Week in review – science edition

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

Scientists sayGreenland just opened up a major new floodgate of ice into the ocean [link]
Is the Antarctic losing or gaining ice?  [link]
Ocean acidification means jellyfishification [link]
Soil microbes may be able to help plants cope with #climate stress. [link]
NASA found a way to track ocean currents from space. What they saw is troubling [link]
This company is using bumblebees to deliver organic pesticides to crops. More precise than spraying: [link]
#China: Air Pollution Cutting Surface #Solar Radiation, With Major Consequences For #Climate [link]
Beyond consensus: reflections from a democratic perspective on interaction between climate politics & science [link]
New paper finds “no detectable signal of the Arctic sea ice approaching a local bifurcation [tipping point].” [link]
OCO-2 – Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 – the mission has released an animation [link]
Scientists research deep-sea hydrothermal vents, find carbon-removing properties | [link]…
.@NatureNews explains a new paper on how Antarctic coast meltdown could trigger ice-sheet collapse [link]
Why the Pacific Ocean is so unusually warm right now (and causing all sorts of havoc): [link] …
Climate Models as Economic Guides: Scientific Challenge or Quixotic Quest? | Issues in Science and Technology [link]
Everything you know about ocean acidification may be wrong [link] …
Deadly CO2 pollution could be captured with artificial trees, then “concentrated to carbonate fizzy drinks”[link]
New paper confirms “phenomenon of global dimming & brightening over India” [link] …
New paper finds Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico “is a major source of CO2 into the atmosphere”  [link]
Revoking: On Plankton, Warming and Whiplash. Handling science uncertainty when it really, really matters [link]
How competitive should science be? External reward structure may inhibit creative thinking and innovation. [link]
The Nation: Cold Sun Rising [link] …
Deep ocean: Climate change’s fingerprint on this forgotten realm [link]
CLIVAR-ICTP Workshop on Decadal Variability and Predictability: Join the talks remotely on 16-24 Nov. :[link]
World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer:  [link]  @ArthurNeslen reports on Pacific plastic cleanup efforts
Study: Increased deforestation could reduce Amazon basin rainfall [link] …
Study: Declining snowpack may cut many nations’ water [link]
The secrets in Greenland’s ice sheets [link]Filed under: Week in review

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