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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 ...

https://patricktbrown.org/2023/09/05/the-not-so-secret-formula-for-publishing-a-high-profile-climate-change-research-paper/

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https://patricktbrown.org/2023/08/09/new-peer-reviewed-paper-highlighting-a-conceptual-error-in-the-peer-reviewed-literature-that-leads-to-major-exaggerations-of-the-influence-of-climate-change-on-extreme-weather-impacts/

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/

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https://patricktbrown.org/2019/11/24/net-economic-impact-of-un-global-warming-mitigation-targets/

It’s easy to construct a persuasive argument, it’s much more difficult to figure out the truth…

https://patricktbrown.org/2019/09/19/this-video-is-a-visual-explanation-of-meteorological-skew-t-log-p-sounding-diagrams-aka-thermodynamic-diagrams/