I know the millions of you out there have been wondering WHAT have I been doing to be so unproductive at this website for so long. Well, I was being productive in the PEER-REVIEWED literature! Last July, the article appeared in the American Meteorological Society journal titled, “Weather, Climate, and Society.” Prof. Dave Schultz, U. of Manchester, England, my co-author is also the author of the book, “Eloquent Science” and a highly regarded atmospheric scientist.
The article:
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/17/3/WCAS-D-24-0076.1.xml
After it FINALLY (story on that some other time) “got in” to a different journal than the one we started with, I got a request to write a shorter, more accessible version by someone I greatly admire, Dr. Judith Curry (former chair, Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech). That plain language, more candid version appeared on her website, Climate etc. not long afterwards. I recommend Curry’s 2023 book for an even handed view of the climate problem, “Climate Uncertainty and Risk.”
The plain language version:
It then appeared on another widely viewed website, What’s Up With That, always worth reading, right away. That was a big surprise.
Now it’s spread to several other websites! It is amazing to me that such an old story, but one that’s not such great a science one, could draw so much attention today. ALR
