Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Deep and Abyssal Ocean Warming from 35 years of Repeat Hydrography [link]
California’s drought could continue for centuries [link]
Sea-level rise to radically affect military strategy, study says [link] …
Ah – wicked problems! Largest-ever study reveals environmental impact of genetically modified crops [link]
(Just about) everything you ever need to know about the economics of carbon pricing: [link]
“Large reductions in aerosol precursor emissions have only modest impacts on regional gross primary production.” [link]
#IPCC scenarios rely on carbon removal via #BECCS & forestry. But in real-world, reforestation doesn’t look too good [link] …
A Hiatus of the Greenhouse Effect: [link]
A tenth of the world’s wilderness has disappeared since the early 1990s, scientists say [link]
This Robot Could Make Exploring Oceans Deeper, Faster, and Cheaper [link]
Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests #regimeshifts [link]
Todays weather is hardly unique: [link]
Cliff Mass:  The blob is back [link]
New paper finds reasons why “winter surface phytoplankton bloomed in the north” of South China Sea.[link] …
“By mid-century, more Antarctic snowfall may help offset sea-level rise” [link] …
Mapping fishing activities, the immediate threat to marine species [link]
Rising Temps: Wheat, one of world’s most important food crops, threatened by climate change http://wpo.st/d8tx1
Wheat “stockpiles ballooning to record” [link] …
About science
The intellectual yet idiot [link]
How Climate Alarm Becomes a Self-promulgating Collective Belief [link]
Different viewpoints on #openaccess: read the report of our debate: [link] .
In the UK: Academic Freedom Dying Because Profs Too Scared to Use It: Report [link]
Correlation, causation and confusion [link]
Uncommon Genius – Stephen Jay Gould, who would’ve been 75 today, on why dot-connecting is the key to creativity [link]
Stanford Business: Having a contrarian on your team can lead to more creative and better decisions [link]
“Publication bias and the canonization of false facts” [link]…
Drafter of U.S. Dietary Goals Was Bribed by Big Sugar to Demonize Fat [link]
Coping with uncertainty: cost benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and climate change [link]Filed under: Week in review

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