Tag: climate change
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Predicting heatwaves with machine learning
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). As such, I included some mathematical content, but I tried to write the piece so that you could gloss over that bit without losing the gist of the story. In any case, this is an…
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Can scientists speak truth to power when they aren’t in the business of “truth”?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Can Science Speak Truth to Power? For SIAM News: Since the onset of COVID-19, government messaging has been scattershot at best. In the meantime, epidemiologists, public health experts, and…
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Measuring the gravity of climate change
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Don’t be turned off by the name of the publication! This article for SPIE Photonics is meant for anyone, and describes a very sophisticated experiment that connects my area…
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The danger of climate change may be its rate
As with many of my other contributions to SIAM News, the article “It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Rate: Rate-Inducted Tipping’s Relation to Climate Change” includes some mathematical equations, but I’ve tried to write the piece so you can understand it even if you gloss over that part. And this article in particular has some…
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The science connecting extreme weather to climate change
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains (just a few simple) equations, I wrote it to be…
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Gravitational waves and climate change
Since early 2018, I’ve contributed multiple articles to Mercury, the membership magazine for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). These articles are only available in full to members of ASP, but recently Mercury has put extensive previews for certain articles up on the website as enticement to join. One of those articles is my…
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When physicists go bad
My latest comic with Maki Naro addresses the instances where certain physicists abandon scientific ethics to promote dubious causes: eugenics, climate change denial, and so forth. Since this issue is a bit fraught, I’ve included notes and references at the end of this post. Journalism, y’know? [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most…
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Space Wombats and Penguin Poop: Spying on Animals from Orbit
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Penguin Spotting, and Other Cool Satellite Tricks You’d be surprised what you can see from 300 miles up For Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: At first glance the picture…
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The building materials of the future might be mushrooms and bacteria
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Cities of the Future Could Be Built From Mushrooms For Earther: Nearly everything about the small block says “wood”: its texture, appearance, sturdiness, and color are like an…
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Carl Sagan, nuclear winter, and the “climate wars”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! If you like my writing and want to support it, please donate to my Patreon. ] When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter Before the official report came…
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