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Wind turbines don’t kill (many) birds, but people do

Posted on 26 December 2020 by ecoquant
Posted in Ørsted, bird mortality, wind energy, wind power, zero carbon | Leave a comment

Für alle ohne maske

Posted on 15 October 2020 by ecoquant

h/t Professor Christian Robert.

Posted in COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

House Speaker Pelosi

Posted on 17 October 2019 by ecoquant

Update, 2019-10-20, 00:37 EDT And it’s not only Speaker Pelosi, but Admiral William McRaven, and then General Joseph Votel.

Posted in 45, House of Representatives, impeachment | Leave a comment

two kinds of resilient solar-powered machines

Posted on 16 October 2019 by ecoquant
Posted in American Solar Energy Society, bridge to somewhere, Buckminster Fuller, photosynthesis, photovoltaics, resiliency, RevoluSun, solar democracy, solar domination, solar energy, solar power, solar revolution | Leave a comment

Where we be : 2019 is hot

Posted on 20 August 2019 by ecoquant
Posted in AMETSOC, an ignorant American public, an uncaring American public, Anthropocene, atmosphere, bridge to nowhere, bridge to somewhere, carbon dioxide, Carbon Worshipers, climate disruption, climate economics, climate justice, climate mitigation, climate policy, coastal communities, coastal investment risks, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility, corporate supply chains, corporations, Cult of Carbon, destructive economic development, development as anti-ecology, ecological disruption, ecological services, ecology, ecomodernism, ecopragmatism, emissions, environment, fossil fuel divestment, fragmentation of ecosystems, global blinding, global warming, greenhouse gases, Humans have a lot to answer for, Hyper Anthropocene | Leave a comment

And HOW long do you think we’ve known fossil fuels were going to be a problem?

Posted on 14 August 2019 by ecoquant
Posted in Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Worshipers, climate disruption, emissions, fossil fuels, global warming, Humans have a lot to answer for, Hyper Anthropocene, Svante Arrhenius, zero carbon | Leave a comment

Negative Nuclear Power

Posted on 25 December 2018 by ecoquant

This post was originally a little too concise. (I posted it from my Google Pixel 2.) The referenced papers are Grubler (2010), Boccard (2014), and Escobar-Rangel and Lévêque, as well as a slide presentation by them. In addition, there is … Continue reading →

Posted in large scale procurement, nuclear power, science | 3 Comments

`significance testing`

Posted on 5 October 2018 by ecoquant
Posted in American Statistical Association, attribution, Bayes, probability, statistics | Leave a comment

The global vegetative biosphere

Posted on 19 February 2018 by ecoquant

(Click on figure to see a larger image, and use browser Back Button to return to blog) Data derived in part from SeaWIFS and image is from the NASA Earth Observatory here. Related links: Global Biosphere Global Biosphere over time … Continue reading →

Posted in 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 | Leave a comment

Unitarians, Dublin, IE

Posted on 27 August 2017 by ecoquant
Posted in Boston Ethical Society, Buckminster Fuller, IE, life purpose, philosophy, reason, reasonableness, science, tolerance, Unitarian Universalism, UU, UU Humanists | Leave a comment

Harvey, Category 4, 850 mb, EarthWinds

Posted on 25 August 2017 by ecoquant

It’s actually rather beautiful:

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Responsibility

Posted on 10 May 2016 by ecoquant

From China’s emissions glimpsing the peak: (Click graph for a larger figure. Use your browser Back Button to return to blog.) (Click graph for a larger figure. Use your browser Back Button to return to blog.)

Posted in Anthropocene, bridge to nowhere, carbon dioxide, Carbon Worshipers, climate change, climate disruption, climate justice, Eaarth, ecology, economics, energy, environment, environmental law, fossil fuels, games of chance, global warming, greenhouse gases, Hyper Anthropocene, ISO-NE, moral leadership, resiliency, science, sustainability, T'kun Olam, temporal myopia, the right to be and act stupid, the tragedy of our present civilization, the value of financial assets | Leave a comment

Solar production at Westwood Statistical Studios

Posted on 8 March 2016 by ecoquant
Posted in AMETSOC, Anthropocene, citizenship, clean disruption, climate, climate change, decentralized electric power generation, decentralized energy, demand-side solutions, economics, efficiency, electricity, electricity markets, Hyper Anthropocene, investment in wind and solar energy, meteorology, microgrids, rationality, reasonableness, Sankey diagram, solar energy, solar power, SolarPV.tv, Tony Seba, zero carbon | Leave a comment

Why decentralized electrical power has to win, no matter what Elon Musk says, and utilities are doomed

Posted on 16 June 2015 by ecoquant
Posted in bridge to nowhere, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, citizenship, clean disruption, climate, climate change, climate disruption, climate education, compassion, conservation, consumption, decentralized electric power generation, decentralized energy, demand-side solutions, diffusion processes, dynamical systems, ecology, economics, efficiency, energy, energy reduction, engineering, environment, ethics, exponential growth, forecasting, fossil fuel divestment, geophysics, global warming, investing, investment in wind and solar energy, living shorelines, mass transit, mathematics education, maths, meteorology, microgrids, natural gas, NCAR, NOAA, nor'easters, obfuscating data, oceanography, open data, optimization, physics, politics, population biology, Principles of Planetary Climate, rationality, Ray Pierrehumbert, reasonableness, reproducible research, risk, science, science education, scientific publishing, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar power, state-space models, statistics, temporal myopia, testing, the right to know, time series, wind power, zero carbon | 3 Comments

coastal damage: when will they be abandoned?

Posted on 8 February 2015 by ecoquant

(Click image for a larger figure.) The graphic is from a story today, on this subject, in the Boston Globe. About the recent model, and that almost unspoken risk.

Posted in carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, games of chance, oceanography, rationality, reasonableness, sea level rise, sociology, statistics | 1 Comment

Nor’easter

Posted on 25 January 2015 by ecoquant
Posted in environment, forecasting, geophysics, meteorology, NOAA, oceanography, risk, statistics | Leave a comment

carbon dioxide

Posted on 18 December 2014 by ecoquant
Posted in carbon dioxide, climate, environment, geophysics, meteorology, physics, science, the right to know | Leave a comment

double plus ungood

Posted on 26 March 2014 by ecoquant

(NOAA urges caution regarding over interpretation of the right edge of this series. They note an abrupt jump in CO2 concentration which they emphasize may be due to an unknown measurement problem. I’m sure they are investigating.)

Posted in carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, civilization, climate, climate education, ecology, environment, geoengineering, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, science | Leave a comment

November 2013 climate anomalies

Posted on 30 December 2013 by ecoquant
Posted in climate, climate education, environment, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, science | Tagged | 1 Comment

Trenberth, Fasullo, Kiehl, 2009: Earth’s global energy budget

Posted on 22 June 2013 by ecoquant

Reference: K. E. Trenberth, J. T. Fasullo, J. Kiehl, “Earth’s global energy budget”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 311–323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2634.1

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