by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
In the news
Hard to measure impact of melting ice when it doesn’t melt. AGW study on hold because of too much ice. [link] …
Greenland summer 2015 melt so far, explained @NSIDC [link]
Rapid climate change doomed mammoths rather than humans, study suggests [link]
Nuclear test 14C is almost completely gone from atmosphere [link]
Why this proves short CO2 lifetime: [link] …
“Abrupt [natural] climate change may have rocked the cradle of civilization” [link]
Scientists find active life 2.5 km beneath the sea floor [link]
Was the global warming pause a myth? David Rose examines the evidence: [link]
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway. [link]
X-Prize awarded for first accurate, reliable, &affordable ocean pH measurement technique [link]
New journal paper by Nick Stern on the economics of climate change since the Stern Review, commissioned 10 years ago: [link]
Tweet from Richard Betts :Interesting seminar by Dick Dee of @ECMWF today. In ERA-interim reanalysis, 2014 is *not* warmest year, due to relatively cooler Antarctica.
Study: wide-ranging species will have an edge in warming seas [link]
Scientists have just documented the big role planktons play in regulating the Earth’s climate [link]
Exciting progress! Researchers have moved one step closer to a one-dose malaria cure: [link]
New papers
Multi-millennial-scale solar activity and its influences on continental tropical climate: empirical evidence of recurrent cosmic and terrestrial patterns [link]
Improved stochastic physics schemes for global weather and climate models [link] …
New paper claims positive North Atlantic Oscillation occurs 2 years following large volcanic eruptions [link] …
Effects of volcanism on tropical variability [link]
New paper finds drought & aridity has decreased in US from 1893-2013 [link] Statistics – where words & numbers combine to create a fresh sort of hell! Statistically Funny [link] …
A new paper in JGR-A by Emanuel, Mann et al disagrees with Emanuel 2005 on hurricanes & clim chg [link]
Natural plankton aerosols ↑ summer “reflected solar radiation in excess of 10 W m–2 over parts of the Southern Ocean” [link]
“Local-To-Regional Landscape Drivers of Extreme Weather and Climate:Implications for Water Infrastructure Resilience [link] …
A 20 year decline in solar photospheric magnetic fields [link]
Another excuse for ‘the pause’ – it’s a ‘blip’ from volcanoes [link]
Ocean nutrient pathways associated with the passage of a storm [link]
New paper suggests Arctic sea ice may be more resilient to global warming than previously thought: [link]
New paper finds ocean floor microorganisms produce much more CO2 than previously thought [link] …
New paper: Warmer temperatures “counterbalance” decreased pH/”acidification”→no net effect on Arctic plankton strains [link]
Arctic and Antarctic Sea-Ice Area Index Records versus Measured and Modeled Temperature Data [link]
Impact of ocean acidification on structure of phytoplankton communities [link]
About science
Fascinating paper on peer review and physics in 1920s Britain [link]
NASA’s social media strategy is genius & kind of maddening for journalists. [link]
Climate skepticism and western conspiracies in China [link] I find this pretty interesting since CE has a very large following of Chinese and Chinese/American atmospheric scientists [link]
Former U.N. climate chief (Pachauri) ousted from Indian think tank [link]
Politicising Scientific Research: Meanings of responsible research in the University [link] …
Of relevance to possible/plausible: Quantifying probabilistic expressions [link]
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang [link]
Social networks are important source of agricultural knowledge [link]
“You can’t say that”. Mick Hume of @spikedonline on the ‘Reverse Voltaires’ [link]
24 UK professional & learned societies issue a “Climate Communique” on climate risks & opportunities ahead of @COP21: [link] …
Environmental journalists on climate change “still profess belief in objectivity even as they reject or redefine it” [link]
Self-proclaimed experts more vulnerable to the illusion of knowledge [link] …
Review: Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals [link]
What happens when machine learning and big data replace gut instinct and human decisions? [link]
JC NOTE: I am planning a post on Jim Hansen’s new paper, hope to have it posted sometime MondayFiled under: Week in review