Candidate posts to move to CIunit
Ken Caldeira’s blog at https://kencaldeira.com holds 72 posts written between 2015 and 2025. Some are write-ups of peer-reviewed papers and would sit more naturally on CIunit; others are personal writing that should stay on the blog.
Purpose of this document: hand it to whoever is building ciunit.github.io so they can see what content is available, what each post contains, and where to find the source. Once a post has been moved to CIunit, it can be deleted from the blog (and ideally redirected).
Generated by tools/ciunit_handoff.py from tools/post-classification.tsv. The categories are a judgment call — edit that TSV and re-run to revise them.
Summary
| Category | Posts | Words | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writes up a specific paper | 13 | 14,831 | 44 |
| Substantive science, not tied to one paper | 17 | 30,879 | 85 |
| How research works | 22 | 13,738 | 15 |
| Stays on the blog | 20 | 15,886 | 84 |
| Total | 72 | 75,334 | 228 |
How the source is laid out
Each post is one Markdown file in _posts/ of the KCaldeira/kcaldeira.github.io repository, named YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md, with YAML front matter (title, date, slug, wp_id). Body conventions, which a receiving site will need to handle or translate:
- Images: `
…
</figcaption>
</figure>
` — the files live under assets/images/ in the same repo, already web-optimized.
- YouTube: `
</figure> `
- Galleries: `<div class="gallery">
</div> `
- Tables are GitHub-flavoured Markdown pipe tables.
- A few posts use
<span class="tc-blue">…</span>and similar. This is meaningful, not decorative — it marks quoted email and external material. Preserve the distinction if these posts move.
Writes up a specific paper (13)
These posts explain or announce a particular peer-reviewed paper, usually Ken’s own. They map directly onto CIunit publication pages and are the strongest candidates to move.
Where are the abundant and reliable winds?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2024/03/where-are-the-abundant-and-reliable-winds/
- Source:
_posts/2024-03-13-where-are-the-abundant-and-reliable-winds.md - Size: 2,436 words, 10 image(s)
- Subject: Antonini et al., doi 10.1038/s43247-024-01260-7
- Cites:
The value of reducing the Green Premium
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2023/10/the-value-of-reducing-the-green-premium/
- Source:
_posts/2023-10-09-the-value-of-reducing-the-green-premium.md - Size: 1,711 words, 6 image(s), 1 video embed(s)
- Subject: Caldeira, Duan & Moreno-Cruz, ERL 18 104051 (2023)
- Cites:
Multi-decadal country-level regressions on GDP growth and temperature change
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2022/11/multi-decadal-country-level-regressions-on-gdp-growth-and-temperature-change/
- Source:
_posts/2022-11-09-multi-decadal-country-level-regressions-on-gdp-growth-and-temperature-change.md - Size: 1,472 words, 9 image(s)
- Subject: GDP growth vs temperature regressions
- Cites:
Hydrogen production from curtailed generation
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/07/how-much-hydrogen-could-we-produce-without-adding-additional-generation-capacity/
- Source:
_posts/2021-07-07-how-much-hydrogen-could-we-produce-without-adding-additional-generation-capacity.md - Size: 1,038 words, 4 image(s)
- Subject: Advances in Applied Energy, doi 10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100051
- Cites:
Replenishing the wind
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/06/replenishing-the-wind/
- Source:
_posts/2021-06-29-replenishing-the-wind.md - Size: 1,175 words, 7 image(s)
