Distributed Solar: The Democratizaton of Energy
Blogroll
- All about Sankey diagrams
- John Cook's reasons to use Bayesian inference
- "Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (Jacobson, Delucchi, Cameron, et al)
- Higgs from AIR describing NAO and EA
- Lenny Smith's CHAOS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
- The Plastic Pick-Up: Discovering new sources of marine plastic pollution
- Pat's blog
- BioPython
- Slice Sampling
- Harvard's Project Implicit
climate change
- The Scientific Case for Modern Human-caused Global Warming
- Earth System Models
- Thriving on Low Carbon
- Wally Broecker on climate realism
- HotWhopper: It's excellent.
- Climate impacts on retail and supply chains
- James Hansen and granddaughter Sophie on moving forward with progress on climate
- "When Did Global Warming Stop"
- Mathematics and Climate Research Network
- Updating the Climate Science: What path is the real world following?
Archives
Blog Archives
Wind turbines don’t kill (many) birds, but people do
Posted in Ørsted, bird mortality, wind energy, wind power, zero carbon
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Für alle ohne maske
h/t Professor Christian Robert.
Posted in COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2
Tagged Berlin, COVID-19, face-mask, Germany, mask-enforcement, pandemic, pandemic-policy, SARS-CoV-2, street-advertising
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House Speaker Pelosi
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
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Where we be : 2019 is hot
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
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Negative Nuclear Power
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
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The global vegetative biosphere
(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
Harvey, Category 4, 850 mb, EarthWinds
It’s actually rather beautiful:
Posted in Uncategorized
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Responsibility
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
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Solar production at Westwood Statistical Studios
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
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Why decentralized electrical power has to win, no matter what Elon Musk says, and utilities are doomed
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
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coastal damage: when will they be abandoned?
(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.
Nor’easter
Posted in environment, forecasting, geophysics, meteorology, NOAA, oceanography, risk, statistics
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carbon dioxide
Posted in carbon dioxide, climate, environment, geophysics, meteorology, physics, science, the right to know
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double plus ungood
(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.)
November 2013 climate anomalies
Posted in climate, climate education, environment, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, science
Tagged how we doin'
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Trenberth, Fasullo, Kiehl, 2009: Earth’s global energy budget
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
Posted in climate, environment, geophysics, physics, science, statistics
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