1.2017
• Is the answer to the democratization of Science doing more Citizen Science?

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . astronomy . astrophysics . biology . citizen data . citizen science . citizenship . data science . ecology . education . environment . evidence . life purpose . local self reliance . marine biology . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . moral leadership . new forms of scientific peer review . open source scientific software . science . science education . statistics . the green century . the right to know

  Mar 29.2017
• `Letter to Lamar Smith’

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anemic data . anomaly detection . Anthropocene . Ben Santer . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . carbon dioxide . changepoint detection . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . Climate Lab Book . climate zombies . dependent data . environment . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . meteorology . MIchael Mann . Our Children’s Trust . physics . science . smoothing . statistical dependence . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . time series

  Mar 28.2017
• The first really scary really stupid anti-science prospect from the Trumpistas

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Anthropocene . anti-science . astronomy . astrophysics . civilization . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . energy flux . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research . NCAR . obfuscating data . oceanography . radiative forcing . risk . science . science denier . Spaceship Earth . the problem of evil . the right to be and act stupid . the tragedy of our present civilization

  Mar 17.2017