by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Siberian craters aside, @nature paper finds permafrost CH4 flow likely to stay steady. [link]
Warm blog in ocean linked to weird weather across US [link]
The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct [link]
Fracking’s earthquake problem and how to tackle it [link]
Critical appraisal of assumptions in chains of model calculations to project local climate impacts [link] …
New paper finds climate models fail to accurately predict clouds over the ocean “critical for climate projections” [link] …
Ocean ‘dead zones’ are spreading – and that spells disaster for fish [link] …
New paper: Tree-rings “overestimate…early-19th century summer cooling by ~1.5 °C” Thus,20th C warming overestimated [link] …
New paper: “In summer, these [climate] models exhibit a substantial warm bias with particularly high daytime temps” [link] …
Anesthetics may be knocking out Earth’s climate in addition to hospital patients [link]
Climate: The Unsettled Science http://ift.tt/1HMNRTj
“200 Years Ago This Week: Tambora’s Eruption Causes a Planetary Climate Emergency” [link]
Climate blogs
Nic Lewis at ClimateAudit: 1st of a 3 part series on his climate sensitivity talk at Ringberg [link]
Isaac Held: Addicted to global mean temperature [link]
Victor Venema: Series on not-much-talked-about reasons why raw temp data may underestimate global warming.[link]
.@wmconnolley writes about the new microwave satellite estimates of the temp trend of the tropical hotspot. [link]
The Resilient Earth: Climate: The unsettled science [link]
Sociology of science
Experts are better at controlling their political biases than ordinary people, @cult_cognition finds [link]
I read this post about turning down interviews on research thinking I’d disagree, I didn’t. [link]
Reading science stories skeptically[link]
The Sun goes dark: @SouthernCompany won’t pay Willie Soon for any more ‘deliverables’,[link]
Nature: #Climate science is not attracting top shelf scientific talent—after all, who wants to work on “settled science?” [link] …
Science has suffered a downturn in credibility in recent years. Now, a bunch of economists are coming to its rescue [link]
@DrKateMarvel’s brilliant blog post on scientific publishing. Check it out: [link]
How certain is ‘certain’? … the use of calibrated language in the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report [link]
Communicating controversial science in context.[link]Filed under: Week in review