by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week
Researchers uncover a cause for early 20th century Arctic warming [link] JC note: basically, the stadium wave
Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1200 years [link]
Good discussion of the current #Arctic sea ice melt season [link] ….
Decades of spreading evergreen forest in Siberia has #ClimateFeedback implications. [link]
Slowdown of Global Surface Air Temperature Increase and Acceleration of Ice Melting [link]
Reassessment of 20th century global mean sea level rise [link]
“strong correlation” between SLR & an ENSO Index [link].
Reconstructing the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC), an area of limited observations [link] …
Why should we study the deep ocean? It’s a massive reservoir for heat & carbon [link] …
Data defy notion that seas get fresher with more #rain and saltier with more #evaporation. [link]
Different roles of dynamic and thermodynamic effects in enhanced semi-arid warming [link]
Model under-representation of decadal Pacific trade wind trends + link to tropical Atlantic bias [link]
A hiatus in the tropopause layer change [link]
Replicating Annual North Atlantic Hurricane Activity 1878-2012 from Environmental Variables [link]
Influence of regional Arctic sea ice extent on lagged snowfall in the contiguous United States [link]
We have some interesting new info on why Antarctica is the slower-warming pole [link] …
Large anomalies in lower stratospheric water vapour and ice during the 2015–2016 El Niño [link]
Attribution of forced decadal climate change in coupled & uncoupled ocean-atmosphere models [link]
Volcanic ‘geoengineering’ may have caused a #climate catastrophe that killed most animal species [link]
Study: ‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities [link] …
Arctic decadal variability in a warming world [link]
Black carbon emissions in Russia: A critical review [link]
New #JPhysOceanogr study shows South China Sea weakens N. Pacific flow features–enhancing variability over decades: [link]
Internal Variability in Simulated and Observed Tropical Tropospheric Temperature Trends [link]
Special issue of Deep-Sea Research devoted to the Antarctic Peninsula now published [link] …
Causality of the drought in the southwestern United States based on observations [link]
Long-term trends in precipitation & pr. extremes + underlying mechanisms in US Great Basin [link]
Changing wet and dry seasons [link] …
New paper by Richard Tol: Private benefit of carbon [link]
the ‘devastating environmental impacts’ of the manufacture of phones and wind turbines [link]
A Bayesian hierarchical model for climate-change detection and attribution [link]
Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analysis [link]
Sea Levels Are Stable To Falling At About Half Of The World’s Tide Gauges [link]
About Science
Why the climate debate is paralyzing free thinkers and undermining democracy [link]
Saltelli and Funtowicz: What is science’s crisis really about? [link]
The crisis of expertise: its time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy [link]
“Scientists who made alarming forecasts thrived, those who didn’t were forced to seek greener pastures.” [link] …
Is philosophy simply harder than science? (SPOILER: yes) [link]
When science is hijacked in pursuit of ideologically driven economic policies [link]
EMBO Reports with a hard-hitting commentary that takes on the climate thought-police in the science community–>[link] …
Consensus science and peer review [link]
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