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  1. Oct 2022
    1. s the radiation emitted by the groundconsidered longwave or shortwave

      longwave, infared is low energy and long wavelength

    2. how do we see it

      we see the reflection of the sun's wavelengths coming to the surface and bouncing off

    3. Combine this fact with your answer from thequestions to argue whether we can see direct emission of radiation from the ground

      you cannot see direct emission of radiation from the ground, but you can see the reflection of some of it coming back from the ground

    4. If you touch the ground on a typical day, does it feel hotter or colder than the burner?

      the ground feels colder than a burner

    5. Most objects are not blackbodies. Instead they emit and absorb radiationless efficiently than a blackbody. At a given wavelength, a real object emits a fraction ελ of theradiation a blackbody would emit at a given temperature. ελ is called the emissivity

      no objects are perfect blackbodies

    6. The decrease in the wavelength of peak emission (λm) as a functionof temperature is captured in Wien’s displacement law, which states thatλmT “ b,

      decrese in wavelength of peak emission as a function of temperature is captured in Wien's displacement law

    7. Planckfunction is that hotter bodies emit more radiation and have a peak emission at a shorter wavelength.

      PLANCK Function: hotter bodies emit more radiation and have a peak emission at a shorter wavelength

    8. The albedo is the ratio of reflected light to incoming light

      albedo=ratio of reflected light to incoming light

    9. the solar zenith anglein that hemisphere is smaller, so sunlight hits its surface more directly and the local insolation ishigher. In the winter hemisphere sunlight hits Earth’s surface obliquely so that the local insolationis small and the climate ends up being cold.

      solar zenith angle being smaller=more sunlight hits the surface directly so the insolation is higher on a local basis

    10. The solar zenith angle (θz) is the angle that the Sun is from vertical atsome location. The solar zenith angle can be used to calculate the local insolation (S) with thefollowing formulaS “ S0 cos θz

      solar zenith angle

    11. Seasons are actually explained by Earth’s obliquity(see diagrams above and below), which currently has a value of 23.5 ̋. Summer happens in thehemisphere that is tilted toward the Sun during Earth’s orbit, and winter happens in the hemispherethat is tilted away from the Sun.

      seasons are explained by obliquity. Summer happens in the hemisphere that is tiled toward the Sun during Earth's orbit and winter happens in the hemisphere that is tilted away from the sun

    12. f a planet has an orbit with some eccentricity, it will receive a higher insolation at the points ofits orbit when it is closer to the Sun than at the points of its orbit when it is farther away. Earth’scurrent eccentricity is 0.0167, which leads to the insolation being about 7% larger when Earth isclosest to the Sun (January) than when it is farthest from the Sun (July)

      more insolation when close to the sun, insolation is about 7% larger when earth is closest to the sun (Jan) than when it is farthest from the sun (July)

    13. So a planet that is twice as far from the Sun will receive one quarter as much energy per unittime per unit area

      planet twice as far from the sun gets 1/4 as much energy per unit time per unit area.

    14. The distribution and total amount of solar radiation, or insolation, that Earth receivesare affected by Earth’s distance from the Sun, its eccentricity, and it’s obliquity

      the distribution and total amount of solar radiation the earth reciees is based on distance from the sun (eccentricity) and obliquity

    15. On the timescales of humans and human civilization, the Sun’s luminosity doesn’t vary bymuch. Based on fancy computer models and studying other similar stars, we think that the Sun’sluminosity varies by less than 0.5% over hundreds to thousands of years. There’s no indicationthat the Sun’s luminosity has had any significant trend over the past 100 years, when Earth’s globalmean temperature has risen by a degree Celcius or so

      The sun's luminosity varies by less than 0.5% over hundreds to thousands of years, so we can't consider it a relevant factor in global warming

    16. The Sun is the main source of energy for planet Earth. It is a “main-sequence” star,which means that it fuses hydrogen nuclei together in a thermonuclear reaction to make heliumnuclei and produce energy.

      the sun is a "main-sequence" star

    17. Electromagnetic radiation has a frequency (ν) and a wavelength (λ ). The wavelength isjust the distance between successive wave crests (peaks or maxima). The frequency is the numberof times wave crests pass you per second.

      wavelength=the distance between succesive wave crests (peaks/maxima) frequency=number of times wave crests pass you per second

    18. As we will learn overthe next few classes, everything emits electromagnetic radiation all the time.

      everything emits electromagnetic radiation all the time

    19. onduction is when heatis moved through a material by its molecules jiggling together. In conduction we can’t see anymotion occuring on a human scale.

      conduction is when heat is moved through a material by its molecules vibrating

    20. Convection is when a fluid (either a liquid like water or a gas like theatmosphere) moves to carry heat from one place to another. You might have felt this when youwere in a pond before. If you are just standing in a shallow region of a pond, sometimes thewater suddenly and briefly feels hotter or colder. This is convection of hot or cold water towardyou.

      convection is when a fluid moves to carry heat from one place to another

    21. Roughly what is the typical atmospheric CO2 concentration minimum and maximum duringglacial cycles?

      max: 280, min:180

    22. hich process produces atmospheric CO2: photosynthesis or burning fossil fuels?

      burning fossil fuels

    23. he figure below shows the wind in Yosemite on August 5, 2020. Is this an example of theclimate or the weather?

      This is a weather statistic.

    24. On January 20, 1985, the temperature in Chicago reached a low of -27 ̋F. Is this a climate orweather statistic?

      This is a weather statistic

    25. The average daily high temperature in Chicago in July is 82 ̋F and the average daily lowtemperature in Chicago in January is 22 ̋F. Are these climate or weather statistics?

      these are climate statistics.

    26. f a tree burns completely in a forest fire, where did most of the mass of the tree go?

      Most of the mass of the tree is released into the air

    27. When it is summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, the plants thereget a lot of sunlight so they can do photosynthesis. As a result, they grow and pull CO2 out of theatmosphere.

      CO2 drops in the summer time. You can see a 5-6ppm swing over the year

    28. The CO2 canvary a lot in the atmosphere, depending on how close you are to a forest and to people burningfossil fuels. The best place to measure it is high up in the atmosphere where the air gets mixed alot so that it is pretty uniform, and away from lots of people.

