by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Science news
The Hubbard #Glacier defies ‘climate change’ – continues to grow [link]
Science fiction made real in Siberia. Long-frozen reindeer corpse thaws, anthrax kills 1500 reindeer. [link]
The National Weather Service Selects A New Global Weather Prediction Model: Will It Make the Right Choice? [link] …
The tropical Atlantic Ocean is toasty warm. So where are all the storms? [link]
Climate research
New paper finds there is “no consensus” on how much CO2 is taken up by the European terrestrial biosphere [link]
New study “reveals the *exact* timing of onset of modern monsoon pattern in Maldives 12.9 million years ago” [link]
New paper finds mean annual temperature of Xi’an China was 1.1C warmer than present ~6000 years ago [link]
“The role of El Niño in the global energy redistribution: a case study in the mid-Holocene” [link]
“Monsoon intensity enhanced by heat captured by desert dust” [link] …
New paper finds Impacts of Natural Climate Change on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization [link] …
New Paper Shows No Precipitation Trend On Iberian Peninsula Over Past 300 Years [link]
Natural variability dominates: Middle atmosphere in sync with ocean cycles via @physorg_com [link]
Volcanic Eruptions Stir an Already Complex Atmosphere [link]
The rogue nature of hiatuses in a global warming climate [link]
Tracking sea level rise [link]
Sociology of science
“Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” [link]
Scientists must remember not to shy away from failure. [link]
Climate Activism Disguised as Development Assistance [link]
Prof Charles Lipson shares his five steps to reverse the “death of campus free speech.” [link]
The uneven impacts of research impact: Adjustments needed to address the imbalance of the current impact framework. [link]
Why scientists should write blogs, not articles. [link]
Lets talk about the bad science being funded [link]
The Climate Anxiety Doctor Is “In” [link]
Policy
The United Nations: An Unconstrained Bureaucracy [link]
Letter to @NatureGeosci on “Climate change as a wicked social problem” by @ReinerGrundmann [link]
Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany [link]
5 ways to break the link between development & consumption [link]
Six Conflict Prevention Takeaways from New Climate and Conflict Research [link]
Who should pay for climate change? [link]
“resilience…is the answer to addressing the climate challenge” and that resilience relies on women’s leadership: [link]
There is certainly a lot of potential for 3D printing to reduce climate risks [link]
Evolution is a key motif for next era of tech. “No longer enough to disrupt, have to discover & build.” [link]
New research from Harvard re competitiveness & climate policy [link]
Filed under: Week in review