Oh, the usual, a few likes and that’s about it. Mind you, I only have about 60 FB friends, so for me getting any number of likes or reposts in the double digits is unusual. And NO reply from the original poster who kicked all of this off...and he’s my cousin who I otherwise get along very will with

Yes, same has happened here. We are fighting the kinds of cognitive biases that it make it harder to dispel a falsehood once it’s out there or overcome people’s self-confirming biases when the truth runs counter to their experience or particular social or political orientations. And in addition, we’ve had the active…

No problem, I honestly wasn’t sure where you were coming from or if I was missing your point. And yes we will need resources, but trust me, people are spooked in higher ed. A lot of us felt/feel that we missed something big and got caught asleep at the wheel....that we should have caught on to this earlier and been…

Im not sure I get you. I think I’m doing more than most in trying to deal with this issue. The hard work isn’t stopping my colleagues from spending day long retreats and multi day conferences trying to figure out ways of combating this through better pedagogical and curricular practice. My point is that the technical…

As one of those “academics” referenced by Mr. Stamos, I have to agree with him on a couple of points. My university—-like most others—is VERY concerned about the nexus of information literacy and critical thinking, as it applies to online content. And it IS a different beast than applying the same general principles…

Equatorial travel here I come!

Yeah do I have Google, and that’s why I use it to try to respond with actual metrics instead of vague assertions regarding drag strip cars. That was one event of methane release. Are you really going to argue that this one event superscedes all other environmental disasters in the entire United States? including New…

Totally agree on the nuclear...but I think you underestimate wind, solar and storage in combo. CA has a ton of offshore locations where the wind is near constant, and in fact peaks after sunset—-just as solar goes bye-bye. It won’t be enough to carry the full load. But CA has already had days when in nearly 70% of…

Aliso Canyon was a clusterfuck. My godson and two of my oldest childhood friends live in Porter Ranch. but no one died from that leak and based on the chemical profile, no one will. The long term effects are also questionable based on the best science we’ve got. Compared to other environmental calamaties, that doesn’t…

Well now, the more I look at the numbers the more optimistic I’m becoming about renewables in CA. Not only are the numbers going up significantly year to year, the increase seems to be accelerating. From 2006 to 2011 we added only about 3 percent to the renewables column for total energy production. From 2001 (the…

Ok, fair enough, that explains it. I was not including natural gas. If you look at my original post that you first replied to. I specifically mentioned natural gas as being cost competitive to coal, in other words as an alternative. Given it’s about half as polluting as coal, and cheaper, I see it as a win-win. And I…

Yes, so? I think you are losing the thread of your arguments here and flailing about. The discussion was about how electricity is being generated in CA and how that factors into the carbon footprint of electric cars. What does CA’s total energy portfolio have anyting to do with that?l Of course we still have to pump…

???? Did you look at the table you linked to for 2016? I just did and whether you define total energy used to power anything in CA by in-state production or mix in what we buy and “import” in from other places via interstate transmission lines (total power mix), Coal accounts for 0.16% or 4.13% and oil for .02 or…

Not in CA where most of these things are and will be sold....and given how cost competitive natural gas and renewables have become/ are becoming, it’s not a stretch to presume that even in states that currently use more coal in electric plants to produce electricity, those equations will change.

Ok, but I think you are making a bit of a straw man argument with the state of these supposed reversals you point to. If one study finds something and another finds something else that is contrary, that is not a “reversal” unless you were ready to throw all your weight, belief and confidence into that one first…

You are confounding different things here. Correlation does not undeniably mean causation, sure, and every research methods/ stats 101 college student is basically forced to memorize that line. However, correlation is almost always a prerequisite for causation, so it absolutely fine and defensible to begin there with…

But the irony is that the Harvards of the world often do a much BETTER job in term of accepting/admitting and graduating African American students. If you look at their latest numbers for the incoming Freshman class, it’s hard to be critical on that score alone. The bigger problem are the big, “middle-level”…

I’d like to see a clear cut case of that level of cultural bias in the verbal aptitude section of modern SAT tests because I would immediately drop it into my classroom lecture on the inequities of SAT tests....but I’ve yet to actually find one. You hear these stories every so often. Version I’ve heard most recently…

College professor here, I study academic outcomes, have focused on under-represented and historically disenfranchised groups, and are FULLY supportive of affirmative action. In fact, I wish it was more comprehensively and aggressively applied. Plenty of empirical evidence that a diverse campus benefits all students,…

Perhaps this is implied in how we we are defining “driver”, but for a typical driver, driving on typical roads, I would consider oversteer as a bigger problem than understeer, which is why—-as has often been reported—-automakers have baked in understreer in most cases. On track days, sure, understeering is more of a…