by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Steve McIntyre on making cherry pie with the paleoclimate reconstructions [link] …
Bolivia’s 2nd largest lake has dried out. Can it be saved? [link]
The staggering economic cost of air pollution [link]
Cliff Mass: Europeans shine in weather forecasting [link]
Study suggests a sea level climate feedback loop in the mid-ocean ridge system regulates ice ages [link]
Widespread water ice on #Pluto. New data from LEISA shows more than previously thought. [link]
Not so fast with this geoengineering idea- fertilizing oceans could be zero-sum game [link]
Air pollution not just damaging health but changing global rainfall [link]
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan paper does a very good job of describing numerical weather prediction data assimilation and the creation of reanalysis data set [link]
NassimNicholasTaleb explanation of the flaw of “averaging” under nonlinear responses and why much of psychology doesn’t generalize. [link]
Now in NatureClimate – Review: Fifteen years of ocean obs with the global Argo array [link]. Since 2005 “global warming” mostly confined to 60°S-20°S
Ed Hawkins: Comparing CMIP5 & observations – update with 2015 global temperatures [link] …
Cold Shock Claims Dozens Of Lives In Tropical Asia Record Lows…”Snow First Time In Their Lives!” [link]
El Niño Won’t Fill Up California’s Critical Groundwater Reservoirs – The Equation: [link]
Global deforestation is decreasing. Or is it? [link]
Researchers discover surprising waves in Antarctic atmosphere [link]
Warmer oceans could produce more powerful superstorms [link]
New paper finds base of marine food chain has increased 10X over past 45 years, thanks to CO2 fertilization [link]
Ocean circulation changes may have killed cold-water corals [link]Holy cow: The incredible tale of irresponsible chocolate milk research at the University of Maryland [link]
Q&A: How scientists link extreme weather to climate change – with Myles Allen & @FrediOtto [link]
Bob Tisdale: On the monumental differences in warming rates between global sea surface temperature datasets during 2000-2014 [link]
Uncertainties in tree-ring based climate reconstructions probed [link]
Good overview: Fact checking Mark Carney’s climate claims [link]
Filed under: Week in review