by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye the past week.
The mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean is starting to give up its secrets [link]
Some good news: Ozone Hole Shows Signs of Shrinking, Scientists Say [link]
NSIDC: Greenland’s three melting surges rival 2012 [link]
Have 1 in 5 UK academics fabricated data? [link]
How social media can distort and misinform when communicating science [link]
Mann: “…small grain of truth to what [@curryja] is saying, but it really isn’t much more than a grain of truth” [link]
Hijacked! How Obama and the Left Killed NASA: The journey from the Moon to radical activism [link]
Antarctica Expert Dr. Eric Steig: “Evidence Antarctic Glacier Retreat Due To AGW “Is Weak” [link]
Sahel rainfall recovery linked to warming Mediterranean, study says [link]
Researchers say CO2 could by used instead of water in hydraulic fracturing [link]
What would we really have to do to cap #GlobalWarming at 2 degrees? We’ve got your options: [link] …And we’ve got them in a form you can play with! [link]
Breathing space for the Gulf Stream [link]
TV maker Panasonic says it has developed the world’s best weather model [link]
A thought provoking essay on the state of universities [link]
Fed Energy Lab Forced To Close After ‘Disturbing’ Data Manipulation-[link]
People Deem Feminine Women Less Likely to Be Scientists -[link]
Interview with Ravetz: Democratizing Science in an Age of Uncertainty [link]
The Arctic observation gap and why US Arctic satellite observations
matter [link]
Paul Voosen’s profile on Dan Kahan: Seeking a climate of change [link]
U.S. Professors Investigated For Presenting Opposing Viewpoints [link]
“Contribution of large-scale circulation anomalies to changes in extreme precipitation frequency in United States” [link]
And yet another unaccounted for climate variable: snow algae accelerates melting of Arctic glaciers [link]
Status of U.S. numerical #weather prediction: Still a mess, according to UW’s Cliff Mass.[link]
NGeo: Freshwater from melting ice is not affecting the ocean conveyor – yet. [link]
Hurricane wind frequency and intensity in China down over past half century
[link]
A built-in oceanic phenomenon helps explain rapid termination of #ENSO events. [link]
MIT/Univ. of Washington study pegs likely cause of delayed rise in Antarctic sea temps. [link]
he Antarctic Has Been Warmer Than Now For Most Of The Last 8000 Years
[link]
Ocean impact on decadal Atlantic climate variability revealed by sea-level observations [link]
Study Finds More Evidence ‘Urban Heat Islands’ Are Warming Up Weather Stations [link]
Melt ponds suggest no Arctic sea-ice record this year [link]
A rant on peer review [link]
Filed under: Week in review