by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Check out Nature Geoscience’s focus on the permafrost carbon-climate feedback [link]
New paper finds Africa has become wetter over past 1.3 million years -instead of drier as was thought previously. [link]
More precipitation extremes in the world’s dry regions? A statistical artifact [link]
Arctic sea ice break-up starting 5–7 days earlier per decade in Chukchi & Beaufort Seas [link]
NASA Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth [link]
Can melting of frozen methane explain rapid climate change 56 million years ago? [link]
Pacific sea level tilt predicts global temperature changes, new research [link]
Sea ice is making the Southern Ocean less salty, and what that might mean for the rest of the world [link]
How #airpollution is causing the world’s ‘Third Pole’, the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountains, to melt [link]
Subterranean Caverns Hold Clues to Past Droughts [link]
Plants found to regulate leaf temperature to boost carbon (dioxide) uptake” [link]
As permafrost thaws, trees grow faster in Alpine Tibetan forests [link]
New paper finds IPCC models “have large deficiencies in ENSO amplitude, spatial structure and temporal variability.” [link] …
Incorporating 3-D Cloud Effects into Weather and Climate Models [link]
NASA: These images show the complicated patterns of rising and falling ocean levels across the globe from 1993 to 2015. [link]
Great @capitalweather story about our newest weather satellite, GOES-R: (written by Angela Fritz, former MS student of JC) [link]
Nice review of the state of air capture of CO2, still in its infancy[link]
Abandon hype in climate models. The economic models that are used to inform climate policy currently contain an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking. [link]
The Anthropocene doesn’t have to be bad for the environment research shows [link]
“Plants less thirsty as climate warms: study” [link]
Good article: “How Does the Ocean Drive Weather and Climate Extremes?”
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“Plausible that the sea ice cover was reduced compared to present day pre-industrial conditions” 10000-6000 yrs ago [link]
Arctic sea ice – is this water warming? [link]
Fascinating: In the early 14th century, the Little Ice Age came to Europe. Discover a new project on its first decades: [link]
About science
Why facts don’t unify us [link]
Stop using the word ‘pseudoscience’ [link]
Stop ignoring misconduct [link]
Unscientific consensus. Statements of scientific consensus are only valuable, and scientific, if they are explained clearly to the public. [link]
Uncertainty in the era of precision medicine [link]
Uncertainty monster: climate adaptation decisions @Jeroen_vdSluijs
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Some challenging realities of climate science for adaptation decision making [link] …
Great interview with @stewartbrand, the “prophet for the modern environmental movement” [link]
“New Scientist” devotes an issue to the relevance of metaphysics to natural science… [link]
And the debate goes on: when and how to believe the experts [link]
Peter Gluckman: ‘the place of scientific evidence in policy making is neither straight ford nor guaranteed’ [link]
Should we embrace failure in science more? [link]
Why do scientists commit misconduct? [link] …
Filed under: Week in review