Week in review

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

Matt Nisbet pens a very interesting article: Fox News seeds climate doubts, but liberal media also distort, my latest column via @US_Conversation  [link]
Very good article from Steven Cohen: The #climate crisis requires a #technological fix, not symbolic, futile political talk. [link]
Disagreement over climate-conflict link heats up [link]
Will Yeates: The Symbolic Politics of Climate Diplomacy [link]
Should the climate movement turn down the radicalism? [link]
Enough with fat climate change reports already [link]
This is an excellent, empirical paper on energy tech “leapfrogging” [link]
How can we get power to the poor without frying the planet? [link]
Carbon-capture-storage  just keeps looking more and more expensive. [link]
Solar energy revolution in Bangladesh [link]
Solar power contagion [link]
Can we forecast where water conflicts are likely to occur? [link]
Another week, another good post from RealClimate (have I EVER said that before?)  Abigail Swann on How do trees change the climate?
Economist:  Historical death rates. Winter is the deadliest season, but a recent papers shows that summer used to be much worse [link]
Interesting analysis of how Professors spend their time [link]
Very good essay about mistakes we make when trying to make sense of scientific research [link]
How the theory of plate tectonics has been amended [link]
The Hummingbird Effect – how Galileo invented time and sparked the modern tyranny of the clock [link]
Isaac Asimov: How do people get new ideas? [link]
Weekend weather report:  I’m in South Carolina, 2 inches of snow on the ground with winds of about 50 mph

 
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