- Subject: wind power potential and surface heat fluxes
- Cites:
- https://www.pnas.org/content/114/43/11338
- https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/4993/2020/
- https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2103875118
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261920314835
- https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/43/11338/F16.large.jpg
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91283-3
- https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.J053430
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261918311073
Climate change as an incentive to future human migration
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2020/10/climate-change-as-an-incentive-to-future-human-migration-2/
- Source:
_posts/2020-10-22-climate-change-as-an-incentive-to-future-human-migration-2.md - Size: 1,340 words, 5 image(s)
- Subject: Earth System Dynamics (Copernicus); migration
- Cites:
Who is controlling who? The curious case of the algae and the sea anemone
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2019/11/who-is-controlling-who-the-curious-case-of-the-algae-and-the-sea-anemone/
- Source:
_posts/2019-11-13-who-is-controlling-who-the-curious-case-of-the-algae-and-the-sea-anemone.md - Size: 515 words, 3 image(s)
- Subject: Coral Reefs, doi 10.1007/s00338-019-01866-w
- Cites:
Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/03/geophysical-constraints-on-the-reliability-of-solar-and-wind-power-in-the-united-states/
- Source:
_posts/2018-03-01-geophysical-constraints-on-the-reliability-of-solar-and-wind-power-in-the-united-states.md - Size: 1,417 words
- Subject: Energy & Env. Science; wind/solar reliability
- Cites:
Ocean heat flux and open ocean wind energy
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/10/ocean-heat-flux-and-open-ocean-wind-energy/
- Source:
_posts/2017-10-14-ocean-heat-flux-and-open-ocean-wind-energy.md - Size: 860 words
- Subject: Possner & Caldeira, PNAS; open-ocean wind
- Cites:
Learning curves and clean-energy R&D: Follow the curve or try to leap?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/05/learning-curves-and-clean-energy-rd-incremental-advances-or-aim-for-breakthroughs/
- Source:
_posts/2017-05-24-learning-curves-and-clean-energy-rd-incremental-advances-or-aim-for-breakthroughs.md - Size: 1,081 words
- Subject: Energy Policy; learning curves vs breakthroughs
- Cites:
Will using a carbon tax for revenue generation create an incentive to continue CO2 emissions?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/05/will-using-a-carbon-tax-for-revenue-generate-create-an-incentive-to-continue-co2-emissions/
- Source:
_posts/2017-05-23-will-using-a-carbon-tax-for-revenue-generate-create-an-incentive-to-continue-co2-emissions.md - Size: 935 words
- Subject: IOP/ERL; carbon tax revenue incentives
- Cites:
Where do the winds come from?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/03/where-do-the-winds-come-from/
- Source:
_posts/2017-03-05-where-do-the-winds-come-from.md - Size: 162 words
- Subject: short explainer on an AMS journal paper
- Cites:
Reversal of radiocarbon flux into the ocean
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/07/reversal-of-radiocarbon-flux-into-the-ocean/
- Source:
_posts/2015-07-28-reversal-of-radiocarbon-flux-into-the-ocean.md - Size: 689 words
- Subject: PNAS; radiocarbon flux reversal
- Cites:
Substantive science, not tied to one paper (17)
Explainers, analyses, technical critiques and lectures. Real scientific content, but without a single paper to attach it to – these would need a home on CIunit such as a notes or commentary section.
