Week in review – science edition

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

Climate modeling suggests Venus may have been habitable [link]
Earthlike habitable planet discovered around the closest star to the Sun [link]
Piecing together the Arctic’s sea ice history back to 1850 [link]
Yes, climate change threatens #biodiversity. But the biggest threats to life remain guns, nets, and bulldozers [link] …
35 New Scientific Publications Confirm Ocean Cycles, Sun Are Main Climate Drivers: [link]
There Is No Scientific Method [link]
#climatechange feeds Chesapeake Bay algal blooms via droughts and downpours  [link]
Climate change threatens species — but agriculture, hunting and fishing are far worse, researchers say [link]
Is the detection of sea level rise imminent? Wow, compare press release
[link] with paper [link]
Sizing up the tsunami thread [link]
Seeing ‘Frankenstein’ through the lens of climate change [link]
Must science be testable?  A defense of Popper [link]
Good article about the drought of U.S. landfalling hurricanes [link]
Academic Orthodoxy Is A Bigger Threat Than Climate Change [link]
Tweets can be used to create real-time maps of floods [link]
Should scientific research be funded publicly? [link]
Observed vs ‘Real’ Global Temperature. What thermometers do & don’t yet show! [link]
Ahem! Observed precip record too noisy to attribute obs changes in extreme US precip to human-caused climate change. [link]
More adjustments: “In the case they havent been adequately corrected, Little Ice Age may appear colder than reality” [link]
How do volcanic eruptions affect climate? Found out in our new Nature Collection  [link]
New Solar Research Raises Climate Questions — Interview with Prof Valentina Zharkova [link]
The anomalous change in the QBO in 2015-16 [link]
Greenland ice sheet ‘summit’ plunged to record low July temperature. So what? [link]
‘Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change’ [link]
NSIDC on Arctic Sea Ice: ‘A new record low September ice extent now appears to be unlikely.” [link]
What would it take to achieve the Paris temperature targets? [link]
Kelvin Helmholtz #clouds resemble breaking #ocean waves [link]
Here is Rutgers Snow Lab analysis of NH snow cover. Not much change since mid-1990s. [link]
The tyranny of simple explanations [link]
“Intellectual orthodoxy is a bigger threat than climate change” [link]
Interesting new course.  Everything is fucked: the syllabus [link]Filed under: Week in review

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