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An atmospheric scientist, I have worked on problems in climate dynamics, climate monitoring strategy, paleoclimate modeling, and wind power meteorology. I got my PhD. in Meteorology from MIT in 1998, then postdoc'd in Jim Anderson's group at Harvard, before moving to a teaching position at U. Maryland, and now to a Chief Scientist post at a private weather forecasting company.

Recent Comments by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

• "Here's a recent lifecycle assessment of onshore and offshore wind turbines, "
  Realizing the Promise of Offshore Wind
• "The north sea has plenty of vigorous winter storms, and the number of really powerful hurricanes that pass over the coastal waters of the mid-Atlantic"
  U.S. Offshore Wind Will Be Bigger Than You Think
• "I'm having a little trouble understanding how you derived your summary paragraph from the paper to which you link.  It shows, in figure 3, that RPS st"
  The Ineffectiveness of Renewable Portfolio Standards
• "For the record, Wind and solar combined generated 6.8% of US electricity in 2014. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=e"
  Can We Find a Future for Coal?
• "A fair reply, thank you. Though it does seem to me that many governments are accepting serious resource costs for carbon reductions- what else is Ge"
  Protecting Our Climate and the Middle Class
• "Lee, just for the sake of a better conversation, would you please say what you would propose to do, if you believed that ever-increasing levels of CO2"
  Protecting Our Climate and the Middle Class
• "Dan Miller- can you be a little more clear about the difference between your preferred policy and what Congressman Van Hollen is suggesting? Note tha"
  Protecting Our Climate and the Middle Class
• "Today's announcement by the EPA is a modest first step towards real action to move towards a carbon-neutral electrical grid.   Coal-fired power plants"
  Obama’s EPA to Cost Americans Billions of Dollars and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs
• "I'm new here, but is it acceptable practice here to make claims based on personal experience without citation to any literature? How can any reader h"
  Natural Gas and Hydrofracking