      Co2 levels can vary a lot in the atmosphere (more prevalent in areas where people are burning fossil fuels). So, it's best to go higher in the atmosphere to get accurate measurements

    29. Some tiny fraction of the organic molecules produced by photo-synthesis manage to not get eaten. Instead they get buried by mud and dirt and sealed off fromthe atmosphere. Over millions of years they slowly clump together and get cooked by high tem-peratures and pressures under the groun

      how fossil fuels are made, organic material being sealed off by mud and dirt and being cooked at high temperature

    30. 6CO2 ` 6H2O ÝÑ C6H12O6 ` 6O2

      photosynthesis formula

      6CO2 molecules + 6H20 water molecules = C6H1206+602

    31. The total increase in global-meantemperature between the 1800s and 2020 is about 1.2 ̋C, or if we just need a rough number, it isabout „ 1 ̋C

      total increase in global-mean temperature between the 1800s and 2020 is about 1.2 degrees celsius

    32. What you should take away is that Earth has gotten A LOT colder over the past 50million years. We don’t know for sure why this is, but we think that the main reason is that thelevels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have been decreasing

      earth has gotten a lot colder of the past 50 years

    33. Longterm changes in temperature (cli-mate) caused by humans in most places are less than a couple degrees, but temperature typicallychanges by tens of degrees between the day and night and up to a hundred degrees between sum-mer days and winter days

      way to spot the variation between weather and climate

    34. Climate is the long-term average of weather conditions over manyyears.

      definition of climate

    35. The CO2 has increased from about 280 ppm before we started burning fossil fuels to about410 ppm today

      Ln(410/280)/LN2=8.6

    36. Given your answer to the last question, by how much does theglobal mean temperature change over a glacial cycle?

      20/2

    37. Do glacial cycles start faster or end faster?

      they end faster than they start

    38. ow does this compare to the value you got in the classroom? Can you use thisas an excuse the next time you fall asleep in a class?

      no bc our CO2 has gone down throughout the class

    39. y now you should have some CO2 data from the classroom. How does the change in CO2during the class compare to the change in CO2 during glacial cycles and over the past fewhundred years

      we've actually decreased overall

    40. How does this compare with your estimate?

      less than my estimate

    41. Roughly what are the minimum and maximum CO2 levels during normal glacial cycles?

      260-200

    42. Roughly what are the minimum and maximum temperatures over glacial cycles?

      5 to - 15 relative to today

    43. o the temperature and CO2 seem to be pretty well correlated over glacial cycles?

      yes

    44. bout how long does each glacial cycle last?

      around 100,000 years

    45. Roughly what was the largest local increase in temperature between the 1950s decade andthe 2000s decade?

      2 degrees celsius

    46. What are the names and exact years of these eruptions

      Krakatau, Tambora, Cosiguina

    47. oughly when were the largest volcanic eruptions since 1750 and by roughly how much didthey cool the planet

      1835, 1815, 1783

    48. an long-term warming caused by increased CO2 and a number of short-term coolingscaused by emissions from volcanoes that block sunlight explain the observed temperaturerecord well?

      yes, as what happened with the eruption climate change

    49. hich continent has warmed the least?

      antarctica

    50. hich continents have warmed the most?

      europe and north america

    51. What was the local increase in temperature between the 1950sdecade and the 2000s decade in the southeastern US?

      comparatively more mild

    52. What would you say is the most important thing fordetermining whether a region warmed a lot?

      Whether it is in the northern hemisphere or not; America and Europe lead in terms of growth in average temperature

    53. Does there appear to be much difference between the warming in the Eastern and Westernhemispheres?

      No

    54. as there more warming in the Northern or Southern hemisphere between the 1950s decadeand the 2000s decade?

      it appears the northern hemisphere

    55. Why do you think the temperature record is more uncertain for earlier years?

      lack of information present; lack of reliable measurements from the earlier years; our scientific measurement technology has vastly improved

    56. hy is the temperature record smoother when it is averaged over a longer period?

      the temperature record is smoother when averaged over a longer period because individual deviations are removed and the increase in data creates smoother trendlines

    57. y about how much did the land surface warm between 1950 and 2000?

      by about 1 degree celsius

    58. Do the various land surface temperature records roughly agree since about 1900?

      Yes, each of them demonstrate a reasonable growth in land surface temperature.

    59. RH “ 100 ˆ ees ,

      Relative humidity formula

    60. Can you find a year where the weather was hotter for last week? Can you find a yearwhere the weather was colder?

      we were hotter than 1972, but colder than 2021

    61. ompare the data you retrieved with the extreme highs and lows for each day. Was last weekparticularly hot or cold?

      it seems we were on the warmer side

    62. Go to https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/il/des-plaines/KORD/ and comparethe high and low to the average highs and lows for each day (the climate) with the data youretrieved (the weather).

      largely they both tracked, however, the data on the website seemed more variable and the range was wider, especially in minima

    63. id the temperature warm or cool a lot from any one day to the next?

      the temperature consistently dropped after October 5th

    64. For every day in the last week, record the highest temperature (high) and the lowest temper-ature (low) during that day (the weather for the past week)

      Oct4: H=75.2; L=59.5 Oct5: H=77.9; L=60.8 Oct6: H=77.2 L=58.8 Oct7: H=59.4; L=54.0 Oct8: H=62.8; L=50.5 Oct9: H=70.9; L=50.9

    65. Weather vs. Climate:

      Weather: short-term conditions in the atmosphere; temperature, humidity, cloudiness

      climate long-term average of weather condiitons over many years

    66. 97 W

      humans need 97 watts a day to survive

    67. Cretaceous

      an asteroid caused the mass extinction, which is soemthing we don't have reference for for now

    68. hat are the minimum and maximum estimated extinction rates during the Cretaceous massextinction?

      800,000 vs 0.5, they differ by a factor of 1 million

    69. How couldthe extinction rate be much lower than a typical rate during a mass extinction?

      If your origination rate falls to an extremely low value, you can have a mass extinction even with a very low extinction rate because you just aren't replacing species that go extinct

    70. by what factor would the extinctionrate exceed the highest range possible from the typical background value?

      by about 90

      almost 100 times larger

    71. value

      For the 100 year line, the actual extinction rate (orange dot) is right at the upper limit of the yellow shading, which indicates that there isn't good evidence that the current mammal extinction rate exceeds the background.

