by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Politics/Policy
Al Gore in Davos–> “extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago” http://gu.com/p/3m6t3/stw
Is the Pentagon hyping climate change? [link] …
Pontifical Academy Of Sciences Pushing For Climate Treaty…Finds Fossil Fuels Akin To “Modern Slavery” http://bit.ly/1Hxps8c
Gina McCarthy, EPA: We must act now to protect our winters. Looks like she missed the memo that AGW causes more snow [link] …
CONFIRMED: Researchers show that military intervention has been dominated by need for oil http://bit.ly/1wAXxJd
Obama’s Plan: Allow Drilling in Atlantic, but Limit It in Arctic http://nyti.ms/1D4jRzH
“The more that decision-making is centralized, the more intensively those decisions will be distorted by ignorance.” http://bit.ly/1tcWfZM
John Dizard taking John Kerry to task for making false claims about disasters & climate change [link]
Richard Tol: Radical Greens [link]
In major shift, Obama administration will plan for rising seas in all federal projects. http://wpo.st/JgS20
Catch up on all the climate and energy amendments in the #infrastructurebill http://j.mp/1EU5wHM
“How much are you willing to spend in an attempt to mitigate future global warming?” [link] …
Energy
Biofuels are not a green alternative to fossil fuels, [link]
One upside of cheap oil — it’s helping countries ditch their fossil fuel subsidies: http://bit.ly/1A3o9Kl
Carbon offsets: a Basilica to Bad Policy [link]
Fred Pearce: Is the fossil fuel business in decline? [link]
8 solar trends to follow in 2015 [link] …
The next energy revolution: our brains [link] …
New research paper from Harvard on energy efficiency http://bit.ly/1By7OLp
Energy efficiency paradox and climate change policy http://bit.ly/1y6igpR
Science
We need better science on the way science is done. [link] …
Team of rivals: does science need ‘adversarial collaboration’? [link] …
Met Office puts high odds on the next few years being warmer than 2014 [link]
Why snowfall is one of the hardest predictions for a meteorologist http://bit.ly/1A6R2Fi
Pew Research Center: 87% of scientists say global warming mostly due to humans http://ow.ly/IcRvT
Study: Climate change to bring more nasty La Ninas http://usat.ly/1CEbNrg
Physicists find link between Sun and #ElNino cycles http://ow.ly/HTowV
Arctic sea-ice erratic as expected. [link]
Tales of future weather: it’s not more ensemble studies we need, but tales of high-impact weather in a future climate http://rdcu.be/b2j5
Scientists under the microscope [link] …
Snowfall measurement: A flaky history [link] …
No “China Deal” for now, Obama ends visit to India with stalemate http://nyti.ms/1D25BHL
Comparing observations & CMIP5 projections of global temperature [link] …
New paper finds sea levels 20-30 feet higher & temps warmer during the last interglacial vs the present [link]
The hiatus in global temperature trends: No systematic error in climate models [link] …
Climate Models Disagree on Why Temperature “Wiggles” Occur: [link] …
Climate wars
The hazards of a climate science career [link]
New Blog Showcases Bad Climate Change Predictions [link] …
Mourning Our Planet: Climate Scientists Share Their Grieving Process [link]
Warmists take the hardest hits [link]
Cowardly Calls For Climate Scientist’s Firing http://wmbriggs.com/post/15170
Climate Skepticism in British Newspapers, 2007–2011 [link]
Can the media please stop quoting Bill Nye (Science Guy) as a science expert? [link]
Sponge Bob Smear Pants [link] …
Another witch-hunt: Willie Soon fire him soon [link]
…Filed under: Week in review