https://patricktbrown.org/2024/01/07/the-social-feedback-loop-that-puts-blinders-on-climate-science/
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 ...
https://patricktbrown.org/2023/09/12/correcting-the-record-regarding-my-essay-in-the-free-press/
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 ...
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Estimating the human influence on extreme weather events and their economic costs is relevant to many policy discussions around climate change including those that concern the social cost of carb...
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 “drought...
https://patricktbrown.org/2021/09/28/meteorology-and-climatology-of-wind-and-solar-droughts/
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 discussio...
https://patricktbrown.org/2020/10/03/claims-in-how-climate-migration-will-reshape-america-vs-data/
Lecture on tipping points in the climate system from my frosh, general education level Global Warming course.
https://patricktbrown.org/2020/04/13/tipping-points-in-the-climate-system/
My talk on this research at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting. PTBrown_AGU_2019_Poster AGU E-Poster
https://patricktbrown.org/2020/01/03/seasonal-prediction-of-particularly-impactful-hot-days/