    72. Could it reach that level if we don’t do somethingto be less destructive?

      i don't believe it has (according to graphs 1 and 2), but it seems like we are approaching it if we do not act quickly

    73. Assuming current extinction rates continue as they are and all threatened species go extinct,how many years would it take for the extinction rate among vertebrates to reach 75%?

      240-540 years

    74. much money does uncle Billy have?

      3,000

    75. s the highest percentage of threatened species

      seems to be cycodospida, with 64% being threatened

    76. s there reason for hope basedon this?

      White icons indicate a species is extinct, black icons are currnelty threatened species, so the fact that the black far outpaces the white is a good sign that, if we change our behaviors, we could save many species

    77. was

      Permian extinction

    78. Problems

      Steps for reading dense figures: 1. check the figure number (1, 2, 3, 4, etc...) 2. read the caption quickly 3. look at the horizontal and vertical axes 4. look at the data plotted and try to explain what it means and the trends to yourself 5. read the caption again carefully 6. look at the axes and data again, and make sure you understand and can explain everything

    79. Would thisprice increase seem important to them?

      well i 4 million people live on less than a dollar a day, then the maximum they could get would be a number at or approaching 365USD a year, which is a limited budget to say the least. If the price raised to 26USD for their wheat supply, then wheat becomes a major budget consideration

    80. oes this seem like a significant change?

      yea

    81. $326/metric ton in February 2011.

      326x.081=26.4USD

    82. caloric intake

      caloric intake is 2,000 calories a day, so

      726/2,000=36.3%

    83. $157/metric

      81kg

      metric ton=1,000kg

      .081x157=12.7USD

    84. 81 kg.

      81KG per capita wheat import

      81,000g per capita wheat import per year

      81,000/365=221.917808219g of wheat per day

      222g of wheat per day. 222/100=2.22x327=725.94 calories a day are dedicated to wheat

    85. day

      81,284/365=222.695890411kg

      490lbs

    86. 2010?

      81,284

    87. gallons?

      1 m^3=264.172

      so, 238.464 x 264.172 = 62995.511808. Order of magnitude of 5

      1783.161 gallons

    88. 6.9 ft by 5.4 ft by 6.4 ft.

      6.75m3

    89. “1000” into the computer program?

      lb s

    90. How many Newtons is a pound of force?

      4.44833333333

      1,000 M s-2/9,8 =102.04 Newtons

      1N/1 x 1,000 m s-2/1N x 9.8 m s 2 = 102.04 Newtons

    91. 0.78 years.

      24614422.56 Seconds; order of magnitude of 7

    92. 4.7 km/s.

      4.7km/s to 10513.6 miles per hour. The order of magnitude would be 4

    93. $300 per oz.

      338KG into ounces --> 11922.6

      11922.6 oz x 300 = $3,576,780. The spacecraft was worth more than its weight in gold by 576,780 1999 USD

    94. What is the order of magnitude?

      745.162, the order of magnitude would be 3

    95. ?

      2.1m;

      6.9x10^1= order of magnitude of 2

    96. Problems

      order of magnitude

      if over 3.16, add +1 to whatever the exponent is if under 3.16, keep the same

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    1. Little America, Antarctica, it was evidently duesolely to combustion of fuel in the immiediatevicinity of the station.

      combustion of fuel affected the CO2 measurements

    2. The content of carbon dioxide in the atmos-phere, in contrast to oxygen, nitrogen, and therare gases, has been found to be significantlyvariable (GLUECKAUF, 1951).

      key finding: the CO2 content in the sky is variable, but the degree of variability is smaller

    1. Describinga task in a tiny and unfamiliar font makes people less confident that they cansuccessfully complete a task (Song & Schwarz, 2008), irrespective of actualability. In a similar vein, making a topic or its elements more familiar byexposing participants to them also leads people to be more confident thatthey can provide correct answers, irrespective of actual accuracy. Forexample, exposing participants to the equation 45 þ 56 makes peoplemore confident they can calculate the equation 45  56

      ways to give people more confidence

    2. That is, one way to train incompetent people torecognize their incompetence is to rid them of that incompetence

      way to train incompetent poeple to recognize their incompetence is to educate them

    3. The experience of top performers is quite different. They accu-rately see that their peers are performing less well than they themselvesare—that is, their false consensus error is corrected—and thus increase howspecial or distinctive they believe their own performance and skills to be.Bottom performers, unable to recognize superior performance, do notreceive such a corrective benefit (Kruger & Dunning, 1999, Study 3).

      validation for smart people

    4. They get themselves right. What they get wrong is otherpeople. Because correct answers come relatively easy to them, they mistak-enly believe that other people must be coming to the same correct choices.As a consequence, their own performances, albeit good, are not that specialrelative to how well they think other people are doing.

      good people don't believe they are special at a skill

    5. Thus, the inflated self-ratings that poor performing participants provide may fail to reflect whatparticipants really think about themselves.

      concern over lack of incentives in dunning kreuger tests

    6. over-claiming,and described it as a form of self-enhancement that was independent ofactual intellectual ability.

      overclaiming and self enhancement issues

    7. People also display their ignorance in other remarkable ways that provide athird explanation as to why people often fail to know what they fail toknow. In short, researchers have caught people expressing knowledge abouttopics that researchers know with certainty people cannot know anythingabout. Why are they certain? They are certain because these topics do notexist

      people express knowledge about topics they 100% know nothing about as a reach around to hide their ignorance

    8. Indeed, informingthem of the flaws, they had missed caused respondents to significantly lowertheir self-ratings on their methodological skills—except, interestingly, forskills related specifically to their own research (Caputo & Dunning, 2005,Study 4)

      psych grad students once informed of flaws became less confident except for when it related to their own research

    9. People’s catalogs are likelyto be imperfect because many of their deficits are camouflaged in one of twoways. First, many instances of an ignorance fall into the category of unknownunknowns. Second, many instances of ignorance may be obscured becausethey are hidden behind misbeliefs that people mistake for valid knowledgein the domain in question. Third, people may be able to construct responseson general world knowledge, or “reach-around” knowledge appears to berelevant and reasonable when it really is not.