Thought, action and social-system models
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/12/thought-action-and-social-system-models-2/
- Source:
_posts/2021-12-15-thought-action-and-social-system-models-2.md - Size: 360 words, 5 image(s)
- Subject: conceptual modelling of social systems
- Cites:
Consumption value and asset value
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/11/consumption-value-and-asset-value/
- Source:
_posts/2021-11-18-consumption-value-and-asset-value.md - Size: 1,282 words, 7 image(s)
- Subject: conceptual economics
Income inequality and climate damage: Relative impact on utility
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/08/income-inequality-and-climate-damage-relative-impact-on-utility/
- Source:
_posts/2021-08-05-income-inequality-and-climate-damage-relative-impact-on-utility.md - Size: 776 words, 7 image(s)
- Subject: inequality and climate damage, utility analysis
Addressing market failures in energy technology deployment and discovery
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/07/addressing-market-failures-in-climate-technology-deployment-and-discovery/
- Source:
_posts/2021-07-19-addressing-market-failures-in-climate-technology-deployment-and-discovery.md - Size: 1,052 words, 6 image(s)
- Subject: economics of technology deployment vs discovery
High Energy Planet: Interview transcript
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/06/high-energy-planet-interview-transcript/
- Source:
_posts/2021-06-14-high-energy-planet-interview-transcript.md - Size: 4,031 words, 6 image(s)
- Subject: podcast transcript, substantive energy content
Ocean acidification: A career journey from curiosity-driven science to a search for solutions
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/02/ocean-acidification-a-career-journey-from-curiosity-driven-science-to-a-search-for-solutions/
- Source:
_posts/2021-02-27-ocean-acidification-a-career-journey-from-curiosity-driven-science-to-a-search-for-solutions.md - Size: 865 words, 4 image(s)
- Subject: career retrospective citing many of his own papers
- Cites:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/337732a0
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/93PA01163
- https://www.nature.com/articles/425365a
- https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fnature25968/MediaObjects/41586_2018_Article_BFnature25968_Fig1_HTML.jpg
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25968
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012JG001974
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17155
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25968?sf185021036=1
- https://www.nature.com/news/landmark-experiment-confirms-ocean-acidification-s-toll-on-great-barrier-reef-1.19410
- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/eaas9793
- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/360/6396/eaas9793/F2.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1
Climate and energy discussion on ‘Straight Talk with Hank Paulson’
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2020/11/climate-and-energy-discussion-on-straight-talk-with-hank-paulson/
- Source:
_posts/2020-11-25-climate-and-energy-discussion-on-straight-talk-with-hank-paulson.md - Size: 5,341 words, 13 image(s), 1 video embed(s)
- Subject: podcast transcript, climate and energy
Carl Sagan Lecture by Ken Caldeira at the 2018 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2019/02/carl-sagan-lecture-by-ken-caldeira-at-the-2018-fall-american-geophysical-union-meeting/
- Source:
_posts/2019-02-10-carl-sagan-lecture-by-ken-caldeira-at-the-2018-fall-american-geophysical-union-meeting.md - Size: 7,660 words, 36 image(s), 1 video embed(s)
- Subject: AGU Sagan Lecture, 36 figures, 7,700 words
How much ice is melted by each carbon dioxide emission?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-much-ice-is-melted-by-each-carbon-dioxide-emission/
- Source:
_posts/2018-03-24-how-much-ice-is-melted-by-each-carbon-dioxide-emission.md - Size: 1,135 words
- Subject: per-emission ice loss
- Cites:
MZJ hydro explainer
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/02/mzj-hydro-explainer/
- Source:
_posts/2018-02-28-mzj-hydro-explainer.md - Size: 4,066 words
- Subject: long technical critique of hydro capacity claims (4,000 words)
- Cites:
Larsen C and solar geoengineering
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/07/larsen-c/
- Source:
_posts/2017-07-14-larsen-c.md - Size: 344 words
- Subject: ice shelf calving and solar geoengineering
Climate of risk and uncertainty
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/04/climate-of-risk-and-uncertainty/
- Source:
_posts/2017-04-29-climate-of-risk-and-uncertainty.md - Size: 613 words, 1 image(s)
- Subject: risk and uncertainty in climate
- Cites:
Helping the oceans help us
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/06/helping-the-oceans-to-help-us/
- Source:
_posts/2016-06-03-helping-the-oceans-to-help-us.md - Size: 593 words
- Subject: ocean health
The Arctic is becoming warmer, and the ocean is becoming more acidic
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/08/the-arctic-is-becoming-warmer-and-the-ocean-is-becoming-more-acidic/
- Source:
_posts/2015-08-28-the-arctic-is-becoming-warmer-and-the-ocean-is-becoming-more-acidic.md - Size: 437 words
- Subject: Arctic warming and acidification
From an email to a friend, skeptical about the reality of human-induced climate change
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/08/from-an-email-to-a-friend-skeptical-about-the-reality-of-human-induced-climate-change/
- Source:
_posts/2015-08-21-from-an-email-to-a-friend-skeptical-about-the-reality-of-human-induced-climate-change.md - Size: 515 words
- Subject: climate-change basics explainer
Fast, cheap and easy … and very dangerous
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/02/fast-cheap-and-easy-and-very-dangerous/
- Source:
_posts/2015-02-16-fast-cheap-and-easy-and-very-dangerous.md - Size: 1,101 words
- Subject: solar geoengineering risks
Email to David Perlman for ‘Megadroughts’ story
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/02/13-2/
- Source:
_posts/2015-02-15-13-2.md - Size: 708 words
- Subject: expert comment to SF Chronicle on Cook et al. megadrought paper
- Cites:
How research works (22)
Publishing, peer review, reproducibility, choosing problems, science communication, policy comment. Could plausibly live on either site; worth deciding as a group rather than one by one.
