Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Good overview of latest research on what paleoclimate research tells us about droughts & floods in the western US. [link]
Evidence basis: No direct impact of #climatechange on international #migration. [link] …
Four more papers demonstrating solar-climate relationship [link]
30 different Arctic sea ice satellite measurement algorithms all hv different answers [link]
New paper: limits to the quantification of local change [link]
New paper finds “Slowing down of North Pacific climate variability” [link]
Low clouds suppress Arctic air formation and amplify high latitude winter warming [link] Hold the presses, my Ph.D. thesis showed the OPPOSITE [link]
Modeling fog and rain in the amazon [link]
New paper: Analysis of the 1930’s US Dust Bowl [link]  …
Oceanic phytoplankton contribute to ice formation in clouds [link]
New paper claims massive flooding of China’s Yellow River in 14 AD was caused by humans [link]
New papers on the impact of solar impact on climate [link]
Uncertainty propagation in climate model applications  [link]
Causal Feedbacks in Climate Change [link]
#Airpollution kills 3.3 million worldwide, may double: study [link]
Scientific American: Obama Seeks ‘Psychological Help’ with Climate Change [link]
Snowpack in Sierra Nevada mountains shrinks to 500-year low [link]
“Already 23 Papers Supporting Sun As Major Climate Factor In 2015 …Burgeoning Evidence No Longer Dismissible!”  [link]
Alexander von Humboldt:  Why is the man who predicted climate change forgotten? [link]
“2001-2014 pause in warming is unlikely to be..random natural variability in the context of an overall warming trend [link]  …
Cass Sunstein: Fifty shades of manipulation. [link]
New paper finds another solar amplification mechanism via stratospheric water vapor [link]
Thermosteric sea level rise estimates: “observational estimates of volumetric response of world’s oceans to temperature changes are sparse”  [link]
New paper finds water reservoirs are net source of “potent greenhouse gas” N2O [link]
Important new paper on Holocene natural climate variability [link]
Arctic sea ice minimum has been reached [link]
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