Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- AP Statistics: Sampling, by Michael Porinchak Twin City Schools
- Harvard's Project Implicit
- Logistic curves in market disruption From DollarsPerBBL, about logistic or S-curves as models of product take-up rather than exponentials, with notes on EVs
- Mrooijer's Numbers R 4Us
- All about models
- Bob Altemeyer on authoritarianism (via Dan Satterfield) The science behind the GOP civil war
- Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
- Darren Wilkinson's introduction to ABC Darren Wilkinson’s introduction to approximate Bayesian computation (“ABC”). See also his post about summary statistics for ABC https://darrenjw.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/summary-stats-for-abc/
- Survey Methodology, Prof Ron Fricker http://faculty.nps.edu/rdfricke/
- Team Andrew Weinberg Walking September 8th for the Jimmy Fund!
- Quotes by Nikola Tesla Quotes by Nikola Tesla, including some of others he greatly liked.
- ggplot2 and ggfortify Plotting State Space Time Series with ggplot2 and ggfortify
- South Shore Recycling Cooperative Materials management, technical assistance and networking, town advocacy, public outreach
- distributed solar and matching location to need
- Carl Safina's blog One of the wisest on Earth
- NCAR AtmosNews
- All about Sankey diagrams
- The Keeling Curve: its history History of the Keeling Curve and Charles David Keeling
- Leadership lessons from Lao Tzu
- Mertonian norms
- Subsidies for wind and solar versus subsidies for fossil fuels
- Simon Wood's must-read paper on dynamic modeling of complex systems I highlighted Professor Wood’s paper in https://hypergeometric.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/struggling-with-problems-already-attacked/
- Nadler Strategy, LLC, on sustainability Thinking about business, efficient and effective management, and business value
- Brendon Brewer on Overfitting Important and insightful presentation by Brendon Brewer on overfitting
- Slice Sampling
- Peter Congdon's Bayesian statistical modeling Peter Congdon’s collection of links pertaining to his several books on Bayesian modeling
- Risk and Well-Being
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION,
- Musings on Quantitative Paleoecology Quantitative methods and palaeoenvironments.
- "Perpetual Ocean" from NASA GSFC
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- Brian McGill's Dynamic Ecology blog Quantitative biology with pithy insights regarding applications of statistical methods
- London Review of Books
- Tony Seba Solar energy, electric vehicle, energy storage, and business disruption professor and visionary
- Dollars per BBL: Energy in Transition
- Dominic Cummings blog Chief advisor to the PM, United Kingdom
- Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model Five Thirty Eight’s take on why pandemic modeling is so difficult
- James' Empty Blog
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- Earth Family Alpha Michael Osborne’s blog (former Executive at Austin Energy, now Chairman of the Electric Utility Commission for Austin, Texas)
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- Professor David Draper
- John Kruschke's "Dong Bayesian data analysis" blog Expanding and enhancing John’s book of same title (now in second edition!)
- Karl Broman
- WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION, reviews Reviews of Cathy O’Neil’s new book
- Fear and Loathing in Data Science Cory Lesmeister’s savage journey to the heart of Big Data
- Earle Wilson
- SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
- Gabriel's staircase
- American Statistical Association
climate change
- NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index report The annual assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the radiative forcing from constituent atmospheric greenhouse gases
- Klaus Lackner (ASU), Silicon Kingdom Holdings (SKH) Capturing CO2 from air at scale
- Ricky Rood's “What would happen to climate if we (suddenly) stopped emitting GHGs today?
- Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed Barry Goldwater, Jr’s campaign to push for solar expansion against monopolistic utilities, as a Republican
- The net average effect of a warming climate is increased aridity (Professor Steven Sherwood)
- "Mighty Microgrids" Webinar This is a Webinar on YouTube about Microgrids from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), featuring New York State and Minnesota
- Model state level energy policy for New Englad Bob Massie’s proposed energy policy for Massachusetts, an admirable model for energy policy anywhere in New England
- Non-linear feedbacks in climate (discussion of Bloch-Johnson, Pierrehumbert, Abbot paper) Discussion of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2015GL064240/abstract
- Andy Zucker's "Climate Change and Psychology"
- Mrooijer's Global Temperature Explorer
- Earth System Models
- "Climate science is setttled enough"
- Transitioning to fully renewable energy Professor Saul Griffiths talks to transitioning the customer journey, from a dependency upon fossil fuels to an electrified future
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- Ellenbogen: There is no Such Thing as Wind Turbine Syndrome
- The beach boondoggle Prof Rob Young on how owners of beach property are socializing their risks at costs to all of us, not the least being it seems coastal damage is less than it actually is
- Bloomberg interactive graph on “What's warming the world''
- Social Cost of Carbon
- The Keeling Curve The first, and one of the best programs for creating a spatially significant long term time series of atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Started amongst great obstacles by one, smart determined guy, Charles David Keeling.
