Week in review

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

Climate Politics
Carbon Brief: What’s the deal with this U.N. Climate Summit? http://bit.ly/1rdWsZI
Carbon Brief: US hints at vision for a new global climate deal [link]
Economist:  Guide to actions that have done the most to slow global warming [link]
Why Al Gore is hopeful about global warming [link]
Essential reading from @jeffgoodell ahead of the UN climate summit: “China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet” http://rol.st/1r2Koc5
You can watch House Science hearing w/WH adviser John Holdren & EPA’s McCabe testifying on Obama’s climate rule here: [link]
Obama Delays Climate Change Plan, Casting Shadow Over UN Climate Summit [link]
Rupert Darwall: The UN’s Climate Summit Charade [link]
Dems tie climate skeptics to tobacco, lead backers [link]
Bobby Jindahl’s soft climate change skepticism [link]
Ross McKitrick: Climate change and the false case for haste  [link]
Pakistan Flood 2014- Lesson Identified Never Learned [link]
New publications
Ten strategies to systematically exploit all options to cope with anthropogenic climate change [link]
Roger Pielke Jr: Have you heard that climate change means that wetter areas get wetter and drier areas more dry? Well, it is wrong–> [link]
The curious case of Indian Ocean warming http://buff.ly/ZmcypA
Is there a ‘heat-or-eat’ trade-off in the UK? Yes [link]
Climate science wars
Hugely important WSJ editorial from Steve Koonins (chair of APS committee to examine their public policy statement). [link]
Richard Lindzen’s first essay for CATO [link]
Mark Steyn: The Lonesomest Mann in Town [link]
Mark Steyn: The Barbra Streisand effect on steroids – #AskDrMann [link]
Sou from Boudanga: Fool Judith Curry denier off the scale: CO2 no influence on centennial times scales [link]
JC’s calendar
Here is an update on my travel schedule:
Sept 22/23:  Washington DC: Environmental Law Institute Workshop on The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding How Scientists, Environmental Lawyers, and Journalists Treat Uncertainty
Sept 25/26: Houston TX: Texas Public Policy Foundation Conference: At the Crossroads: Energy and Climate Policy Summit
Oct 1:  Oberlin University: Debate with Pat Michaels
Oct 6-17:  Nanjing, China
Oct 23-26:  London, Ontario: Rotman Institute of Philosophy Conference on Knowledge and Models in Climate Science
November 10:  Ohio University Lecture: State of the Climate Debate
November 13:  Tampa FL  Lecture to Georgia Tech Alumni Association
Cartoon of the week
And finally, for cartoon of the week, Megan Darby tweets: This polar bear, meanwhile, is doing sit-ups for the climate [link]
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