A ban on solar-geoengineering research?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2022/01/a-ban-on-solar-geoengineering-research/
- Source:
_posts/2022-01-21-a-ban-on-solar-geoengineering-research.md - Size: 661 words, 5 image(s)
- Subject: on proposals to ban geoengineering research
- Cites:
On prescriptive and normative statements in academic research papers
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2021/09/on-prescriptive-and-normative-statements-in-academic-research-papers/
- Source:
_posts/2021-09-25-on-prescriptive-and-normative-statements-in-academic-research-papers.md - Size: 418 words, 3 image(s)
- Subject: normative claims in papers
Comments on allocating resources to fusion-energy research and development
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2019/11/comments-on-allocating-resources-to-fusion-energy-research-and-development/
- Source:
_posts/2019-11-22-comments-on-allocating-resources-to-fusion-energy-research-and-development.md - Size: 390 words, 2 image(s)
- Subject: fusion R&D funding comment
On learning to see the glass as half full
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2019/09/on-learning-to-see-the-glass-as-half-full/
- Source:
_posts/2019-09-10-on-learning-to-see-the-glass-as-half-full.md - Size: 798 words, 3 image(s)
- Subject: reviewing and appreciation
A proposal for recommending and ranking scientific literature
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2019/01/a-modest-proposal-for-recommended-reading-ranking-for-scientific-literature/
- Source:
_posts/2019-01-12-a-modest-proposal-for-recommended-reading-ranking-for-scientific-literature.md - Size: 737 words, 2 image(s)
- Subject: proposal for ranking literature
On choosing problems to work on
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/07/on-choosing-problems-to-work-on/
- Source:
_posts/2018-07-21-on-choosing-problems-to-work-on.md - Size: 568 words
- Subject: choosing research problems
What do you do when a poorly expressed idea is quoted out of context by people with a political agenda?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/06/what-do-you-do-when-a-poorly-expressed-idea-is-quoted-out-of-context-by-people-with-a-political-agenda/
- Source:
_posts/2018-06-09-what-do-you-do-when-a-poorly-expressed-idea-is-quoted-out-of-context-by-people-with-a-political-agenda.md - Size: 1,466 words
- Subject: the Joule quote-out-of-context episode
- Cites:
Steps to writing a scientific paper based on model results
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2018/05/steps-to-writing-a-scientific-paper-based-on-model-results/
- Source:
_posts/2018-05-30-steps-to-writing-a-scientific-paper-based-on-model-results.md - Size: 961 words
- Subject: how to write a modelling paper
Red team, blue team
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/07/red-team-blue-team/
- Source:
_posts/2017-07-01-red-team-blue-team.md - Size: 551 words
- Subject: on the red-team/blue-team proposal for climate science
Scientific reproducibility, communication of uncertainty, and the US House of Representatives
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/04/scientific-reproducibility-communication-of-uncertainty-and-the-us-house-of-representatives/
- Source:
_posts/2017-04-07-scientific-reproducibility-communication-of-uncertainty-and-the-us-house-of-representatives.md - Size: 477 words
- Subject: reproducibility and uncertainty
2016 is Earth’s hottest year on record: A glimpse behind the Washington Post story
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2017/01/2016-is-earths-hottest-year-on-record-a-behind-the-washington-post-story/
- Source:
_posts/2017-01-18-2016-is-earths-hottest-year-on-record-a-behind-the-washington-post-story.md - Size: 712 words
- Subject: science communication with press
Seeking money, asking to help
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/11/seeking-money-asking-to-help/
- Source:
