The Wrong Model

Oil Leak Widget

by estiens May 20, 2010

Nice little widget from PBS that allows you to adjust the flow rate for different possible Deepwater Horizon scenarios and see the total oil leaked. Would be nice if they also let you project out into the future and benchmark it against other large oil spills We know that the NOAA/BP estimate is off, since [...]

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Death in the shade

by estiens May 19, 2010

Stuart Staniford at Early Warning posts excerpts from a new paper in PNAS that estimates that given the worst-case IPCC scenario (which remember, we have had to, err, make worser a number of times already) we have about a five percent chance of global warming creating a situation in which a large fraction of the [...]

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The increasing racial wealth gap

by estiens May 18, 2010

In the past few months, there have been a variety of reports that have come out looking at the growing racial wealth gap in the United States. The most recent was a study from Brandeis University showing both that the black/white wealth gap has quadrupled in about one generation, and that income disparities themselves aren’t [...]

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Deepwater Horizon potentially much worse than reported

by estiens May 14, 2010

There have been a variety of back-of-the-envelope calculations trying to estimate the rate of the current oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them have been orders of magnitude higher than the official estimate of 5000 bbl/d. (Even though neither BP nor NOAA have been repeating those numbers for the past week, the [...]

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Summer Conferences and Workshop

by estiens May 13, 2010

Conferences and Workshops that may be of interest to you. ISSS Conference: Governance for a Resilient Planent Waterloo, Canada – July 18-23 System Dynamics Society Conference Seoul, South Korea – July 25-29 American Society for Cybernetics conference July 30-August 2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Summer workshops at the Santa Fe Institute Upcoming ISEE and Waters Foundation [...]

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