by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
In the news
Earth Has 3 Trillion Trees; Losing About 10 Billion Per Year, According to Yale Study [link]
NOAA: “Absolute Global Sea Level Rise Is Believed To Be 1.7 – 1.8 Millimeters/Year” [link]
New from @AGU_Eos: What have we learned 10 years after #HurricaneKatrina? [link]
Good piece by Peter Neilley on forecasting accuracy improvements since Katrina… [link]
Arctic news
Something you don’t see every Epoch: SE Alaska panhandle is in a hurricane forecast track. [link]
Danish Meteorological Institute Data Show Greenland ice mass balance has increased impressively Since 2014 [link]
The state of the Greenland ice sheet in 2015 | [link]
Good news: Ice sheets may be more resilient than thought, say Stanford scientists in Geology. [link]
Scientists: Greenland meltwater “increasing,” but admit they need a new technology to accurately measure meltwater [link] …
New papers
Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses [link]
Paper: Temperatures began rising 500 years ago due to increasing solar activity, [link]
Svensmark’s 2015 update on solar-cosmic ray theory of climate [link] …
New article by Willie Soon: Re-evaluating the role of solar variability on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since the 19th century [link]
“Emergent model for predicting the average surface temperature of rocky planets with diverse atmospheres” [link]
About science
Researchers find an unexpected link between brevity and popularity [link]
FabiusMaximus follow up on consensus kerfuffle with Rick Santorum and Politico [link]
Our brains are built for partisanship: [link]
Filed under: Week in review