by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
In the news
Why the US desperately needs weather satellite data from China & Russia but Congress says no: [link]
The story of the young researcher who uncovered the fraudulent gay marriage study [link]
Retracted Scientific Studies: A Growing List [link]
A novel way to reduce your personal biases while you sleep [link]
Schoolroom Climate Change Indoctrination [link]
Dr Richard Tol: “Climate change: Mr. Obama, 97 percent of experts is a bogus number” [link] …
McKitrick’s take on the elusive 97% consensus: [link] …. Cook’s reply: [link] … & McKitrick’s rebuttal [link] ….
Extreme Weather
TX’s state climatologist links flooding to climate change; frequency of ‘heavy 2-day rains’ has doubled [link]
Texas has had dozens of rainfalls over the past 200 years as large or larger than recent ones. [link]
NASA: El Niño driven ‘stagnant upper-air pattern’ made heavy rains in central Texas; no mention of ‘climate change’ [link]
Climate change blamed as thousands die in Indian heat [link]
Lack of electricity, blackouts from excessive demand from air conditioners leading to India heat fatalities [link]
This Indian city developed a heat action plan to protect vulnerable citizens from heat waves [link]
Obama: Climate Change Having ’Significant Effect’ On Making Hurricanes Stronger [link]
Obama : ‘Best climate scientists’ link hurricanes, climate change [link]
“Scientists Don’t Actually Know What’s Causing ‘Extreme Weather’ [link]
Ryan Maue tweets: Academics are trotting out “weather on steroids” argument of climate change. But in many cases it’s more aptly “weather on laxatives”, given the explanations which are like the result of laxatives
New papers
New paper in Nature predicts climate may cool .5C for “a number of decades” due to natural ocean oscillations [link]
New paper finds natural variability of Pacific Ocean oscillation plays “crucial role” modulating ENSO & Asian Monsoon [link]
Ocean impact on decadal Atlantic variability revealed by sea level variations [link]
Global climate on verge of multidecadal change [link]
New assessment of the Northern Hemisphere surface temperature data [link]
Communicating Uncertainties in Sea Surface Temperature [link]
Are we unnecessarily constraining the agility of complex process-based models? [link]
Filed under: Week in review