      how people camoflauge their lack of knowledge 1. unknown unknowns 2. ingorance can be hidden behind misbeliefs that people mistake for valid knowledge 3. may be able to do "reach around" and bring up irrelevant knowledge

    10. That assertion is that people are destined notto know where the solid land of their knowledge ends and the slipperyshores of their ignorance begin. In perhaps the cruelest irony, the one thingpeople are most likely to be ignorant of is the extent of their own igno-rance—where it starts, where it ends, and all the space it fills in-between.

      people struggling to know where they expertise slips into ignorance

    11. Economists, for example, have argued that most ignorance is rational, inthat there are several topics for which gaining expertise would just notprovide the tangible benefit to make it worthwhile

      author dislikes the economists' opinion that most ignorance is a rational phenomenon

    12. I also address a vexing question: If self-percep-tions of competence so often vary from the truth, what cues are people using todetermine whether their conclusions are sound or faulty?

      relevant question for the research

    13. In this chapter, I provide argument and evidence that the scope of people’signorance is often invisible to them. This meta-ignorance (or ignorance ofignorance) arises because lack of expertise and knowledge often hides in therealm of the “unknown unknowns” or is disguised by erroneous beliefs andbackground knowledge that only appear to be sufficient to conclude a rightanswer.

      meta-ignorance is often caused because there are "unknown unknowns" that we take axiomatically

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    1. undergraduates consistently overrated the likelihood that they would act in generous or selfless ways.

      holier than thou syndrome

    1. Decisions about pairs in which one of the citiesis not recognized (more frequently the case for Ger-man than American cities in this case) are easier (pre-dict the recognized city) than decisions in which bothcities are recognized.While the more-is-less and the less-is-more researchtraditions differ with respect to the implications of thebehavioral findings for models of decision-making,they clearly show that, contrary to intuition, moreknowledge does not necessarily improve decisions

      more knowledge does not necessarily improve decisions

    2. The les-sons from studies comparing clinical and actuarial pre-dictions are instructive. These studies have shown thatsimple statistical models do better in predicting patients’outcome than expert judgments of clinicians (Dawes,Faust, & Meehl, 1989). In fact, models based on thejudgments of experts do better than the judgments ofthe experts themselves (Dawes, 1971; Goldberg, 1970).One of the reasons for the suboptimal performance ofclinicians is that they treat each case as unique andimport knowledge irrelevant to the prediction of theoutcome.

      why models made by experts are better than the experts themselves

    3. In four experiments, weshow that more knowledge can decrease accuracy and simultaneously increase prediction confidence

      less information actually can create more accuracy since more information can sometimes give us more familiarity.

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    1. Risk analyses decompose complex processes (e.g., nuclear power plants, terrorist attacks, sea-level rise) into more knowable parts. When data are available (e.g., valve failure rates), they canbe used as model inputs. When they are not, expert elicitation can be used to provide disciplinedjudgments

      role of risk analysis

    2. A common finding in calibration studies is that confidence and knowledge are positively, but im-perfectly, correlated, such that people tend to be overconfident with hard tasks and underconfidentwith easy ones

      confidence and knowledge are positively associated

    3. Understanding any decision begins by analyzing how fully informed individuals wouldview it in terms relevant to their values

      understanding any decision begins by analyzing how fully informed individuals would view it in terms relevant to their values

    4. CPT incorporates several behavioral principles in a single model. Loss aversion is one. It re-flects a tendency to be more sensitive to losses than to equal-sized gains (e.g., losing versus winning$5). Risk tolerance, probability weighting, and choice stochasticity are other CPT principles

      people are traditionally risk averse

    5. Such questions prove so hard to answer that studies routinelyexclude many responses as seemingly not reflecting the respondents’ true preferences (Engel et al.2016). Similarly, cost-benefit analysts often ask people how much they are willing to pay, in dollarterms, to protect nonmarket goods (e.g., historic sites, endangered invertebrates, child welfare).These questions are so hard (or objectionable) that many people refuse to answer or give otherprotest responses (Meyerhoff & Liebe 2010

      issue of going too abstract bc that can obfuscate someone's true preferences

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    1. 1125: chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction inducses a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium

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  2. Sep 2022
    1. im Zachos and colleagues [7] combined a bunch of data like this to make the plot ofglobal temperature shown in the figure below

      zachos curve

    2. We can represent aerobic respiration with the following chemical equation.C6H12O6 ` 6O2 ÝÑ 6CO2 ` 6H2O

      Aerobic fixation

    3. Plants build themselves by taking carbon dioxide (CO2) andwater (H2O) from the air and combining them with power provided by the Sun to make organicmolecules.

      gloss of photosynthesis

    4. There are different ways to define mass extinctions, but one common one isthat 75% or more of species went extinct in a few million years or less.

      definition of mass extinction

    5. Global warming can beconsidered a threat multiplier in that it can make problems worse, and potentially push a marginalsituation over the limit. For example, global warming tends to make dry places drier and wet placeswetter. The Middle East is a dry place, where water resources already lead to conflict.

      global warming is a threat multiplier

    6. he vertical axis, which gives the value of the DJIA indollars, is logarithmic. This means that a given vertical displacement tells you about the percentagechange, even though the actual change in dollars for that vertical displacement is much largertoward the top of the plot than toward the bottom of it. To calculate the order of magnitude on alogarithmic plot, all we do is find the power of 10 that the number is closest to. For example, theorder of magnitude of the DJIA was $100 in 1900, $100 in 1920, $100 in 1940, $1,000 in 1960,$1,000 in 1980, and $10,000 in 2000.

      how to read logarithmic plots

    7. The wet bulb temperature is the temperature a thermometer would have if youwrapped a wet rag around its bulb and blew air over it (see figure below)

      wet bulb temperature is literally the temperature a thermometer would have if you wrapped a wet rag around its bulb and blew air over it

    8. The reason for this is that a major way humans lose heat is by the evaporation of sweat.It takes energy to evaporate sweat, just like it takes energy to boil water. When sweat evaporatesfrom their skin, humans have to give up energy and this cools them off. When the surroundingair is dry, it’s easy to evaporate water from sweat into it and it’s easy for humans to cool off

      wet bulb temperature is related to the fact that when the surrounding air is dry, it is easier to evaporate water from sweat so it is less laborious

