by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
If Congress invests in seasonal weather forecast research, everyone wins. [link]
About those non-disappearing Pacific islands [link]
We’re placing far too much hope in pulling carbon dioxide out of the air, scientists warn [link]
New paper provides high resolution mass balance estimates of Greenland (1950-2015) [link]
Climate Model Simulations That Include Anthropogenic Forcing Are Not Compatible With Observed Trends on the Antarctic Peninsula [link]
Biofuels turn out to be a big climate mistake – here’s why [link]
Why 2015 was a big hurricane year in the Pacific [link]
Japan BOM: Global Warming will cause Heavier Snowfall [link] …
Update to Comparisons of tropospheric warming in climate models and satellite data [link]
Allowances for evolving coastal flood risk under uncertain local sea-level rise [link]
The diversity of socio-economic pathways and CO2 emissions scenarios: Insights from the investigation of a scenarios database [link]
New #BulletinAMS paper describes & assesses a new NWS project for operational #flashflood monitoring and prediction. [link]
Don’t Panic, But NASA Says Stellar Explosions Could Kill Everything On Earth [link]
Conditional nature of the local warming effect [link]
Study of the sea surface micro layer [link] …
Climate History Newsletter [link]
NASA: Megadrought Lasting Decades Is 99% Certain in American Southwest [link]
Before jumping on bandwagon re:global warming’s imfluence on wildfire statistics in western US, consider this: [link] …
Scientists Spend Arctic Winter Adrift on Sea Ice [link]
Policy and social science research
How natural #disasters are paid for makes a big difference to the total economic cost: [link]
Dan Kahan: even liberal climate change “believers” are a bit skeptical about what “climate scientists” are saying. [link] …
Spy agencies team up with National Academies for major study of social and behavioral science [link] …
“Poorly formulated policy is worse than no policy at all.” [link] …
Jeroen van der Sluijs: Challenges of risk migration in sustainable innovation ppt [link] & background report [link] …
Prospering Wisely: How research helps us confront the tough choices we face in creating a healthier society. [link]
Fewer than 1 in 10 conservative Republicans trusts climate scientists [link]
The cost of inaction: who will fund #lossanddamage ? [link] …
Scientists must have a say in the future of cities. [link]
The Paris Agreement and the inherent inconsistency of climate policy making [link]
Post-Factual Perceptions of Weather [link] …
Should scientists seek to influence policy making? Does policy-relevancy require activism? [link] …
About science and scientists
A Plan To Defend Against the War on Science. [link]
Correlation, causation and confusion [link]
“Self-righteous students aren’t new. What is new: administrators who bend to their will.” [link]
Gluckman: Most of the science used by governments is “incomplete & ambiguous” & “Academies tend not to reflect these dimensions.” [link]
Consensus on climate change: what that does and doesn’t mean [link]
The current campus climate of safe spaces and trigger warnings has created a chilling effect of self-censorship: [link]
Carl Sagan on humility and why science is essential for democracy [link] …
The 40 year old burnout [link]
Harm-Reduction Initiatives Violate Hippocratic Oath [link]
Study: Democrat Professors Outnumber Republicans 11.5 to 1 [link]
Filed under: Week in review