Candidate posts to move to CIunit

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?

The value of reducing the Green Premium

Multi-decadal country-level regressions on GDP growth and temperature change

Hydrogen production from curtailed generation

Replenishing the wind

Climate change as an incentive to future human migration

Who is controlling who? The curious case of the algae and the sea anemone

Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States

Ocean heat flux and open ocean wind energy

Learning curves and clean-energy R&D: Follow the curve or try to leap?

Will using a carbon tax for revenue generation create an incentive to continue CO2 emissions?

Where do the winds come from?

Reversal of radiocarbon flux into the ocean


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

Consumption value and asset value

Income inequality and climate damage: Relative impact on utility

Addressing market failures in energy technology deployment and discovery

High Energy Planet: Interview transcript

Ocean acidification: A career journey from curiosity-driven science to a search for solutions

Climate and energy discussion on ‘Straight Talk with Hank Paulson’

Carl Sagan Lecture by Ken Caldeira at the 2018 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting

How much ice is melted by each carbon dioxide emission?

MZJ hydro explainer

Larsen C and solar geoengineering

Climate of risk and uncertainty

Helping the oceans help us

The Arctic is becoming warmer, and the ocean is becoming more acidic

From an email to a friend, skeptical about the reality of human-induced climate change

Fast, cheap and easy … and very dangerous

Email to David Perlman for ‘Megadroughts’ story


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?

On prescriptive and normative statements in academic research papers

Comments on allocating resources to fusion-energy research and development

On learning to see the glass as half full

A proposal for recommending and ranking scientific literature

On choosing problems to work on

What do you do when a poorly expressed idea is quoted out of context by people with a political agenda?

Steps to writing a scientific paper based on model results

Red team, blue team

Scientific reproducibility, communication of uncertainty, and the US House of Representatives

2016 is Earth’s hottest year on record: A glimpse behind the Washington Post story

Seeking money, asking to help

What inspired you to get into the field of geoengineering?

A comment on the proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant

Managing Earth’s future: Self-restraint for the common good?

Writing an OpEd piece on ocean acidification for the Sydney Morning Herald

Statement at COP21, December 4, 2015

Play and hypothesis testing: From a note to my research group

Do open discussion journals provide a service to the scientific community?

Advice for college undergraduates …

Conspiracy trails …

On Alan Robock’s comments regarding the CIA and climate intervention


Stays on the blog (20)

Personal, cultural, political or humorous writing. Listed for completeness so nothing is unaccounted for.

Date Post Words
2025-11-12 Voting analysis for the 19th Chopin Competition 3,200
2025-03-02 Ukraine – Fact sheet: How you can help 1,746
2021-10-30 Aphorisms and over-simplifications 1,496
2021-09-13 Enough responsibility to go around 516
2021-03-14 Podcasts aimed at professionals in other professions 437
2021-01-15 Wagner scores on YouTube 724
2019-06-06 Consumerism as addiction 454
2018-03-17 Looking for postdocs wanting to help facilitate a transition to a near-zero emission energy system 463
2017-10-05 Imagine it is year 2100 and the world is a good place to be. 399
2017-06-03 Trump, climate, and energy 870
2017-03-31 Dark ages: Do you know what to do? 520
2016-12-29 Time, books, and nice words from Mr. Gates 791
2016-12-12 Coffee and climate: A common problem 1,068
2016-12-11 Solving the coffee and climate problems 327
2016-11-30 Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline 217
2016-10-25 Bridging the urban-rural divide 720
2016-06-19 Ordinary miracles 757
2015-12-25 Am I capable of not rejecting nuclear power? 597
2015-05-06 What’s one initiative, project, or change in human behavior that’s crucial for fixing our planet? 534
2015-02-15 Getting nasty … 50

When a post moves

  1. Recreate it on CIunit, bringing its images across from assets/images/.
  2. Delete the Markdown file from _posts/ and run .venv/bin/python tools/images.py prune to drop assets no longer referenced.
  3. 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-from plugin (on GitHub’s allowlist), or by leaving a stub page that points at the CIunit location.
  4. Re-run .venv/bin/python tools/verify.py — it checks every original WordPress URL still resolves, and will flag any that stopped.