by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Politics and policy
Majority of Senate just voted US-China climate deal “economically unfair and environmentally irresponsible.” [link]
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu weighs in on the future of energy [link]
Conversation: “foster pragmatic climate policies that do NOT hinge on scientific truth” [link]
Science is actually just making the climate debate worse, researcher says [link]
Scientific American: Obama strikes first in war of words with Congress over global warming [link]
Inside Obama’s effort to use science — and find policies that actually work [link]
Briefing: India’s energy and climate change challenge [link]
“Energy subsidies are a catastrophic policy,” Economics Nobel laureate [link]
Science
Science by democracy doesn’t work [link]
IPCC’s van Ypersele under fire for trying to stifle the scientific debate on climate change [link]
ECMWF released their reanalysis data … global temps: 2014 is not the warmest year [link]
Is there a creativity deficit in science? [link]
How the Met Office successfully forecasts temperatures a year ahead of time – http://j.mp/1yHFxmh
The recent global-warming hiatus: What is the role of Pacific variability? [link]
Faulty thermometers exaggerated western U.S. mountain warming | Science News [link]
Blog land and the climate wars
Matt Ridley: A lukewarmer against dogmatism [link]
Tom Fuller: Climate blogger and blog award of the year [link]
State Department Official Wants Disney’s ‘Frozen’ to Teach Kids About Climate Change – [link]
Disney thought a State Department pitch to use “Frozen” to teach climate change was too sad [link]
And now into the sewer:
ATTP’s identity is ‘outed’ by pop tech [link]
Sou: Freed of any values, Judith Curry slithers and slides and hurtles into deniersville [link]
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