Earth

You never stop learning, that why in my spare time I enjoy scouring the web in search of topics, courses, articles concerning the maritime sector. When I saw the online course, the title immediately caught my attention, because it’s a very special title in the eyes of a seaman. In addition to h

I really enjoyed listening to this week’s podcast. I thought an interesting point was raised that I had not previously thought of in regards to space exploration. Martin Rees made the point that space exploration endeavours should, at this point, be left to the private sector rather than the public

During Wallom‘s interview, there was a plethora of interesting and insightful conversations relating to climate change and its connection to the economy, infrastructure and corporate greed. While listening to the interview, I was extremely interested in the conversations about power lines and how th

During the interview, I was most surprised regarding the discussion of how certain we can be about predictions based on the scales on which these predictions are made. Dr. Osprey and Dr. Allen both noted that the natural variation you see on a yearly basis can influence smaller scale predictions but

I thought the interview with Dan Kammen was quite interesting. It was interesting to hear that about how social media plays a role in our understanding of phenomena including climate change and how people with different background apply the knowledge they have to understanding climate change. I th

I was surprised to learn that clouds create the most uncertainty when it comes to forecasting future climates, due to the interaction between clouds and CO2 particles in the air being highly complex. Before, I assumed that Africa would become increasingly dry, and the Sahara would continue to expan

The Interview between Professor Goodman and Dan Kamen was particularly interesting due to its mulit-layered nature. I initially thought that I was in for a climate change talk which vouched for the accuracy of most climate change models and that the world is doomed. However, I was pleasantly surpris

I found a lot of things in the interview very interesting. In particular, I found the impact of social media on climate change intriguing. The speaker gives several examples of how social media can impact climate change policies. For instance, if a company is engaging in activities that are detrimen

The Interview: https://www.labxchange.org/library/pathway/lx-pathway:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a/items/lx-pb:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a:lx_simulation:fa741ca2?source=%2Flibrary%2Fclusters%2Flx-cluster%3AModernPrediction The most interesting thing I learned from the interview wit

I thought it was particularly interesting that McCarthy spoke about how people are overly-focused on uncertainty and the nature of predictability in the realm of climate change. She pointed out that people are far more skeptical of environmental scientists than they would be of, for instance, a doct

The video which I listened to was the Lord Martin Rees podcast on climate change. One thing that I found interesting was his concession that the difference between what's possible and what's realistic are two starkly different things. He talks about the means by which people's pollutive habits co

One statement made by Lord Martin Rees that was surprising to me is that we currently possess both the financial and technological capacity to address the issues plaguing our world, yet we fail to do so due to political and wealth consolidation reasons. It would be intriguing to learn more about the

Something that surprised me was the emphasis on physics in understanding our world. Wallom really drove this point home, and I had not thought of physics having this much of an impact. Of course it makes sense that physics matters, but I had always thought there were so many other factors as well be

During this interview, I think what I found most surprising and intriguing is the fact that there is still so much that is unknown. In these scientific fields, it can often feel as though experts’ understanding is universal and information is freely at one’s disposal. However, this interview showed

I was most interested by the importance of framing in messaging for climate change advocacy. The outdated and ineffective imagery of a polar bear no longer cuts it in terms of raising awareness about the warming of the planet. Gina McCarthy puts forth a view that science must be promoted in a way th

"If we are talking about worlds that will never be realized, what do our statements about them mean?" -- Myles Osprey I found Osprey's work on counterfactual simulations to be particularly compelling. Early on, Osprey references the tension between a desire for practical science (such as predicti

The most surprising bit of information I learned from the interview is that 30% of energy use is spent on transport and 50% is used for space heating. 50% for heating space feels absolutely enormous. It is mostly not particularly cold in the UK. I looked it up and the lowest average temperature is n

I thought that it was interesting to hear a scientist like Dan Kammen speak about the importance of behavioral economics and psychology and go so far as to say that climate science itself has been overanalyzed. The former is extremely important as although climate science can tell us what must be do

I think the most surprising piece of the interview that I reviewed for this week is the level of confidence vs. uncertainty that different experts have in their own predictions in their respective fields. The experts discuss how unrealistic it is to produce a prediction related to the timeline of a

I found the conversation with Dan Kammen very engaging. One part of the interview that stuck out to me was the comparison of the Earth’s climate to human health in the sense of focusing on prevention vs. a cure, and the related idea of performing “sensitivity analyses” to show just how important inv

After watching the interview with Susan Murphy and Brendan Meade, I was most surprised to learn that the current tools we have with numerical simulations are not enough to predict earthquakes. I thought that there have been enough earthquakes throughout history to for there to be sufficient data to

I found that this interview provided some insight that aided my understanding of Palmer’s book. Palmer's beliefs around weather and climate modeling are based on the understanding that these systems are inherently complex and subject to multiple sources of uncertainty. He has argued that traditional

I thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Tim Palmer, the author of The Primacy of Doubt. It was really interesting to hear his perspective on climate and weather modeling, stochastic modeling, ensemble models, and all their purposes and values in policy and predictions today. The most surprising bit

I think something that surprised me is the idea of incorporating "noise" into models. We can't really expect models to reflect real life if the conditions are pristine and the data is without uncertainty because nature itself has some essence of unpredictability. I also thought it was interesting ho

I found it very interesting to learn that when there are financial shocks to the price of carbon fuel products, such as that prompted by the war in Ukraine, there have actually been times where extracting Carbon from the atmosphere has been cheaper than extracting it from the ground. I would have a

The most surprising piece of information I learned in the interview with Gina McCarthy is how the automobile industry has been aware of climate change and their role in it for a long time but hasn’t enacted a change. The industry has eleven years to make changes in their models, but they do not want

I was surprised, and perhaps a bit concerned, to learn exactly how much information that businesses and corporations already have on how their behavior impacts the climate. Surprised because I had thought perhaps many business executives just didn't have the full picture and knowledge, concerned bec

Interview: https://www.labxchange.org/library/pathway/lx-pathway:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a/items/lx-pb:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a:lx_simulation:6113c65e?source=%2Flibrary%2Fclusters%2Flx-cluster%3AModernPrediction From the interview, I was surprised by how Gina explained the

• I was especially interested in Administrator McCarthy’s analysis of the role of uncertainty in climate predictions, which I had not thought about before. For decades, climate change skeptics were overly focused on establishing a level of certainty in climate change predictions. But Administrator M

https://www.labxchange.org/library/pathway/lx-pathway:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a/items/lx-pb:825945a0-367c-45dc-82b7-3d160c6e6f7a:lx_simulation:6113c65e?source=%2Flibrary%2Fclusters%2Flx-cluster%3AModernPrediction I found it surprising that it's a concern to figure out what storms are wo