by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week:
NOAA’s Overland argues Alaska’s heat wave is not evidence of climate change, but part of longterm weather pattern [link]
The Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax Has Something for Everyone | National Review Online – [link]
It’s not the economy, stupid — it’s you. Americans rank politicians as the most important problem of 2014 [link]
How to be smarter: pay attention & embrace your mistakes. [link]
No more mad scientists. They’re Hollywood heroes now [link] …
Scientists track natural responses to climate change [link] …
Congratulations to Tim Palmer, Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford. CBE in New Year’s Honours, for services to Science.
Scientists seek demigod status; journals want blockbuster results; retractions on rise. Is science broken? [link]
Mark Steyn: The limitations of lawyers [link]
New study: tropical forests are using far more CO2 and so growing far faster than previously believed. [link]
Long term oscillations in rainfall extremes in a 268 year daily time series [link]
Was the push to minimize saturated fats in diets a terrible idea based on flawed science? That’s the argument here: [link]
Corruption is a major destroyer of economies & societies and political fabric [link]
Biggest cloud seeding experiment yet only sparks more debate [link]
How much does it cost to reduce carbon emissions? [link] …
Why haters hate – Kierkegaard explains the psychology of bullying and online trolling in 1847 [link]
Reason: Why there will not be a climate treaty in 2015 [link]
NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows potential tectonically-induced CO2 input from the ocean? [link]Filed under: Week in review