by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Looks like an important paper: How increasing CO2 leads to a negative greenhouse effect in Antarctica [link]
How bad of a greenhouse gas is methane? [link]
Antarctica: ice melt drives unusual phytoplankton growth [link]
Upper-ocean mixing due to surface gravity waves [link]
JC op-ed in the Financial Post: Unnatural consensus on climate change [link] …
Harnessing the ocean’s energy: Wave of the future for renewables? [link]
Big Data, Big Computers, Big Trouble [link]
Fabius Maximus: Daniel Davies insights’ about forecasts can unlock the #climatechange debate [link]
A rather entertaining piece on the ‘warfare’ between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Steven Pinker over thin versus fat tails [link]
Taleb: Paper debunking Pinker boy accepted in PHYSICA A: Stat Mech [link] …
What makes an academic paper useful for health policy? [link]
Glyphosate (RoundUp) & Cancer: what do the data say? [link] …
It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs” [link]
Fine piece by Matt Ridley on the great 18th century landscaper Capability Brown [link]
The problem with science journalism: we’ve forgotten that reality matters most [link] …
Data Mining Reveals the Extent of China’s Ghost Cities [link]
Campus free speech issues
Report: Restrictions on free speech at American universities ‘is a national scandal’ [link]
An interview with a real free speech champ-the student founder of @BrownUniversity’s underground free speech group: [link] …
On guilt, the Academy, & punitive liberalism. The absurdities of today’s student revolutionaries. [link]
Purdue’s STEM graduates in touch with need for free speech — here’s why [link]
Camille Paglia: “We need more dissent and less dogma.” [link] …
Filed under: Week in review