    9. So if the relative humidity is 50%, the watervapor pressure is 50% of the saturation water vapor pressure. The relative humidity is a commonway to talk about how much water vapor is in the air

      how to think about saturation water vapor pressure

    10. maximum amount of water air can have in it the saturation vapor pressure

      saturation vapor pressure=maximum amount of water air can have in it

    11. wet bulb

      wet bulb temperature=how hot it actually feels to humans outside

    12. RH “ 100 ˆ ees

      formula for relative humidity

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  3. May 2022
    1. It is not surprising that such an ambitious agenda has generated two typesof historiography.20 Some have written Bandung into history as a story ofdisappointment, with little long-term impact on international relations andno concrete agenda that gained traction with the countries of the globalSouth. They argue that the Conference failed to have a tangible impact –there were no new international institutions that were established, and nonew collective initiatives that proved sustainable.21 Others, however, havemeasured Bandung differently. They look at the follow-up conferences thattook place in the years after Bandung and the multiple solidarity movementsthat emerged from these efforts as not insignificant for the decolonization ofinternational relations. While acknowledging the limited character of Ban-dung’s formal effects, these other accounts have described the conference asrepresenting and emboldening an emotional and psychological experienceshared across the postcolonial and non-white world

      I side bandung was inneffective

    1. Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defence to serve the particular interests of anyof the big power

      nato and warsaw pact?

    2. r economic co-operation among the participating countries on thebasis of mutual interest and respect for national sovereignty.

      letist but also economic cooperation

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    1. p r o m o te g o o d w ill a n d c o - o p e r a tio n a m o n g th e n a t io n s o f A s ia a n dA fr ic a , t o e x p lo r e a n d a d v a n c e th e ir m u tu a l a s w ell a s c o m m o n in te r e s tsa n d to e s ta b lis h a n d p r o m o te frie n d lin e s s a n d n e ig h b o u r ly r e la tio n s

      is mutual vs common a relevant distinction

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    1. The author considered population size as a possible explanatory variable.Logically, the proportional size of a country's indigenous population mightimpact success in achieving its goals either (1) because concession to a pro-portionately smaller population would present less of a threat to the interestsof political and economic elites or, (2) because a proportionately large popula-tion has more resources (voters, demonstrators) on which to draw in its struggle.Thus, logically, success may be correlated with either a small or a large popu-lation. It also is possible that both logics may combine to neutralize any sys-tematic correlation between the size of the indigenous population and thesuccess of autonomy claims in Latin America.Table 4 seems to support the first hypothesis. With the exception of Ecua-dor, the proportion of indigenous population in the "successful" cases tends tobe smaller than in the "failed" cases.

      smaller indigenous populations easier to validate/provides rights to

    2. Popular, dominant president supports indigenous rights. Three of the fourconstituent assemblies--Colombia, Peru, Venezuela--are characterized bystrong leadership from a sitting president. Colombia's president C6sar Gaviriaand Venezuela's Hugo Ch~ivez had a significant electoral 25 and substantivemandate to oversee a radical reform of democratic institutions.

      populist, dominant presidents

    3. Eachhad more than ten years experience with indigenous politics and commandedthe admiration of non-indigenous delegates and the attention of the media. In allthree cases indigenous delegates entered the assembly with concrete proposalsthat had been vetted and approved by their constituents in a series of public assem-blies

      role of an indigenous changemaker

    4. Directly elected constituent assembly. In four of our five cases constituentassemblies were convened and directly elected. The exception is Bolivia, wherePresident Gonzalo S~nchez de Lozada directed the reform via the only consti-tutionally sanctioned route--passage of a law by two successive legislatures.Consensus among the three dominant parties secured legislative approval of adraft constitutional reform law during the Paz Zamora regime (1989-1993).Sfinchez de Lozada used his legislative voting majority to secure the secondcongressional approval in 1994, together with a set of statutory laws with con-stitutional implications. S~inchez de Lozada had no need or desire to negotiatehis vision of constitutional reform with opposition parties or unrepresentedsocial movements (Molina 1997). L4Indigenous delegates participate directly in assembly.

      role of elected indigenous participation

    5. U.S. intervention also was decisive in Nicaragua. As part of its strategy todislodge the Sandinistas, the United States took advantage of the long-stand-ing conflict between the Coast and Managua by putting special emphasis ondestabilizing the region (Dfaz Polanco 1991: 191). The U.S. role in theSandinista-Miskitu conflict is not fully known, since many CIA documentsremain classified. Nevertheless,

      US negative influence to try and divide countries

    6. An influential ally increases the bargaining leverage of the autonomy claimantby taking the part of the armed indigenous group against the government. Theally's actions increase the costs to the government (e.g., strained relations witha vital foreign ally, further warfare with a U.S.-backed guerrilla force) of fail-ing to achieve an agreement. The precise actions taken vary in the two cases.In Panama, the ally pressures the government to enter into peace talks, medi-ates those talks, and acts as guarantor of the resulting agreement. In Nicaraguathe ally provides financial and military resources to armed indigenous com-batants. In this case the ally prefers that peace talks do not take plac

      role of an "influential ally" in Panama and Nicaragua. For instance American intervention

    7. In Guatemala and Mexico, indigenous organizations claiming autonomyrights fought unsuccessfully for direct participation in negotiations on indig-enous rights accords that were part of larger peace agreements. Beginning in1990, Guatemalan Maya organizations sponsored numerous fora on the peaceprocess. Documents emerging from these discussions explicitly demandedpolitical and administrative autonomy, specifically the restructuring of the statealong linguistic and ethnic lines.

      Guatemala and Mexico unsuccesful as the gov't would not negotiate with them directly

    8. Nevertheless, the region's indigenous population actively par-ticipated in the lengthy consultations on autonomy and their elected represen-tatives in the Multi-Ethnic Assembly approved the autonomy statute (DfazPolanco 1991" 191)

      representation for indigenous people

    9. As in Guatemala, the original agenda of Mexico's mainly indigenous armedmovement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), encompassedan extensive list of economic, political, and social demands. Indigenous au-tonomy claims were not explicitly advanced until the rapid consolidation of anational movement for indigenous autonomy in the months following the ini-tial 1 January 1994 uprising.

      were they just too ambitious?

