Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs at Stanford.
Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures.
climate / energy / etc
https://sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-caldeira
Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer. ..
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Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs at Stanford.
Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures.
climate / energy / etc
https://sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-caldeira
Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer.
Kenneth Caldeira is an American atmospheric scientist. His areas of research include ocean acidification, climate effects of trees, intentional climate modification, interactions in the global carbon cycle/climate system, and sustainable energy. .. more
I post about climate science, energy system transition, and related issues.
I try to restrain myself to information and questions, and try to avoid unseemly opining in public.
They did not like having Fauci as an independent arbiter of truth that could contradict the infallible word of the supreme leader.
They do not want any independent arbiters of fact versus fiction.
Any foundation for determination of truth, other than their own word, is a threat to their power.
Dictators need to be able to dictate what is true and what is false.
"When people we like kill people we don't like so much, the headline shall use the passive voice.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/w...
Reposted by Juan Moreno‐Cruz
We have to work so that current trends are not good predictors of the future.
Thanks: @maxroser.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
So, we are ready to believe (and say) any crazy thing (e.g., religion) if it brings us acceptance from the group.
I am not sure this property has clear ideological coloration.
How many of us can remember how we did things before the invention of the internet or the mobile phone?
Our recent era of rapid technological change is an anomaly that our evolutionary past did not prepare us for.
Our emotional structures evolved for a very different world.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Does Trump seem like he is wrestling over questions related to good vs. evil?
Don't you think the MAGA people have settled many ethical questions all too easily?
Reposted by Ken Caldeira
We'll continue pressing for the release of the transcript so the American people understand the truth.
This is mafiosi talk, a form of language in which Trump is well versed.
Look at Epstein, for example.
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"Birds of a feather stick together"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYbl...
chds.hsph.harvard.edu/joint-modeli...
QALYs (quality adjusted life years) adjusts the DALYs for the quality of life.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16877455/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11910057/
Also, back and neck pain probably results in less exercise and thereby probably has some mortality knock on effect.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Still no homicide or terrorism on the list.
I am using 2018 so as not to consider Covid effects.
www.who.int/data/gho/dat...
Still no homicide or terrorism in the top 10.
Still mostly disease, much of it preventable. (Interesting how back and neck pain scores so highly.)
www.who.int/data/gho/dat...
(Note: Earlier version of this post was for Afghanistan.)
They are all counting on it.
If preemptive pardons were possible, they would have received them already.
Everything else just accelerates death.
It would be good to try to create a figure like this in terms of "avoidable life-years lost".
I suspect such a chart might look similar.
However, problems arise when economists:
(1) believe their quantitative predictions;
(2) opine in public about what we should do.
Economic theory is an aid to thought, but quantitative predictive skill is not its forte.
Reposted by Greg Linden
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
Reposted by Mike Flannigan, Ken Caldeira, Richard Waite
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
If we could define a util, and how many utils each person had in terms of well-being, I would think one might value one's life in direct proportion to the number of utils.
Looks like it might be time to rewrite some lyrics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...
I notice that Rennert et al (2022) assume direct proportionality.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...