Minding the Sciences—Wicked Science and Understanding Climate Change: Uncertainty, Risk, and Pragmatics

There is no magic wand, no scientific alchemy, that can easily upend cognitive catastrophizing about weather events.

Chinese Government Urges Dam Operators at Maximum Capacity to Hold Back the Flood

Authorities have ordered dam operators to try to hold back incoming flood water, as Chinese manufacturing and farming heartland cities in the Yangtze Delta are bracing for yet more severe…

Borrowed time: Climate change threatens U.S. mortgage market

From Politico “Everyone is exposed” as taxpayer-backed loans and insurance face a coming storm. By ZACK COLMAN and KATY O’DONNELL 06/08/2020 04:30 AM EDT U.S. taxpayers could be on the…

Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case?

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on August 22, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry My new manuscript is now available. A link to my new paper…