Overview of the week – scientific edition
by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my attention in the past few weeks
Hydroclimate change intensifies winter, spring, and summer across California from 1940 to 2019 [link]
When climate ruled the dinosaurs in Grand Staircase, Utah [link]
A minimal model for diagnosing stratospheric contribution to troposphere prediction skill [link]
A probabilistic framework to quantify the role of anthropogenic climate change in retreating sea-terminated glaciers. [link]
Biased estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity [link]
Long-term trends in extreme precipitation indices in Ireland https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joc.7475#.Ycmw-o9JX7k.twitter
How does wind create waves? [link]
The intrinsic water efficiency of plants in the Southwest US is increasing at an extremely rapid rate, mainly due to the ongoing “super drought” coupled with rising CO2 levels. [link]
How weather forecasting could spark a new kind of extreme event attribution [link]
In 2021, one of the largest ozone hole in Antarctica recorded [link]
The Cause of the Little Ice Age [link]
Climate-invariant machine learning [link]
Pielke Jr, R. Disasters of the 21st Century (July 25, 2020). https://ssrn.com/abstract=3660542… or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3660542…
Roadmap towards reliable forecasts of ice sheet contributions to sea level [link]
Ghil and Lucarini: The physics of variability and climate change (regarding recent blog discussion on variability within nature) [link]
Policy and technology
Responding to wildfire risk: the need for variable adaptation. Environmental Research Letter, 7 (1), 014018. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014018/pdf
Increasing climate disputes: Hot spots to watch [like]
The peoples of the low carbon economy [link]
Why can’t we just leave nature alone. We shouldn’t be too confused as we tinker with the environment to try and save it. [link]
Genetically modified crops like golden rice will save countless children [link]
Why is California cutting rooftop solar incentives? [link]
We can build houses to survive tornadoes. We have not [link]
The concept of rationality in the context of risk analysis: Reviewing and clarifying the definition of ideas and interpretations [link]
Top stories of 2021 on carbon removal [link]
Netherlands: Wealth and technology can overcome the wrath of nature [link]
Geothermal energy is skyrocketing [link]
“Finding consensus on how to improve the food system in the United States or elsewhere — or even what constitutes “improvement” — is difficult, [link]
China has connected its first small modular nuclear reactor to the grid [link]
Escaping the Malthusian Trap: How the pandemic allowed us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty [link]
There is never a ‘population bomb’ [link]
Bubble screen could reduce hurricane intensity in Gulf of Mexico [link]
Innovative strategies to sequester CO2 in the ocean [link]
New perspectives on the climate impacts of fossil fuels in today’s energy systems https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3968359
Tornado . Security and Vulnerability [link]
Congo’s race to release carbon bombs [link]
To deal with climate change, deal with corruption [link]
About science and scientists
Saltelli and Ravetz: Uncertainty, Risk and Ignorance [link]
Saltelli et al: Science, the endless frontier of regulatory capture [link]
The 10 weirdest stories from physics in 2021 [link]
Abigail Shrier on Freedom in the Age of Fear [link]
Cruel and unusual punishment for professor Jason Kilborn of the John Marshall School of Law in U. Illinois-Chicago https://judithcurry.com/2022/01/08/week-in-review-science-edition-132/
How to detect political bias? [link]
Why scatter plots suggest causality and what we can do about it [link]
Slowing down canonical progress in major scientific fields. Breakthrough research and novel ideas needed [link]
Fish science: concerns about the integrity of science in the White House [link]
The double-edged sword of climate disaster reporting [link]
The 60-year-old scientific base that helped kill Covid [link]
Princeton students counterattack: let students think for themselves [link]
Universalism, not centralism [link]
Climate change advocates [link]
The Overton Window: the most misunderstood concept in politics [link]
The politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change [link]
Does the CCP control Extinction Rebellion? [link]
Special issue on the psychology of climate change [link]