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Entries from January 2015

To solar carport or not to carport, that is the (or at least a) question …

January 29th, 2015 · Comments Off on To solar carport or not to carport, that is the (or at least a) question …

Most people think and most analysis occurs in a stove piped fashion. Difficult in conception and more costly in resources (whether brain cells, time or cash), narrow and constrained thinking often fosters not just far from optimal but simply bad decisions.  This is true across virtually all of human existence. The energy arena is far […]

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Patriots say study proves ball deflation “Not Human Caused”

January 26th, 2015 · Comments Off on Patriots say study proves ball deflation “Not Human Caused”

This guest post is the from the passionate and dedicated James Wells. The New England Patriots pointed to a study released today which they say shows that the alleged deflation of footballs in recent games was not due to human causes. From the executive summary of the report, “DeflateGate: Basic Science and Deflating the Hyperbole”: […]

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Angling for extra credit on @CSMonitor’s #Climate #Science quiz

January 21st, 2015 · Comments Off on Angling for extra credit on @CSMonitor’s #Climate #Science quiz

The Christian Science Monitor has developed an interesting quiz: Climate change: Is your opinion informed by science? I went ahead and started to take the test. The questions ranged from science history to chemistry (which is/isn’t a greenhouse gas) to change over time to … well, a spectrum of climate issues that aren’t necessarily self-evident. […]

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Divestment would have bolstered 2014 financial returns

January 9th, 2015 · Comments Off on Divestment would have bolstered 2014 financial returns

There is a growing movement to divest from fossil fuels. This ranges from the individual (for example, my retirement accounts are down roughly 80% over the past three years in terms of ‘fossil fuel’ (at least direct) investments) to businesses to growing numbers of non-fossil fuel/climate friendly investment operations to pressure on institutions to disinvest […]

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