by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
A detailed and understandable account of how raw data make it onto global temperature graphs [link]
Die Klimazwiebel: Hottest summer – what does this tell us? [link]
A relatively sensible perspective: Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change? [link]
Time running out for Larsen C? [link]
Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability [link]
A Nearly Ice-Free Northwest Passage [link]
Arctic sea ice decline is like a ball bouncing down a bumpy hill [link]
History: A reanalysis of Hurricane Camille (1969) [link]
Another paper modeling future tropical cyclones finds lower freq near SE coast, increase in open Atlantic. [link] …
The Record-Breaking 2015 Hurricane Season in the eastern North Pacific: An Analysis of Environmental Conditions [link]
Atlantic bathwater: Why the ocean is so warm right now and what it means [link]
NYTimes: Giant Coral Reef in Protected Area Shows New Signs of Life [link]
Big fish – and their pee – are key parts of coral reef ecosystems [link]
“Two centuries of [natural] decadal climate variability across the Pacific North American region” [link] …
New Survey Finds Antarctica Covered in More Ice Than Previously Thought [link]
Anticipating Disaster: Formal Climate Information vs. Traditional Ways of Knowing Floods and Droughts [link]
The BBC picks private weather forecaster as it ditches Met Office after 94 years [link]
Climate modeling suggests Venus may have been habitable [link]
Death of the Bering Strait theory for the population of the Americas [link]
Ever noticed that #rain has a smell? It’s known as #petrichor [link]
Today’s men are not nearly as strong as their dads were, researchers say [link]
The science of science
New paper condemns ‘Atmosfear’ fear-based approach to communicating effect of Climate Change on Extreme Weather [link] …
From the American Council on Science and Health: Political Correctness Hampers Advancement of Science [link]
Science communication as a moral imperative [link]
New political science initiative calls for evaluating the research process before knowing the results [link]
Flawed citation practices facilitate the unsubstantiated perception of a global trend toward increased jellyfish blooms [link]
Should writing for the public count toward tenure? [link]
People see the weather differently depending on their politics (high importance of minimizing cognitive dissonance). [link]…
The impact of academia on Parliament: 45 percent of Parliament-focused impact case studies were from social sciences [link]
News from the alarmed
Obama: Climate Change ‘Could Mean No More Glaciers In Glacier National Park,’ Threaten the Statue of Liberty [link]
Scientist calls for World War mobilization vs climate change [link]
“Is it useful to think of climate change as a ‘world war’?” [link] …
Climate activists: Should we be having kids in the age of climate change? [link]
World’s leading sea ice expert (Peter Wadhams) warms that the Arctic sea ice death spiral will make global warming worse [link]
New study: Leo DiCaprio got people talking about climate change, if only for awhile. [link] …
Piers Sellers: Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of theory [link]. If you read one article from this subsection, make it this one.
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