    10. The uprising challenged the capacity of the newPanamanian government to retain control of the former Colombian province.The United States brokered peace talks on March 4 between Panamanian offi-cials and chiefs from thirteen Kuna communities. The agreement guaranteedthe Kuna the rights of other Panamanian citizens and recognized their right to"maintain order among themselves" without the interference of police--a par-tial concession to their autonomy claims (Howe 1998: 280-289).

      uprising created these conditions BUT there was the intervention of the United States

    11. I first discuss the circumstances in each case that led to the establishment ofthe negotiating site--peace talks to end armed conflict between the govern-ment and indigenous combatants. I then present evidence that the two POSvariables--opened access to decision-making spheres and an influential ally--were present in the two successful cases and absent in the failed ones (seeTable 2)

      peace talks as a relevant variable

    12. Onlyfive Latin American states (Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Ven-ezuela), however, constitutionally codified ethnically defined autonomyregimes. I explain why indigenous autonomy claims in these countries weresuccessful while in four other countries they failed. I argue that indigenouspeoples' organizations were successful when they could raise their autonomyclaims in a forum that was part of a larger regime bargain, allowing them toinsert their claims in a discussion of fundamental regime issues. Without theurgency of the larger regime bargain, governments are free to ignore indig-enous autonomy claims. The cases exhibit two distinct negotiating sites forthis larger regime bargain: (1) peace talks resolving an armed conflict betweenthe government and indigenous combatants; and (2) debates on constitutionalreform generated by larger crises of governability and legitimacy that requiredthe renegotiation of fundamental regime issues.

      extended summary of the thesis

      TLDR; indigenous recongition of autonomy occured either alongside peace talks to end a larger conflict or a greater debate on constitutional reform

    13. Au-tonomy is the "articulating d e m a n d " - - t h e demand through which all otherclaims are fulfilled.

      what are other alternatives to this articulating demand that could be seen as less threatening to governments in power

    14. only ethnic group in Latin Americawhose claims challenge the territoriality of states

      only ethnic group that challenges the validitiy of LatAm state territorial claims

    15. In the pluricultural state they propose, indigenous peoples are preconstitutedand self-governing collective entities within the national political community.The key institutional component of this vision is the construction of politico-territorial autonomy regimes in which each indigenous culture may freely de-velop without interference from the state and non-indigenous society.

      idea of a state within a state and how we situate that in a Weberian context

    16. (1) peace talks intended to endarmed struggle when the regime faced a serious challenge to maintain politicalorder or territorial control, or (2) a severe crisis of legitimacy and governabilitythat forced political elites to renegotiate fundamental regime structures via the pro-cess of constitutional reform.

      (1) indigenous people got recongition through armed struggle

      (2) indigenous people gained leverage through a legitimacy-based crisis

    17. Through a systematic examination of nine cases, the author identifies factors thatenabled indigenous movements in five Latin American countries to secure formalrecognition of politico-territorial autonomy regimes

      summary of the paper

      factors that allow for legitimization of indigenous movements

    1. This narrow analytic focus on governmental institutions rests on anunstated but pervasive assumption that variation in state capacity andlegitimacy does not matter for regime outcomes

      variation in state capacity and legitimacy actually does matter to regime outcomes

    2. Demands for local autonomy, however, actually challenge the ad-ministrative homogeneity entailed in decentralization and federalism

      tension between local autonomy and administrative homogeneity and federalism

    3. In short, the individual is the foundationalunit of rights and responsibilities in a polity presumed to be moving to-ward a more liberal democracy. Policymakers have voiced concernabout equalizing treatment before a state that engaged in indiscrimi-nate repression and torture and, to that end, advocate paying closer at-tention to the rule of law. In a context where dissidents were killed orjailed, indigenous people were excluded and/or repressed, and regionswere controlled by local bosses, the call for a universalizing set of normsand institutions to protect individuals is an important normative steptoward deepening democracy

      issue of neoliberal individualization

    4. In this context, indigenous movements now pose a postliberal chal-lenge, by demanding a different kind of political mapping—one thatwould secure individual rights but also accommodate more diverseidentities, units of representation, and state structures

      how indigeneity breaks traditional neoliuberal molds

    5. Yet, as the next section underscores, LatinAmerican states have not secured these neoliberal citizenship rights—in particular, for Indians—even while they start to take away the socialrights, access to the state, and indigenous local autonomy once unwit-tingly associated with corporatist citizenship regimes. This inability tosecure neoliberal citizenship regimes is in large part a function of theweak reach and retreat of the state

      issue of attaining citizenship rights

    6. n this context, state efforts to build and register peasant communi-ties had unintended consequences. Via land reform and credit pro-grams, Indians secured the spaces in which they could institutionalizeindigenous community practices at the local level.13 In more ways thanone, the distribution of inviolable communal lands to registered peasantcommunities provided Indians with the physical space not only forfarming but also for securing governance by traditional indigenous au-thorities. In this way the legal registration of communities and grantingof community-based property created a legally defined, state-sanc-tioned geographic area that allowed for the growth and/or maintenanceof politically autonomous local enclaves, indigenous culture, and polit-ical practices

      autonomy within indigenous communities

    7. Land reforms in Mexico (1934), Bolivia (1953),Guatemala (the short-lived reform of 1952), Ecuador (1964 and 1973),and Peru (1968), for example, weakened landed elites' control of thecountryside, redistributed significant tracts of land, and provided in-centives for Indians to register as peasant communities. This registra-tion reorganized the countryside along state-regulated corporatist lines,with many peasant communities joining peasant federations in hopesof gaining access to land and the state. These corporatist reforms broughtwith them the creation and expansion of social services in the areas ofagricultural support, infrastructure, education, and health. Access to landand these services was often gained through corporatist associations. Inshort, the state and union organizations imposed a class identity on Indi-ans as the ticket for political incorporation and access to resource

      and tension only arose with the neoluberal model despite this widespread redistribution