- Climate at a glance Current state of the climate, from NOAA
- "When Did Global Warming Stop" Doc Snow’s treatment of the denier claim that there’s been no warming for the most recent N years. (See http://hubpages.com/@doc-snow for more on him.)
- Climate model projections versus observations
- “The discovery of global warming'' (American Institute of Physics)
- “The Irrelevance of Saturation: Why Carbon Dioxide Matters'' (Bart Levenson)
- Energy payback period for solar panels Considering everything, how long do solar panels have to operate to offset the energy used to produce them?
- SolarLove
- Risk and Well-Being
- Skeptical Science
- Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
- Climate Change: A health emergency … New England Journal of Medicine Caren G. Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., and Regina C. LaRocque, M.D., M.P.H., January 17, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019; 380:209-211 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1817067
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- `The unchained goddess' 1958 Bell Telephone Science Hour broadcast regarding, among other things, climate change.
- Professor Robert Strom's compendium of resources on climate change Truly excellent
- Jacobson WWS literature index
- Reanalyses.org
- "Getting to the Energy Future We Want," Dr Steven Chu
- weather blocking patterns
- Sir David King David King’s perspective on climate, and the next thousands of years for humanity
- Dessler's 6 minute Greenhouse Effect video
- Climate Change Denying Organizations
- Ice and Snow
- "Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (Jacobson, Delucchi, Cameron, et al) Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the greatest problems facing humanity. To address these problems, we develop Green New Deal energy roadmaps for 143 countries.
- Warming slowdown discussion
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following? From Professors Makiko Sato & James Hansen of Columbia University
- CLIMATE ADAM Previously from the Science news staff at the podcast of Nature (“Nature Podcast”), the journal, now on YouTube, encouraging climate action through climate comedy.
- SOLAR PRODUCTION at Westwood Statistical Studios Generation charts for our home in Westwood, MA
- `Who to believe on climate change': Simple checks By Bart Verheggen
- Climate Communication Hassol, Somerville, Melillo, and Hussin site communicating climate to the public
- "Betting strategies on fluctuations in the transient response of greenhouse warming" By Risbey, Lewandowsky, Hunter, Monselesan: Betting against climate change on durations of 15+ years is no longer a rational proposition.
- The HUMAN-caused greenhouse effect, in under 5 minutes, by Bill Nye
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- Adobe Lightroom for scientific photos 1 December 2021
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- My favorite presentation on climate disruption these days 23 November 2021
- Photo of the week: Repeatedly distressed Mnium hornum 19 November 2021
- Gee, if all maths classes were like this, they’d be exhausting … 18 November 2021
- “Aggregating the harms of fossil fuels” 17 November 2021
- Awesome. 17 November 2021
- Price the Roads 16 November 2021
- Fecklessness 15 November 2021
- COP26, rest in agony 14 November 2021
- David Wallace Wells …The Uninhabitable Earth and its implications 13 November 2021
- Climate Music Break : Signs of Life 13 November 2021
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- Clearly not consumption based … but, well … 12 November 2021
- We are living through the closing door of climate targets 12 November 2021
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- All about net ZERO 10 November 2021
- Words from Mother Jones 9 November 2021
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- ‘Will Ford do away with the dealer model?’ 8 November 2021
- Hydrogen production from curtailed generation 8 November 2021
- Losing sight of the big picture 8 November 2021
- Stuart Stevens: Covid a Stress Test, and So Far We’re Failing 7 November 2021
- The Truth about Sea Level Rise 2 November 2021
- Climate Music Break: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Comfortably Numb 2 November 2021
- Welcome to your future 1 November 2021
- “They are liars … You can have the best capitalism in the world, but if people are dead, they’re dead. It’s over.” 1 November 2021
- “I have given up. I am here to talk about the science.” 1 November 2021
- “How should children learn about climate change?” 30 October 2021
- Future liability for fossil fuel energy producers and conveyors 29 October 2021
- Comment on “Federal policy can drive the solar industry… but still may fall short” 28 October 2021
- Yeah, like many aspects of the biosphere, forests and their contribution to sequestering Carbon is complicated 21 October 2021
- Dr Gilbz 20 October 2021
- In the field 19 October 2021
- Climate Facts from James Hansen and Makiko Sato Ahead of COP26 14 October 2021
- An Open Letter from U.S. Scientists Imploring President Biden to End the Fossil Fuel Era 9 October 2021
- “It’s the exact opposite.” 7 October 2021
- Rationale for XR, short term 5 October 2021
- “I don’t want my grandchildren to suffer” XR 5 October 2021
- Stopping climate disruption and eating cookies 5 October 2021
- Myths 5 October 2021
- Stephen Fry on XR 5 October 2021
- A very recent Bill McKibben on Where We Are 1 October 2021
- “A political dynamic …” 1 October 2021
- Meet Solkjøring 28 September 2021
- Greta, YouthCOP, 2021 28 September 2021
- First Contact, and the Long Now Foundation 26 September 2021
- Vineyard Sound, Rhode Island Sound, August, 2021 17 September 2021
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