Category: sea level rise

• “Things going fast”: Summary of a class on climate disruption taught by Professor Ricky Rood

  AMETSOC . Antarctica . Arctic . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . environment . evidence . fossil fuels . geophysics . glaciers . glaciology . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . liberal climate deniers . MA . marine biology . Massachusetts . meteorology . methane . MIchael Mann . natural gas . New England . physics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rationality . reasonableness . Ricky Rood . science . sea level rise . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . zero carbon

  Apr 9.2016
• “What’s the deal with sea level rise?”

  adaptation . AMOC . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . Carbon Worshipers . civilization . dynamical systems . Eaarth . geophysics . glaciers . glaciology . global warming . Guy McPherson . Hyper Anthropocene . ice sheet dynamics . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . planning . prediction . Principles of Planetary Climate . regime shifts . risk . science . sea level rise . the tragedy of our present civilization . thermohaline circulation . Wally Broecker

  Mar 22.2016
• HadCRUT4 and GISTEMP series filtered and estimated with simple RTS model

  AMETSOC . anemic data . Bayesian . boosting . bridge to somewhere . cat1 . changepoint detection . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . complex systems . computation . data science . dynamical systems . geophysics . George Sughihara . global warming . hiatus . information theoretic statistics . machine learning . maths . meteorology . MIchael Mann . multivariate statistics . physics . prediction . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . regime shifts . sea level rise . time series

  Mar 18.2016
• seek the beautiful, and avoid “climate justice”

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . Canettes Blues Band . Cape Wind . capricious gods . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . coastal communities . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . denial . destructive economic development . disingenuity . ecology . economics . electricity markets . energy . energy utilities . engineering . environment . extended supply chains . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . global warming . greenhouse gases . greenwashing . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . liberal climate deniers . living shorelines . local generation . meteorology . microgrids . rationality . reasonableness . regime shifts . risk . Sankey diagram . Scituate . sea level rise . selfishness . sociology . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . T’kun Olam . temporal myopia . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Feb 23.2016
• Underestimated Rates of Sea Level Rise

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . coastal communities . ecology . floods . Florida . fossil fuels . geophysics . glaciers . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . IPCC . James Hansen . John Englander . Richard Alley . Scituate . sea level rise . Stefan Rahmstorf . temporal myopia . the right to know . Wally Broecker . zero carbon

  Feb 4.2016
• Techno Utopias

  adaptation . Anthropocene . bollocks . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . coastal communities . complex systems . consumption . COP21 . corporate supply chains . denial . disingenuity . economics . environment . ethics . evidence . exponential growth . extended supply chains . FEMA . finance . fossil fuels . games of chance . geophysics . glaciers . global warming . greenhouse gases . greenwashing . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . ignorance . IPCC . James Hansen . Kevin Anderson . Lenny Smith . liberal climate deniers . living shorelines . MA . meteorology . Neill deGrasse Tyson . oceanography . physics . planning . population biology . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . regime shifts . Sankey diagram . science . sea level rise . selfishness . silly tech devices . Techno Utopias . the right to know . the value of financial assets

  Feb 3.2016
• “That time has come and gone.”

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . environment . geophysics . glaciers . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . IPCC . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . Spaceship Earth . temporal myopia . UNFCCC

  Dec 22.2015
• dynamic linear model applied to sea-level-rise anomalies

  Bayesian . citizen science . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . dynamic linear models . floods . forecasting . Frequentist . global warming . icesheets . information theoretic statistics . Kalman filter . meteorology . open data . sea level rise . state-space models . statistics . time series

  Dec 11.2015
• What the future of energy everywhere looks like

  adaptation . Anthropocene . capricious gods . chance . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . 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 . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . living shorelines . mesh models . meteorology . microgrids . mitigation . obfuscating data . oceanography . physical materialism . physics . pipelines . planning . politics . prediction . probabilistic programming . public utility commissions . PUCs . quantum . reasonableness . reproducible research . risk . Sankey diagram . science . sea level rise . selfishness . solar energy . solar power . SolarPV.tv . Spaceship Earth . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . Svante Arrhenius . taxes . temporal myopia . the right to know . the value of financial assets . transparency . UU Humanists . WHOI . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Nov 2.2015
• Global Sea Level Rise by NASA Satellite since 1993

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . Cauchy distribution . citizenship . civilization . climate change . climate disruption . destructive economic development . economics . floods . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . living shorelines . MA . meteorology . oceanography . planning . politics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . statistics

  Nov 2.2015
• Kerry Emanuel and Svante Arrhenius, hurricanes and climate disruption: A 2015 update

  Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . geophysics . global warming . hurricanes . Kerry Emanuel . meteorology . oceanography . physics . prediction . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise . sustainability . Svante Arrhenius

  Oct 27.2015
• Miami — Why Worry?

