Climate Etc.

COVID-19 discussion thread VII

Posted on May 19, 2020 by curryja | 302 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting papers that I’ve spotted over the past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Culturally-determined response to climate change: Part III

Posted on May 16, 2020 by curryja | 53 comments

by Andy West

Climate change affirmative responses to all survey questions are culturally determined, and across National Publics related to religiousity. Cultural attitudes inappropriately push climate policy.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Greening the planet and slouching towards Paris?

Posted on May 14, 2020 by curryja | 114 comments

by Patrick J. Michaels

A new paper finds higher than expected CO₂ fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations. The paper predicts that the Earth is going to gain nearly three times as much green matter as was predicted by the IPCC AR5.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought

Posted on May 10, 2020 by niclewis | 444 comments

By Nic Lewis

Introduction

A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20[1]) appears to have been largely responsible for driving government actions in the UK and, to a fair extent, in the US and some other countries. Until that report came out, the strategy of the UK government, at least, seems to have been to rely on the build up of ‘herd immunity’ to slow the growth of the epidemic and eventually cause it to peter out. Continue reading →

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