by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Policy/politics
Barack Obama: Time to weigh in—who deserves the #ChampionDenier title? [link]
“We need to put a price on denial in politics.” @algore [link]
Senator McConnell Urges States to Help Thwart Obma’s ‘War on Coal’ [link]
States Can “Just Say No” to the EPA’s Carbon Rule, Expert Says [link]
FEMA to States: No Climate Planning, No Money [link]
Obama Orders 40 Percent Cut in Government Emissions [link] …
Obama Quietly Pushes To Sign Global Climate Treaty This Year [link]
U.S. Budget 2015: Key climate and energy announcements [link]
Republicans seek to push climate change off national security agenda [link]
A Reagan approach to climate change – by George Schulz [link]
Scientific American: What impact will #CyclonePam have on Paris? [link]
The UN’s new disaster deal offers practical advice on dealing with climate impacts [link]
World Bank: Natural disasters destroy lives, hurt economies & increase poverty. It’s why we work on risk reduction: [link]
How do you recover from (natural) disasters? Read about experience of vulnerable countries [link]
What Indian govt can learn from China’s air cleanup campaign: [link]
Climate politics in the Arctic [link]
Energy, water, food
Rupert Darwall: Central planning with market features – how renewable subsidies destroyed the UK electricity market [link]
The global economy grew in 2014. Carbon emissions didn’t. Will that last? [link]
A note of caution on #IEA CO2 estimate. China revised 2013 coal use up 8%, so expect changes to 2014 [link]
“Green Energy Causes Record Spike In Electricity Prices” [link]
Improving #energy intensity is key to the #climate fight. But how much control do policymakers have over trends? [link]
Unsung heroes of the fight against climate change are entrepreneurs and politicians changing our energy consumption [link]
Foreign Policy: Dirty Pretty Rock (coal) [link]
Pumping CO2 underground can help fight climate change. Why is it stuck in second gear? [link]
Why is no one talking about sustainable cooling? [link]
Analysts examine energy security in sub-Saharan Africa [link]
Rare note of sanity amidst the hysteria: The Economics of California’s Drought – Alex Tabarrok (Prof Economics, GMU) [link]
Could water markets help solve the American West’s water woes? [link]
Forget about the drought — Americans are wasting a trillion gallons of water per year on leaks [link]
The Southwestern Water Wars [link]
Ensia: Gulp. New view of global groundwater shows urgent need to reverse depletion [link]
Your shower is wasting huge amounts of energy and water. Here’s what you can do about it. [link]
Ensia: Grounded: Why soil matters to the health of the planet and us [link]
Climate-adaptation techniques in Kenyan farms fights food-poverty [link]
Science/research
New paper in Nature: An atmospheric origin of the multi-decadal bipolar seesaw [link]
“Measuring the pulse of planet Earth to reveal hidden patterns of climate change — ScienceDaily” [link]
New paper finds California drought is “mainly the result of (natural) variability in precipitation” [link]
Arctic sea ice hit a record low this winter. Here’s why it matters: [link]
Kirk Englehardt: Trust in science problem not quite solved. [link]
New study asks whether climate change is implicated in the 2013–2014 California drought? [link]
Sea Level Rise Added $2 Billion to Sandy’s Toll in New York City [link]
NSF unveils public access plan – all funded papers to be #oa after 12 months: [link]
Reto Knutti: Mysterious Models and Enigmatic Ensembles [link]
Nature: A clean, green science machine: Do we really need to travel to conferences? [link]
Chris Mooney: Just because Antarctic sea ice is growing doesn’t mean we should worry any less about that vast ice sheet [link]
Cyclone Pam: Untangling the complex science on tropical storms & climate change [link]
Polar lows: What fuels Arctic hurricanes? Excellent blog on the fundamentals of polar mesoscale cyclones @meteodenny [link]
When does evidence-based policy turn into policy-based evidence? [link]
Climate and science wars
Climate expert John Christy on funding: ‘No one is paying me to have my view’. [link]
U. of Delaware Refuses to Disclose Funding Sources of Its Climate Contrarian [link]
Koch Industries refuses to comply with US senators’ climate investigation [link]
Roger Pielke Jr: “The pressures on academics to conform (or not deviate) is very high.” [link]
Double Standard: Warmist climate scientist fails to disclose conflict of interest funds from green billionaire [link]
97% consensus paper: Cook admits, with a two year delay, that interrater reliability is low [link]
The race for the next IPCC chair is hotting up [link]
Jan Pascal Van Ypersele: Climate Politics: Does the IPCC Have a Future? [link]
How Much Did Greenpeace Pay van Ypersele? (candidate for IPCC Chair) [link]
.@algore ‘s tangled web of un-green investments [link]
Pachauri’s TERI: Not a Safe Place for Women [link]
Michael Kelly, FRS, in the Daily Mail: Why the Royal Society is wrong on climate change [link]
Climate Scientists Launch Personal Campaign About Why they Do What they Do [link]
Yes, we are seeing more attacks on academic freedom: guest post by @AliceDreger [link]
Essay by physicist Philip Moriarty: “I didn’t become an academic in order to be led. Nor did I become an academic to lead others” [link]
Dieticians in turmoil over conflicts of interest [link]
History of climate science: Tom Wigley – the skepticism and loyalty of CRU’s second director [link]
When it Comes To Science, Conservatives Are No More Biased About Science Than Liberals Are [link]
Good summary of evidence about how conservatives (and liberals) reach biased conclusions [link]
Humor
Is hell exothermic or endothermic? [link]
Hamlet grant review: “Excellent consideration of null and alternative hypotheses in proposed soliloquy of Act III.” [link]
Filed under: Week in review