by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
New J.Clim paper: hi res model finds fewer but stronger, wetter, and larger tropical cyclones with global warming [link] …
PNAS: the biosphere has become less constrained by water stress globally [link]
Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems [link]
Himalayan Glaciers Have Been Melting For 400 Years, Scientists Discover [link]
How fast is Earth warming? Ocean heat content and sea level rise measurements may provide a more reliable answer than atmospheric measurements. [link]
Mann and Oreskes: assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events [link]
Model v. observation differences in western US show need to bolster mountain area datasets. [link]
“When the polynyas occur- roughly every 75 years…release valve for the ocean’s heat, said the researchers.” [link] …
Arthur Petersen on notions of reliability, Relevant Dominant Uncertainty [link]
SST response to anthropogenic and external forcing + impact on AMO and PDO [link]
North American wintertime temperature anomalies: role of El Niño & differential teleconnections [link]
Interested in probability of #flooding during #ElNino? @NatureComms paper highlights new work on this: [link]
Little Ice Age was global: Implications for current global warming [link] …
New article: Highly variable Pliocene sea surface conditions in the Norwegian Sea [link] …
Indicators of climate change adaptation from molecules to ecosystems [link]
New review of climate sensitivity estimates from Knutti, Rugenstein and Hegerl [link] …
Denmark faces first ‘summer-less’ July in 38 years [link] Happened during the Little Ice Age also.
Monitoring ocean change in the 21st century [link]
Extreme reversals in successive winter season precipitation anomalies in Western United States [link]
Mechanistic drivers of re-emergence of anthropogenic carbon in the Equatorial Pacific [link]
Saturn unveiled: Ten notable findings from Cassini-Huygens [link]
Social science & policy
The effect of population growth on climate change impacts: [link] …
Richard Tol: There is a climate signal in US hurricane damages [link] …
Disaster risk expert says population growth and urban coastal development have created a ‘ticking time bomb’ [link]
“The most important thing we can do to prepare for weather extremes” [link]
Rethinking the ‘infrastructure’ discussion amid a blitz of hurricanes [link]
A good overview of the National Flood Insurance Program and its problems [link]
Winton Capital sets up climate change prediction market [link]
6 rules for rebuilding infrastructure in an era of ‘unprecedented’ weather events [link]
About science
Is intimidation the new campus threat? @JonHaidt explores in a @WSJ ed [link]
Poisonous science: the dark side of the lab [link]
PETA is smearing a young scientist because she researches climate change effects on birds [link]