by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Policy/Politics
The big story this week is that Rachendra Pachauri has resigned from the IPCC, over a sexual harassment scandal [link]. I will have an in depth post IPCC in Transition sometime next week.
Obama Administration Declares Green War on India [link] …
Climate adaptation careers are heating up. Insider tips on the skills needed: [link]
Energy
Clean Power Plan vs. Reliability: A False Dilemma for States: [link]
Why the power grid of the future is in California and New York [link]
Science
Uncertainty behind climate projections could be cut in half by 2030, study shows [link]
Zeke has a post at Skeptical Science: Understanding adjustments to temperature data [link]
Carbon sequestration: Biology’s growing role [link]
More & more research results clearly indicate that solar activity has an impact on how the climate varies over time [link]
Multiple Changepoint Detection Using Metadata [link]
“Australian BOM under fire – questions about “adjusted” temperatures exploding around the world” [link]
Climate science history: The Original Climate Skeptics [link]
Climate history: Basic science and politics under Thatcher [link]
Rewriting the climate history of Iceland [link]
Global warming will NOT lead to an overall stormier atmosphere. [link]
Christopher Essex on fluid dynamics, climate models and media climate activism [link]
How to interpret expert judgment assessments of 21st century sea-level rise [link]
Over 200 peer-reviewed papers demonstrating solar control of climate published since 2010 [link]
Media reports that GMO science is settled are flat out wrong [link]
The war on genetically-modified food critics [link]
Climate Wars
I am very thankful to all the support that I have received this week, from the Denizens, people on twitter, and email from colleagues.
A very good letter from the American Meteorological Society on Grijalva’s witch hunt [link]
AGU response implicitly supports Grijalva (D-Ariz.) [link] A failure of leadership by Margaret Leinen – President, AGU
Senate EPW Republicans take a stand for academic freedom [link]
Nordhaus & Shellenberger: Climate of incivility [link]
Good post from Victor Venema: Stop all harassment of all scientists now [link]
What is the difference between Willie Soon and Joe Romm?
A comment on selective COI outrage. [link]
On Funding and Bias in Climate [link]
The problem with consensus – some thoughts on how focusing on agreement leads to more polarization on #climatechange [link]
William Connolley (Stoat) has a good post on Grijalvi inquisition [link]
A defense of Willie Soon [link]
How to balance transparency with academic freedom? [link]
German Analysis: “97 Percent Consensus” Does Not Exist … Demands To End Debate Are “Way Off Sides” [link]
Coming next week
Assuming that nothing currently unforeseen happens, I have the following posts planned for the coming week:
- Critique of Monckton, Soon et al. paper
- IPCC in transition
- 2 new papers on the hiatus
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