Weekend Links

1) The Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans, and discussion here (via bb)

2) "We find that in the absence of Asian anthropogenic emissions, 20% of MDA8 O3 exceedances of 60 ppbv in the model would not have occurred in the southwestern USA." (via Marion)

3) Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in Northern Mesopotamia via satellite (PNAS)

4) "[S]uch records suggest that the last deglaciation was punctuated by a dramatic period of sea-level rise, of about 20 metres, in less than 500 years." (Nature, via Kyle)

5) Coastal California fog contains 5x more mercury than ever recorded in rainwater

6) How much of the neuroimaging literature should we discard? Or, the importance of Bonferroni corrections  (via MR)

7) Updating the CRU and HadCRUT temperature data