by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Latest IRI El Nino briefing – weak SSTs but no shift of rainfall into central Pacific [link]
Mark Lynas: India’s coal conundrum: which comes first, the climate or the poor? [link]
The enduring legacy of Obama’s worst-ever environmental decision: [link]
Michael Levi: The US-China climate deal won’t save the world. Who cares? My piece for the Washington Post: [link]
Nature: Its time air pollution got more attention at the international level [link]
Interesting article on Agriculture Renewable Energy blog: The Failure of Conservatives on Global Warming [link]
Responsible innovation and irresponsible stagnation [link]
The Quadrant: Partners in pointlessness. How U.S. and Australia can meet their CO2 emissions targets [link]
Why google stopped R&D in renewable energy [link]
10 million child deaths attributed to a lack of toilets http://bloom.bg/1yreSHe
Believe it or not but mining companies might be the Arctic’s best hope http://bit.ly/1xPUgJB
With #emissions still rising, @UNEP starts modifying 2°C gap concept, slowly shifting the benchmark from 2020 to 2030 [link]
Superb post by Matt Briggs on the bogus use of statistics on temperature series. Don’t use statistics unless you have to [link]
Keystone falls short in Senate, cable news battle continues http://ift.tt/1voxOZy
Meta analysis: Scientists Witness Plagiarism Often. [link]
Cass Sunstein: How groups fail. From my forthcoming book Wiser (with Reid Hastie). [link]
The Arctic Is Turning Into The World’s Newest Geo-Strategic Battleground [link]
‘Innovation: managing risk, not avoiding it': @uksciencechief‘s #GCSAreport14 is now online [link]
What it would really take to reverse anthropogenic climate change: today’s renewable technologies won’t save us [link]
NASA Shows How CO2 Circulates Around The World: http://youtu.be/sM8l7FhQqNg?a
Can we ‘solve’ #climatechange? India gorges on coal. The real world spirals on in its Tragedy of the Commons. [link]
Replication in science: issues and challenges – an interesting discussion – [link]
Nice short primer on how to compare the cost of renewable energy with the cost of traditional sources: [link]
The new science of group decision making [link]
Germany retreating from 2020 climate goal. http://spon.de/aem8x
Nate Silver on herding: tendency to produce results that closely match one another [link]
China’s incentive to limit fossil fuel use: air pollution [link]
Nigerian Echo: US-China deal perpetuates climate injustice [link]
Will GOP put climate science back on trial? [link]
Cogent analysis of Obama’s green cred – The greening of Barack Obama [link]
Filed under: Week in review