Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

The APS Statement on Climate Change is now officially posted [link], minor changes from the draft.  I will not be renewing my membership to the APS.
Tamsin Edwards has a new paper in @nature predicting Antarctic ice sheet instability [link] …
Climate Engineering Economics [link] …
This is a great exercise in simplifying difficult subjects. General relativity using only the 1,000 most-common words [link] …
New paper: Natural N Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) can modulate hemispheric temperatures by “several 10ths of degrees”  [link]
Self-Irrigating Desert Plant Discovered:[link]
Econtalk: Perhaps Preventing Prevention is Prudent [link]
New paper finds ~1,500 year solar forcing cycles control Greenland climate [link]
Richard Epstein:  Spineless leadership at Yale [link]
“How the Thames was brought back from the dead” [link]
Some evidence that US forests are becoming less effective carbon sinks over time: [link] …
In Conversation: Roger Harrabin and Richard Tol [link]  …
#PNAS paper links offshore plankton abundance to corals’ self-generated pH drop. [link] …
NOAA: U.S. Deaths Caused by Severe Weather Hit 22-Year Low in 2014 [link]
New research IDs ocean areas most vulnerable to ocean acidification [link]
Ice sheets in the northeast of Greenland have started to retreat [link]
Study: Increased deforestation could reduce Amazon basin rainfall [link] …
Why Are INDC Studies Reaching Different Temperature Estimates? [link]Filed under: Week in review

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