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Not entirely on topic with the discussion, but I'm actually in the process of (hopefully) pivoting my research into climate change. I'm a physicist with experience in a variety of subjects, but more relevant for what I'm looking at is my experience in machine learning and non-stationary signal processing. The relatively new field of climate informatics appears to be, in part, an attempt at examining smaller scale effects of climate change. I want to get a handle on the variety of measurements, projects, and their significance with respect to the issue. I'm all ears for some technical overviews on remote sensing projects and a sort of catalog of observations akin to what is offered here: https://drclimate.wordpress.com/obs-catalogue/ if anyone has any suggestions. I am hoping to write a proposal around this time next year. Opportunities appear limited at the moment (as with everything in academia it seems) but I have applied to some temporary positions with NASA. Additionally, it appears that very few people have a background in energy and climate simultaneously. I am kind of aiming to become that person as my previous experience is in renewable energy research (carbon nanostructures, solar, storage). I'd love to see some resources from people with that perspective.
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I've been looking at getting into a sort of science advising with emphasis on climate and energy. Part of that process is looking at existing advisers and holy poo poo most of them in the areas I've looked at are basically gas, coal, and oil people. It's to the point where I have to be careful about describing my positions and career desires because "energy adviser" is a trigger word for oil executive in some people's mind.
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May 14, 2016 16:37
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Those are both good suggestions. The environmental and green also has some odd conflation about it too though, with a common emphasis (this is all anecdotal, I admit) on being anti-nuclear. I actually heard a guy a few years ago calling himself an environmental policy adviser. He worked with Mitch McConnell IIRC and was a coal guy.
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May 15, 2016 03:02
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Some years ago I received a death threat over some very minor, very specific, nonsense that wormed it's way through the media like that comic describes. It's amazing that they had the motivation to look at the original author's name, pick one out, get an email address, etc, but not read the very simply abstract.
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May 31, 2016 15:00
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I'm not going to give all the details but it was something along the lines of "you are trying to destroy the industry which powers this nation, liberals liek (this typo was there) you must be silenced, you will be stopped, i will seek you out (exact phrasing)" Years later I'm still waiting on some obese moron on a rascal with a Gadsen flag to show up and try to back over me. *beep, beep, beep* "I'll kill you!!!" I didn't (and still don't) think it's worth taking seriously. The particular work was on making the transparent electrode element of a solar cell with materials that aren't FTO or ITO (Fluorine or Indium Tin Oxide). It was a super minor contribution, in a mediocre journal, pushed by a mediocre lab to mediocre university PR office into a mediocre local media outlet. Some piece of poo poo undergrad (at the time) is the nation's number one energy job threat. Clearly. I want my death threats to be poetic and written well. Those will go on my CV. In all seriousness I gotta stop generalizing people like that. This person was probably impacted by the coal mines drying up or something. Also I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist 
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Speaking of leftism, I'm curious what you all think of this article, "Why Open Markets are our Best Hope in Tackling Climate Change": http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/06/01/why-open-markets-are-our-best-hope-in-tackling-climate-change/ Climate Home or something tweeted it. I'm skeptical of all of these Climate X news aggregator groups. Pretty sure they contribute nothing and are trying to make a buck. I'm skeptical when anyone states that "hey, let the markets solve the problem" and the article seems to be primarily concerned with measuring things via money -- with the exception of global transport emissions. quote:First, there must be an end to trade distortions that enable unsustainable activities or result in unnecessary waste. Fossil fuel-subsidies have no place in a climate-friendly economy and should be eliminated without undue delay. Bolding mine. One thorny issue that is never brought up by these guys is the other dimension to free trade agreements -- their effects on jobs.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:42
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CommieGIR posted:Really, is Megan McArdle the best you can do? Good break down. There is a decent cadre of people on twitter (Adam Johnson comes to mind) who call out people in the media for doing stupid poo poo like this regarding (usually) politically oriented topics. Need more of the same on climate and other scientific areas.
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Odonata posted:Oddly aggressive, awesome poem  Any good sources on the lifecycle of natural gas plants, including the fracking aspect?
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Trabisnikof posted:Do you mean a life cycle analysis of the emissions of a plant or the actual capital lifecycle of the plant (construction, o&m, decommissioning)? Emissions cycle from supply to production point, sorry. Although I guess the capital lifecycle is kind of interesting too.
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