by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Variability in decadal global temperature increases strongly with climate sensitivity [link]
1200 year reconstruction of temperature extremes in the northeastern Mediterannean region [link] Extreme heat years have “substantially” declined over the last 450 years (since CO2 emissions began rising). The warmest and highest extreme years occurred during Medieval times.
Global extent of climate change is ‘unparalleled’ in past 2000 years. [link]
Marine heatwaves in a changing climate [link]
The climate history of the whole of the Holocene not constrained by a 2000-year limit of convenience (link: https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/06/11/chaoticholocene/) tambonthongchai.com/2019/06/11/cha…
Nick Lutso: Why can’t we predict weather more than two weeks in advance [link]
New method to assess the urban heat island effect [link]
Earth’s radiative imbalance from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present [link]
Compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes [link]
‘It snuck up on us’: Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth [link]
Nice article on clouds. A Cloudspotters’ Guide to Climate Change [link]
Astronomers discover another ‘earth’ [link]
Corrections to ocean-temperature record resolve puzzling regional differences. Great N&V by Zeke Hausfather https://go.nature.com/32D7wXl
Interesting new paper proposing correction to early-century SST records (link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1349-2) nature.com/articles/s4158…
Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: what we dont know after a decade of research [link]
Holocene breakup and reestablishment of the Petermann Ice tongue, Northwest Greenland [link]
Ancient civilizations had sea ports along West India’s coast that are presently far inland, suggesting sea levels were 2-3 m higher than now at ~270 ppm CO2. Notice the “submerged” coasts with the visualized 2 m higher sea levels (graph). [link]
‘The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) has a Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) of 5.3K [link]
the atmosphere may respond differently to Arctic sea ice loss depending on the phase of the Quasi-biennial Oscillation (QBO). + [Open Summary]https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/qbo-and-arctic-sea-ice/+ [Paper] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL083095
Social science, technology & policy
New Pigou paper on carbon taxes [link]
How Dutch stormwater management could mitigate damage from hurricanes [link]
Why are Atlantic and Gulf coast property owners building back bigger after hurricanes? [link]
The limits of strategic messaging [link]
Could renewable natural gas be the next big thing in green energy? [link]
Warren Pearce: climate deadlines, politics and our flickering futures [link]
Are bioplastics better for the Environment? It’s complicated. [link]
The environmental issues Republicans can’t ignore [link]
Climate solution: use carbon dioxide to generate electricity [link]
Approaching climate change solutions with baby steps [link]
What you think about landfill and recycling is probably wrong [link]
About science and scientists
Academic mobbing undermines open inquiry and destroys the soul of universities [link]
“Humans are tribal creatures. They were not designed to reason dispassionately about the world; rather, they were designed to reason in ways that promote the interests of their coalition.” [link]
Publish AND perish: the death of a Professor at Imperial College London [link]
Climate grief: fears about the planet’s future weigh on Americans [link] Incite panic with exaggerations and misinformation, then express concern that people are panicking. [link]
Does science advance one funeral at a time? [link]
The desire to attract good publicity causes universities to oversell their achievements, damaging public trust in science [link]
Physician gets fired for questioning trans orthodoxy [link]
Tenured, white, male, well-resourced historians argue they’re engaging in an “accepted practice” of “distilling” scholarship when withholding credit to a junior scholar. [link]
Lawmakers warned of brain drain in climate science [link]