by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
It’s Official: Hydropower Is Dirty Energy [link]
A large ensemble of model runs produced 30 alternate realities for N. American temp trends from 1963-2012 [link]
Modern ecosystems owe their existence to a previously undocumented period of global cooling [link]
Biologist comments on a startling new finding in climate change researc: study measures methane release [link]
“Changes in solar quiet magnetic variations since the Maunder Minimum: a comparison of historical observations…” [link]
“Peat bogs in northern Alberta, Canada, reveal decades of declining atmospheric Pb contamination.” [link]
With solar storm in progress, regional impact forecasts set to begin [link]
The Pacific ‘blob’ caused an ‘unprecedented’ toxic algal bloom – and there’s more to come [link]
“Satellite based estimates underestimate the effect of CO2 fertilization on net primary productivity” [link]
New paper on sustained rise in methane, but from tropics/ag, not oil/gas or Arctic. [link] …
#oceanacidification : seafloor plankton communities decline [link]
Role of heat transport in global climate response to projected Arctic sea ice loss [link]
Impact of Climate Change & Aquatic Salinization on Mangrove Species & Poor Communities in Sundarbans [link]
Global Warming Is Real—But 13 Degrees? Not So Fast [link]
A new paleoclimate record from the data-sparse southern hemisphere’s midlatitudes: [link]
Global water vapor trend 1979-2014 [link]
1st measurements of GHGs from permafrost under fast-warming Arctic lakes: [link]
About science and scientists
Science in crisis: from the sugar scam to Brexit, our faith in experts is fading [link] …
Janet Napolitano on campus free speech [link]
Unsettled science, and more wickedness [link] …
Maths research: the abstract nonsense behind tomorrow’s breakthroughs [link]
Incentive malus: why bad science persists. Poor scientific methods may be hereditary.[link]
The natural selection of bad science [link]
Academic Research: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition [link] … …
The power paradox – excellent read on the surprising and sobering science of how we gain and lose influence [link] …
Statistical vitriol: [link] …
What’s the point of tenure, if we’re terrified to ask certain questions? [link]
Can young researchers thrive in life outside of academia [link]
Full presentation from Andrea Saltelli: Climate numbers and climate wars. A fatal attraction? [link]
…Filed under: Week in review