_posts/2016-11-08-seeking-money-asking-to-help.md - Size: 195 words
- Subject: grant writing framing
What inspired you to get into the field of geoengineering?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/11/what-inspired-you-to-get-into-the-field-of-geoengineering/
- Source:
_posts/2016-11-05-what-inspired-you-to-get-into-the-field-of-geoengineering.md - Size: 672 words
- Subject: field history, links early papers
- Cites:
A comment on the proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/10/comments-on-closing-indian-point-nuclear-power-plant/
- Source:
_posts/2016-10-28-comments-on-closing-indian-point-nuclear-power-plant.md - Size: 551 words
- Subject: policy comment
Managing Earth’s future: Self-restraint for the common good?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/07/managing-earths-future-self-restraint-for-the-common-good-or-domination-by-incentive-and-power/
- Source:
_posts/2016-07-29-managing-earths-future-self-restraint-for-the-common-good-or-domination-by-incentive-and-power.md - Size: 492 words
- Subject: framing essay
Writing an OpEd piece on ocean acidification for the Sydney Morning Herald
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2016/05/writing-an-oped-piece-on-ocean-acidification-for-the-sydney-morning-herald/
- Source:
_posts/2016-05-04-writing-an-oped-piece-on-ocean-acidification-for-the-sydney-morning-herald.md - Size: 1,107 words
- Subject: how an op-ed got written
Statement at COP21, December 4, 2015
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/12/statement-at-cop21-4-december-2015/
- Source:
_posts/2015-12-28-statement-at-cop21-4-december-2015.md - Size: 403 words
- Subject: policy statement
Play and hypothesis testing: From a note to my research group
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/07/play-and-hypothesis-testing-from-a-note-to-my-research-group/
- Source:
_posts/2015-07-29-play-and-hypothesis-testing-from-a-note-to-my-research-group.md - Size: 177 words
- Subject: research method, note to group
Do open discussion journals provide a service to the scientific community?
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/07/do-open-discussion-journals-provide-a-service-to-the-scientific-community/
- Source:
_posts/2015-07-24-do-open-discussion-journals-provide-a-service-to-the-scientific-community.md - Size: 381 words
- Subject: peer review and open-discussion journals
Advice for college undergraduates …
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/02/advice-for-college-undergraduates/
- Source:
_posts/2015-02-26-advice-for-college-undergraduates.md - Size: 348 words
- Subject: career advice
Conspiracy trails …
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/02/conspiracy-trails/
- Source:
_posts/2015-02-21-conspiracy-trails.md - Size: 1,295 words
- Subject: responding to chemtrail conspiracy claims
On Alan Robock’s comments regarding the CIA and climate intervention
- Live: https://kencaldeira.com/2015/02/on-alan-robocks-comments-regarding-the-cia-and-climate-intervention/
- Source:
_posts/2015-02-15-on-alan-robocks-comments-regarding-the-cia-and-climate-intervention.md - Size: 378 words
- Subject: geoengineering research controversy
Stays on the blog (20)
Personal, cultural, political or humorous writing. Listed for completeness so nothing is unaccounted for.
When a post moves
- Recreate it on CIunit, bringing its images across from
assets/images/. - Delete the Markdown file from
_posts/and run.venv/bin/python tools/images.py pruneto drop assets no longer referenced. - Leave a redirect. Every post URL has been live since as early as 2015 and is indexed; deleting one without a redirect breaks inbound links. GitHub Pages supports this via the
jekyll-redirect-fromplugin (on GitHub’s allowlist), or by leaving a stub page that points at the CIunit location. - Re-run
.venv/bin/python tools/verify.py— it checks every original WordPress URL still resolves, and will flag any that stopped.