by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Nonlinear response of mid-latitude weather to changing Arctic [link]
The Blob is back: what warm ocean mass means for weather and wildlife [link]
The shortfalls of biodiversity [link]
Ancient coral colonies reveal prehistoric warming event occurred earlier than previously thought [link]
Arctic temps off the charts. Record slow sea ice recovery after Sept minimum. Details: [link]
Will global warming alter winter wx/climate statistics? Certainly. But when, where, and how not so easily discerned. [link] …
Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: what we don’t know after a decade of research [link] …
Antarctica’s Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster — And From Beneath [link]
Atmospheric Water Balance and Variability in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis [link]
New research explores how #climate helped ancient seafarers cross the Pacific: [link] …
Field study successfully tests a new tool for tracking ocean acidification [link]
Sea surface micro layer [link]
Advancing #Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales [link]
Innovative graphical visualizations of climate change [link]
Polar vortex shifting due to climate change, extending winter, study finds: [link]
Have scientists solved the “methane riddle”? New data shows the rise in methane emissions is partly from microbes. [link]
Impact of decadal cloud variations on Earth’s energy budget. [link]
“Land’s complex role in climate change” [link] …
Cold snap chills northern China, areas experiencing lowest October temperatures on record [link]
Eurasian snow cover and the polar vortex: how it relates to US winter [link]
Climate change policy
The Stern Review of economics and climate change: 10 years on [link]
UNEP: Urgent action needed within 3 years to meet 1.5 deg target set in Paris. @CarbonBrief analysis #COP22 [link] …
12 reports to read before the COP22 UN climate summit [link]
Rational vs. “Feel-Good” Carbon Policy — Transferability, Subsidiarity, and Separation. [link]
AGU’s TEX Program to Lead Climate Effort Launched by White House [link]
About science and scientists
Blame bad incentives for bad science [link]
Signs science might be starting to focus less on journal impact factor and more on real-world impact? [link]
Walking on eggshells: how political correctness is changing the campus dynamic [link]
Academic freedom? Gone—And Good Riddance [link]
ThinkProgress Claims It Didn’t Try To Torpedo Climate Scientist’s Career [link]
Richard Epstein: Free speech and sexual harassment at Yale [link]
How heterodox is your university? [link]
See how the most influential science comes in waves [link]Filed under: Week in review