by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
In the news
Asthma Justification for EPA Regulations Gutted by the Latest Science [link]
Sea-level rise and sinking land make deltas extremely vulnerable [link]
A new NASA program to assess the melting of Greenland ice sheet [link]
Sahara desert greening due to climate change? [link]
Fracking Chemicals Linked to Cancer, According to New Report [link]
Pacific Decadal Oscillation surging again after spring dip [link]
Global warming seen lurking behind this summer’s deadly heat waves, from Europe to Japan [link]
If global warming really did pause, the planet just pressed ‘play’ again [link] …
What the Colorado waste water spill tells us about mining contamination [link]
New papers and blog posts
New sunspot analysis shows rising global temperatures not linked to solar activity [link] …
The New Sunspot Data … and Satellite Sea Levels [link] …
Penguins’ Climate-Change Solution? Cliff-Climbing [link]
No Consensus: Earth’s Top of Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in CMIP5-Archived (IPCC AR5) Climate Models [link]
How do small Canadian rivers affect freshwater flow from Arctic to N. Atlantic? [link]
History of temperature scales and their impact on the climate trends [link] …
Cross-national analysis of farmer climate change attitudes in high income countries [link]
About science and scientists
The future of science will soon be upon us: implications for research publication and funding [link]
IPCC Chair election fever: There are only 8 weeks to go until the election for the biggest job in climate science: [link] …
Why do people believe conspiracy theories? Because they feel they lack control over their lives. New study (not by Lewandowsky) [link]
The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance,… [link]
Scientist, opine thyself! [link]
Affirmative consent: the new campus totalitarianism [link]
What Doctors Can Learn from Journalists about Ethics in Medical Reporting [link]
The great Victorian climate debate [link] …
Seeing Struggling Math Learners as ‘Sense Makers,’ Not ‘Mistake Makers’ [link]
History of peer review [link] …
An interview with @CassSunstein: From #groupthink to collective intelligence. [link]
Nope you can’t learn about climate change in Georgia schools [link]Filed under: Week in review