by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this week.
Does CO2 mean increased crop water productivity? [link]
Carbon isotopes characterize rapid changes in carbon dioxide during the last deglaciation [link]
Climate alarmism and the muzzling of independent science [link]
Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE [link]. A third of the world’s basins are under stress.
Nature: Recent improvement and projected worsening of weather in the U.S. [link]
Guardian: Warmer, more agreeable weather undermining U.S. climate action [link]
What is the polar vortex, and how does it influence weather? [link]
Richard Muller: Classifications of Climate Change Thinkers [link]
Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2.0C [link]
Faulty climate models: Drought forecasts are barely trustworthy [link]
Pachouli finally sacked by TERI [link]
When Americans thought hair was a window to the soul [link]
Columbia University begrudgingly admits the benefit of CO2 on crops [link]
The replication crisis in science has just begun [link]
Study claims: Ancient tectonic activity trigger for ice ages [link]
New lit review finds “population susceptibility to heat has been decreasing” [link]
New post from Steve McIntyre: Gavin Schmidt and reference period ‘trickery’ [link]
Scientists Asked to Boycott Major Conference After AGU Votes to Retain Exxon Ties [link]
Acidification of East Siberian Arctic shelf by river and terrestrial inputs, not atmospheric CO2 [link]
Book argues that faculty members should actively resist the ‘culture of speed’ in modern academe [link]
People are either ‘insightfuls’ or ‘analysts’ when it comes to problem-solving [link]
Scientific regress [link]
Who says bacon is bad? [link]
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, revisited [link]
Big science is broken [link]
Weather and climate in megacities [link]
The Southern #Ocean is cooling while the world warms. One MIT grad finds another possible culprit that’s not GHG. [link]
GOES R Launch Date Set: Will Revolutionze Weathr Forecasting
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The reproducibility crisis is good for science [link]
RIP Bill Gray [link]
Experts assess whether #NegativeEmissions technologies are realistic in practice | [link]
Alexander von Humboldt: the man who predicted harmful human–induced climate change in 1800 [link]
The role of the worm in recycling waste water [link]
Donors decline to back more fracking research after study finds no link to water contamination [link]
Scientists discover new coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River [link]
Solid-state photochemistry as a formation mechanism for Titan’s stratospheric ice clouds [link]
Five strategies for when decisions are really hard [link]Filed under: Week in review