Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

The latest on the cloud-aerosol debate – this is really interesting [link]
Why do good researchers end up in trouble? Lessons from researcher rehab: [link]
Pacific Stalagmites Cast Doubt On Climate Models And Projections [link]
Taming the Greenland melting global warming hype [link]
Iceland CO2 storage project locks away gas, and fast [link]
The National Academies’ Gene Drive study ignores important & obvious issues [link]
Scientists tag elephant seals to measure Antarctic sea temperatures [link]
Paper on Southern Ocean albedo, inter-hemispheric energy transports and the double ITCZ (open access) [link] …
From Flint to Yucca Mountain, politicized regulators are doing harm [link]
Overfishing and pollution kill corals in a warming world [link]
Widely cited article on personality traits and politocal views reported results opposite of what data actually show. Epic correction of the decade [link]
An Ivy League professor explains chaos theory, the prisoner’s dilemma, and why math isn’t really boring [link]
How climate change could change African migration patterns [link]
Sometimes Embracing Emotional Distress Is the Best Medicine [link]
The stigma of failure slows scientific progress. Negative results in science are just as essential as positive ones [link]
Alaskan climate mystery: Alaska is a net carbon repository, or sink. [link]
Carry on flying: why activists should take to the skies [link]
Burning “liquid sunlight” instead of fossil fuels is getting closer to reality [link]
New technique could make climate models incorporate more small-scale details: [link]
AGU editor:  To work in climate science you have a “civic responsibility” to be a climate activist. [link]
Did ancient climate change ignite human evolution? [link]
Schrödinger’s panda: Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back [link]
‘Groovy’ science was playful & improvised, small-scale & done in the name of peace by dropouts from specialisation. [link] …
Revealing ice flow patterns w/historical Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photos [link]
Important essay on the under-appreciated drive for sense-making. [link]
The sun has gone completely blank [link]Filed under: Week in review

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