    8. The expansionof political and civil rights has tended to coincide with the decline insocial rights and the promotion of liberal or pluralist modes of interestintermediation. Organized social sectors (such as workers and peasants)have lost their state assurance of a basic standard of living and similarlyhave lost their main institutional means of accessing and occasionallyinfluencing the state. Although citizenship regimes have such signifi-cant consequences for state-society relations, however, they are neitherequal to nor derivative of political regimes. As we will see, corporatistand neoliberal citizenship regimes developed in democratic and au-thoritarian regimes in Latin America (and Western Europe, for thatmatter)

      neoliberalism's response from Latin America is diff from USA

    9. As this article highlights, however,one cannot isolate these governmental institutions from their mooringsin state and society. Indeed, we need to analyze democratic politics inthe context of state-society relations by evaluating the reach of state in-stitutions and assessing the broader social forces that surround, support,and oppose the terms of democracies' new institutions.

      reminiscent to previous readings

    10. These developments are particularly striking and consequential inLatin America. The regions' third-wave democracies have experiencedincreasing politicization of indigenous identities and organization ofindigenous movements,2 phenomena that appear to reverse the region'scomparative historical record of weakly politicized ethnic cleavages

      issue of indigenous populations being subsumed into strong cleaveges

    11. pecifically, it high-lights how new political institutions, rather than securing democraticconsolidation across the board, have in fact had a more checkered ef-fect

      new political institutions often harm democracy

    12. ccordingly, they ex-plain the capacity to consolidate democracy largely as a function ofinstitutional design

      consolidation of democracy as a factor of institutional design is contested in this paper

    Annotators

    1. nstead,qualitative evidence suggests that politicians used for-bearance to expand the welfare goods they could pro-vide and signal a commitment to poor voters

      commitment signal to poorer voters

    2. Yet, an estimated 53,000 unlicensedstreet vendors work selling everything from featherdusters to used clothing in Santiago (Appendix). Whydo these public violations of the law persist? I sug-gest that politicians rely on forbearance in low-incomedistricts as a way to win votes and signal their commit-ments to the poor

      examining street vendor laws to prove the point

    3. The main hurdle to show forbearance is evidence ofpolitical intent. Simply asking politicians why enforce-ment lags raises concerns about “cheap talk.” Politi-cians may blame a lack of resources when they useforbearance to extract votes or resources, or they mayclaim benevolent welfare motivations to mask institu-tional weakness. Due to this risk, I consider a strategyto infer intent from the elasticity of enforcement. Elas-ticity refers to how responsive one variable, in this caseenforcement, is to a change in another, like budgets, en-forcement costs, or competing social concerns.

      looking at elasticity since this is a tricky metric to analyze

    4. Second, forbearance can be provided outside ofthe normal budgetary and legislative process, mak-ing it both an ideal source of corruption and infor-mal welfare provision. It is a “hidden” transfer.

      value of a hidden transfer

    5. I em-phasize three general features that can lead politiciansto favor forbearance as a distributive tool: the trans-fers can be (1) revoked, (2) adjusted informally, and(3) targeted to those willing to violate the law.

      motivations for why a politican would be open to violating the law

    6. If a governmentdoes nothing to prevent squatting, then the wealthy cantake valuable pieces of land to build large houses andabsorb the greatest absolute benefit from governmentleniency. However, the poor may receive the maximumrelative benefit given that they spend a greater shareof their income on housing and they are potentiallyjudgment proof in the case of prosecution. Weak en-forcement thus has mixed distributive effects: it is likelyregressive in absolute terms, and progressive in relativeterms.

      weak enforcement has mixed distributive effects

    7. I demonstrate how mayors in poordistricts systematically prevent the police from usingexisting enforcement resources as a way to build elec-toral support

      mayors, so maybe this is more a local than national issue?

    8. This article introduces the concept of forbear-ance to describe the intentional and revocable nonen-forcement of law. Forms of forbearance differ in theirdistributive incidence and mode of delivery, rangingfrom a well-studied corrupt subtype in which politi-cians carve out legal exemptions for their cronies to aless expected subtype in which laws are waived for thepoor as a form of informal welfare provision. Acrosssubtypes, I argue that forbearance has three distinctfeatures that make it a powerful form of distribution:it can be revoked, hidden from legislative debate andoversight, and used to target resources to those willingto bear the costs of illegality

      power of forebearence for electoral outcomes

    9. Indeed,classic definitions of state capacity center on whetherauthorities can make and enforce binding rules forsociety (e.g., Mann 1984, 188). The size of informaleconomies even proxies for state capacity in empiricalwork (e.g., Polidano 2000)

      issue of informality finally being brought up

    10. I instead introduce the concept of forbearance, or the intentional and revocablenonenforcement of law, and argue that politicians often withhold sanctions to maximize votes as well asrents. Drawing on tools from price theory and distributive politics, I present several methods to separatesituations when politicians are unable versus unwilling to enforce the law.

      unable vs unwilling to enforce the law is an important distinction for LatAM

    Annotators

    1. Thus, I argue that the countries in cluster two not onlyexperienced a distinct form of political incorporation, but this process was slowed bythe prevalence of racial and ethnic diversity

      racial diversity damages the efforts at preventitive social policy

    2. One final characteristic that differentiates the top-performing social policy regimeis the fact that all four countries are characterized by a low level of ethnic and racialdiversity. Indeed, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the primary division in the region withregard to racial and ethnic diversity is between the countries in the mobilizingincorporation-industrialist regime (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) andthe remaining three groups of states.

      low levels of ethnic diversity create a more socially open framework

    3. The democratic setting in Costa Rica laid the groundwork for aliberal project that extended basic citizenship rights to broad sectors of society,prompting the incorporation of marginalized groups

      sure, but then liberalism and not demcoracy or industrialization could be a safer variable for analysis?

    4. The Costa Rican case provides evidence of the way in which the incorporation ofunderprivileged groups can occur even in a setting of minimal industrialization. Inthis way, Costa Rica reveals a different path to the formation of extensive risk coping

      yes, but then what is the point of your cluster analysis then?

