Week in review – science edition

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

Surface water shifting around the earth [link]
How did the 2015 Solar Eclipse affect temperatures [link]
Special edition on  Tipping Points in Past Global Changes [link].  Some interesting articles.
Ice at base of Dye3 (Greenland) at least 400kyr old, & at GRIP ~1 Myr. Implications for the long-term stability of the Greenland ice sheet [link]
Links found between Pacific sea level & global temperature changes [link]
Experts assess the feasibility of negative emissions [link]
Delaying mitigation to 2040 could require 160 years of geoengineering to stay below 2 C: [link]
Comment: Two views of ocean acidification: which is fatally flawed? [link]
Chris Colose: Hemispherically asymmetric volcanic forcing of tropical hydroclimate during the last millennium [link]
ChemTrails: Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program [link]
ARCTIC SEA ICE –Persistence Puzzles [link]
Peter Wadhams: Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be ice free [link]
The danger of ‘crying wolf’ in predicting an ice-free Arctic summer [link]
New #solarenergy forecasting system developed by #NCAR could save millions of dollars [link]
Engineered Bacterium Turns Carbon Dioxide into Methane Fuel [link]
The Coming Solar PV Revolution Will Be Electrifying [link]
Energy storage: opportunities and obstacles. [link]
Solar dish sets steamy thermal energy efficiency record [link]
Possibly habitable planet found around our nearest neighbour star [link]
This is very interesting: The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought [link]
About science
Why experts get it wrong: being knowledgeable about a subject implants false memories [link]
‘Highly Tweeted Articles Were 11 Times More Likely to Be Highly Cited’ [link]
MichaelEMann and Stefan Lewandowsky: How to Identify Trolling Denial vs. Honest Skepticism [link]
Lewandowsky and Mann in psycho pen [link]
“A Dummies’ Guide to ‘Debate, Denial and Doubt’ by Dummies, for Dummies” [link]
Opinion:  Why the public should mistrust science [link]
Why scientists are losing the fight to communicate science to the public [link]
Why the University of Chicago’s Anti–‘Safe Space’ Letter Is Important [link] …
A speech code for lawyers, banning viewpoints that express ‘bias,’ including in law-related social activities [link]
 
 
 
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