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Comment on Pb and crime? by John

John — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:17:29 +0000

Interesting aside- apparently one of the more significant remaining sources of lead pollution, with important implications for both human health and wildlife preservation, is hunters’ bullets:
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/will_lead_in_bullets_finally_kill_off_california_condor/2647/
Unfortunately, apparently efforts to get people to transition to using bullets made from more environmentally metals just gets people riled up about gun control.

Comment on The EIA Energy Outlook seriously bums me out by Domestic Energy

Domestic Energy — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:21:03 +0000

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Comment on Quality control in Excel spreadsheets- a serious and universal issue! by John

John — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:52:49 +0000

More quality research from the economics community:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/30/the-studies-behind-austerity-are-weak-the-study-behind-uncertainty-is-worse/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein
This is the same kitschy method that I and many of my colleagues use in the introductions to our dissertations to construct a “my research topic is relevant because the number of publications are increasing” plot- it’s a bit silly, and certainly not very useful in any quantitative sense. In this case, using media reports as an economic indicator when you can’t even tell if “uncertainty” is being reported to increase or decrease, is beyond absurd. What are the odds that this paper was peer reviewed?

Comment on IPCC systematically low-balling climate estimates? by Update to ‘IPCC systematically low-balling climate estimates?’ | Energy and the Future

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:01:25 +0000

[...] months ago I wrote a post about how several speakers at the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting suggested that the IPCC may be [...]

Comment on renewable energy doesn’t offset fossil fuel use by Daniel Lieberman

Daniel Lieberman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:27:31 +0000

The point is that renewable energy generation does not displace fossil fuel generation; in the global context, it simply adds to it. The global energy system is not static; it is growing. Renewable energy capacity growth can not keep pace with population growth and economic development goals, both of which call for increasing total global energy demand.

Comment on geoengineering news roundup by John

John — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:56:55 +0000

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6131/412.2.full#sec-7

Comment on Quality control in Excel spreadsheets- a serious and universal issue! by John

John — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:44:24 +0000

Apparently economists typically don’t bother with that formality:
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/is-more-peer-reviewing-the-answer/

Comment on Quality control in Excel spreadsheets- a serious and universal issue! by Paul

Paul — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:25:51 +0000

holy geez! The original paper wasn’t peer reviewed??

Comment on Quality control in Excel spreadsheets- a serious and universal issue! by John

John — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:21:10 +0000

Awesome:
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-april-23-2013-eric-schmidt

Comment on Quality control in Excel spreadsheets- a serious and universal issue! by Paul

Paul — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:38:27 +0000

Go UMass Amherst! (my alma mater)