    5. While the fact that this policy innovationhappened in a non-democratic setting may raise questions about the relevance ofmobilization in prompting the new system, it would be erroneous to conclude thatthe reforms were unaffected by this impetus. Such a conclusion would neglect thefact that policies result from long-term processes. In the case of Chile’s pensionsystem, the thrust for such reforms took root and acquired power during the periodof industrialization and political incorporation of Labor that preceded the 1924 coup

      again, there are seeming wholes in this argument

    6. reveals that sustained democracy can compensate for low levels of industrialization,generating a setting where social rights are central to political debate

      i am skeptical of how you can say democracy is equivalent in effect to industrialization for the promotion of social rights

    7. General expenditure measures also limit the ability of researchers to assess howfunding is distributed within policy areas. The decision about how governmentspending is to be divided among different programs has profound effects on whichsocietal groups are protected and which remain exposed to risk. It is, therefore,important to understand not only how much is spent on a given sector, but also howthe funds are distributed between programs

      expenditure-based analysis is insufficient

    8. Such data do not, for example, permit an assessment of who isbenefiting from the spending

      previous literature data does not show who is benefiting from this spending

    9. 2008 Brazil spent just over 26%

      Brazil spends 19% more than Guatemala does on welfare spending

    10. “corporatistincorporation-industrialist.”

      where prevention programs are more moderate since mobilization was less severe

    11. I, therefore, expect thatcountries where political incorporation occurred by means of mobilization will becharacterized by high levels of risk prevention and risk coping coverage. I call thissocial policy regime “mobilizing incorporation-industrialist.”

      mobilizign incorporation-industrialist

      high levels of risk prevention and risk coping

    12. These studiesshow that in settings where marginalized groups are incorporated into the politicalarena and possess mobilizing power, there is greater pressure on the state to respondto their needs and expand social protection policy. I define political incorporation assomething different from simple voting rights. Rather, I contend that politicalincorporation occurs when marginalized sectors such as labor, peasants, and/or theurban informal sector enjoy institutionalized access to the political arena via partiesor other organizations and when these groups are capable of influencing nationaldebate.

      how can you measure such a thick idea of political incorporation

    13. I define social policy regimes as the package of state-provided policies thatprotect citizens from poverty and re-distribute income and life opportunities. Iargue that these regimes consist of two policy dimensions: one that seeks toprevent social risks via investment in human capital, which I call risk prevention,and a second that addresses risks once they have occurred through subsidies andother direct forms of direct intervention, which I refer to as risk coping.

      social policy regimes involve risk coping + risk prevention and they aim to protect citizens from poverty and redistribute the playing field

    14. This article builds and improves upon previous research,seeking to both classify Latin American social policy regimes and provide a theoryto explain those groupings. The theory moves past economic and socio-structuralfactors, incorporating politics into the explanation of why Latin American statesexhibit distinct social policy regimes.

      why Latin American states exhibit distinct social policy regimes and classifying them is the main effort for this paper

    15. he analysis provides evidence that acountry’s record of industrialization, the nature of political incorporation, andlevels of ethnic and racial diversity are key determinants of the size and scope ofLatin America’s social policy regimes

      social policy regimes determined by 1. record of industrialization 2. nature of political incorporation 3. levels of racial diversity

    Annotators

    1. we show that environmental legislation isa policy domain that is increasingly relevant to large producers’core interests. Second, we argue that environmental outcomes can-not be fully understood without analyzing political factors such asthe power of economic interests affected by enforcement.

      takeaways

    2. The compensatory fund53 was intended to remunerate producersin red and yellow areas for their environmental services—i.e., theiropportunity cost of preserving the forest—by subsidizing projectsfor conservation and for sustainable management activities. The factthat provinces only received a small proportion of the resources towhich they were entitled gave governors discretion to determinewho would benefit from the fund.54 In both Santiago and Chaco, gov-ernors chose to allocate funds to appease organized groups thatresisted the expansion of the agricultural frontier rather than reach-ing producers or landowners who could illegally engage in large-scale deforestation in the absence of positive incentives for compli-ance.

      subsidization

    3. The intervention government intro-duced important reforms to stop deforestation and protect peasantcommunities. It banned forest clearings and set up a Crisis Com-mittee with producers, peasant organizations such as MOCASE,and NGOs. It also created the Observatory of Land to help solveland disputes and issue titles to low-income occupants, promotedthe revision of clearing permits, and asserted the urgent need topass legislation on land use

      strength and speed of political reactions

    4. As in the other core Chaco provinces, the most controversialissues were the design of the zoning map and the regulation of landuse. Producers, especially investors from outside the province,pressed for a larger share of green areas in order to clear them foragriculture. Representatives from the timber industry were alsointerested in reduced levels of conservation, yet they clashed withthe agricultural sector because they feared that if forests were clas-sified as ‘‘green,” they would be exhausted. Unlike agriculture, more-over, timber extraction could be allowed in yellow areas, and thusclassifying a large share of forests as yellow would benefit timberproducers at the expense of agricultural producer

      controversial issues on the state level

    5. The NFPR stipulates that OTBNs should be designed through aparticipatory process and approved by the provincial legislature,potentially opening up two institutional spaces for social influence.Governors have the upper hand during this process, as they canmake it more or less participatory, draft the original bill, and intro-duce changes through vetoes and decrees

      state legislative process

    6. A substantial body of research suggests that state capacity isfundamental for policy implementation. Subnational states thatare more capable (Levitsky & Murillo, 2013) would allow for betterenforcement of the NFPR. However, core Chaco provinces exhibitsimilar scores on commonly used proxies of state capacity suchas provincial revenue and the infant mortality rate.35 At the sametime, provinces received comparable national funds to build moni-toring capacity, which were allocated according to the size and clas-sification of their forestlands. None of these metrics corresponds toprovinces’ implementation scores

      importance of creating an equal playing field for analysis

    7. Indigenous communities,which are numerous and well organized, have also pressed for astrict OTBN

      subgroups within conservation coalition

    8. In Salta, large producers areespecially powerful; they control 75 percent of total farmland,and farms >10,000 ha comprise 47 percent of the province’s totalfarmland. At the other extreme, Chaco has an important but smal-ler share of total farmland in large parcels (31 percent); thus, largeproducers in this province are not dominant actors in rural politicsand lack the structural power that they enjoy in the other Chacoprovinces

      comparisons to describe

    9. Implementation of the NFPR: consistency of design and enforcement, core Chaco provinces, 2007-201

      NFPER graph