by Judith Curry
A fe thing that caught my eye this past week.
Elevated CO2 maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme [link]
New paper: Hurricane intensity predictability [link]
NAS report on GMOs [link]
The literature of climate change [link]
India records hottest day ever as temps hit 51C (that’s a whopping 124F) [link]
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier may melt in a few hundred years (or not) [link]
Will more snow over Antarctica offset rising seas? [link]
Another geoengineering scheme plans to use planes and ships to cool the planet [link] …
Dan Kahan: Serious problems with ‘the strongest evidence to date’ on consensus messaging [link]
Oliver Geden: Towards a viable climate target [link]
The strange science of why airport security lines spiral out of control [link]
We’ve got 5 years left until our carbon budget for staying under 1.5C of warming is blown [link]
John Nielsen-Gammon explains what caused the record rains in Texas [link]
Two-step rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere may be linked to plate tectonics [link]
There’s no such thing as free will. But we’re better off believing in it anyway. [link]
Advances in #meteorology and #weatherforecasting help make smart choices for #water reservoirs [link]
How can gaming help test your theory? [link]
The fading meaning of ‘GMO’ [link]
Undersea waves may melt Arctic sea ice [link]
Another gem from brainpickings: Information versus wisdom [link]
Toxic funding? Conflicts of Interest and Their Epistemological Significance [link]
Improving spring melt runoff forecasts via snow information [link]
Longer growing seasons shift grasslands vegetation towards more productive species [link]
Unsettled science: Geology is breaking apart over when the Americas came together [link]
Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics [link]
A skeptical take on ‘Skepticism’ [link]
Are older academics past their productive peak? (!) [link]
What does the Pacific Artic’s new normal mean for marine life? [link]
Filed under: Week in review