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . climate change . climate disruption . denial . disingenuity . environment . floods . Florida . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . rationality . reasonableness . sea level rise . Tamino

  Oct 22.2015
• New Study Projects That Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Will Intensify

  Anthropocene . capricious gods . carbon dioxide . civilization . climate . climate disruption . ecology . exponential growth . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . James Hansen . meteorology . NASA . NOAA . oceanography . physics . prediction . risk . science . sea level rise . sustainability . temporal myopia . WAIS . WHOI

  Oct 13.2015
• The Art and Science of Stefan Rahmstorf

  Anthropocene . art . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . Cauchy distribution . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . destructive economic development . disingenuity . ecology . economics . education . environment . ethics . Exxon . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . humanism . Hyper Anthropocene . icesheets . IPCC . James Hansen . mathematics . maths . physical materialism . physics . rationality . reasonableness . science . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know

  Sep 18.2015
• No turning back: On the effectiveness of artificially removing emitted CO2 from atmosphere for remediating climate disruption

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . denial . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuels . games of chance . geoengineering . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . scientific publishing . sea level rise . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . thermodynamics . zero carbon

  Sep 16.2015
• Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance (from SCAR report)

  Antarctica . Anthropocene . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . Cauchy distribution . climate . climate change . climate disruption . environment . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . oceanography . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . sustainability . WHOI

  Sep 9.2015
• +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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Welcome to the Hyper-Anthropocene

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . astrophysics . bifurcations . Boston . carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . Cauchy distribution . chance . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . engineering . environment . exponential growth . finance . floods . forecasting . games of chance . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . investing . IPCC . living shorelines . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . seawalls . temporal myopia . the right to know

  Jul 23.2015
• References Regarding the 450 ppm CO2 Ceiling

  adaptation . Antarctica . Anthropocene . Arctic . arXiv . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . carbon dioxide sequestration . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . compassion . conservation . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . engineering . environment . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . oceanography . physics . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise . solar power . statistics . sustainability . the right to know . WAIS . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 22.2015
• What Boston will eventually look like under TWO DEGREES global warming

  adaptation . Boston . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . ecology . environment . floods . forecasting . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . IPCC . living shorelines . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . nor’easters . oceanography . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . sea level rise . statistics . zero carbon

  Jul 16.2015
• Links explaining climate change Kevin Jones liked

  Anthropocene . astrophysics . bifurcations . biology . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . chance . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . climate models . climate zombies . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamical systems . ecology . economics . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . environment . exponential growth . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuels . geophysics . global warming . history . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . living shorelines . mass extinctions . mass transit . mathematics . maths . meteorology . methane . microgrids . model comparison . NASA . natural gas . NCAR . NOAA . oceanography . physics . politics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . Ray Pierrehumbert . reasonableness . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . sea level rise . sociology . solar power . statistics . temporal myopia . the right to know . Tony Seba . WHOI . wind power . zero carbon

  Jul 13.2015
• “Time to take out the trash”

  carbon dioxide . Carbon Tax . citizenship . civilization . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate education . compassion . conservation . decentralized energy . denial . ecology . economics . education . energy . environment . ethics . exponential growth . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . humanism . investment in wind and solar energy . IPCC . living shorelines . meteorology . physics . politics . population biology . public transport . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . sociology . zero carbon

  Jun 15.2015
• ‘The Solutions Project’

  bifurcations . civilization . clean disruption . climate change . climate disruption . compassion . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecology . economics . efficiency . environment . ethics . forecasting . fossil fuel divestment . geophysics . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . meteorology . microgrids . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science education . sea level rise . solar power . sustainability . wind power . zero carbon

  Jun 12.2015
• on the state of New England wind power

  climate change . climate disruption . geophysics . hurricanes . meteorology . nor’easters . oceanography . rationality . reasonableness . science education . sea level rise . WHOI . wind power

  Jun 1.2015