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The Social Feedback Loop that Puts Blinders on Climate Science

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Correcting the Record Regarding My Essay in The Free Press

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece in The Free Press on perverse incentives in scientific publishing. I described the strong incentives researchers face to publish high-profile papers and how those incentives naturally push researchers to mold their research questions and the … Continue reading

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The Not-so-Secret Formula for Publishing a High-Profile Climate Change Research Paper.

There is a formula for publishing climate change impacts research in the most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals. Following it brings professional success, but it comes at a cost to society. This is a version of a piece that is … Continue reading

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New Article highlighting a conceptual error in the peer-reviewed literature that leads to major exaggerations of the influence of climate change on extreme weather impacts

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Meteorology and Climatology of Wind and Solar Droughts

We have a paper out on a field of increasing importance in meteorology: The analysis of synoptic-scale extreme reductions in wind and solar power energy resources (i.e., wind and solar “droughts”). If you like talks more than papers here is … Continue reading

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Claims in “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America” vs. observational data

A few people asked me about the accuracy of a recent NY Times Magazine / NY Times Daily Podcast story “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America”. It contains plenty of interesting discussion on e.g., property insurance under a changing climate … Continue reading

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Tipping Points in the Climate System

Lecture on tipping points in the climate system from my frosh, general education level Global Warming course.

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Seasonal Prediction of Particularly-Impactful Hot Days

My talk on this research at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting. PTBrown_AGU_2019_Poster AGU E-Poster

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Net Economic Impact of UN Global Warming Mitigation Targets

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This video is a visual explanation of meteorological Skew-T, Log-P sounding diagrams (aka thermodynamic diagrams)

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