by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
The Antarctic 2016 sea ice anomalies [link] …
Chill: Antarctic ice is NOT rapidly melting experts say as logbooks from 100 years ago show levels unchanged [link]
Chilling climate revelations from the last ice age … and what they mean for #climatechange today [link] …
Elizabeth Barnes & James Screen have good opinion article on whether Arctic ice loss is/will affecting mid-lat jet [link] …
Climate change makes sea levels fall, not rise, new NASA study shows [link]
While the North Pole warms beyond the melting point, it’s freakishly cold in Siberia [link]
The influence of declining sea ice on shipping activity in the Canadian Arctic [link] …
Accelerated ice shelf rifting and retreat at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica [link] …
The global warming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution? [link] …
Did European temperatures in 1540 exceed present-day records? (open access) [link] …
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution. Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended. [link]
Now in NatureClimate – Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands [link]
Climate change could thwart the Earth-cooling effects of volcanic eruptions [link]
Rapid variations in deep ocean temperature detected in the Holocene [link] …
IPCC Doesn’t Account for 1 Billion Tons of CO2 Absorbed Annually… by Cement” [link]
Possible positive feedback between climate and volcanic aerosol forcing [link]
Warming of subarctic tundra increases emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide [link]
Policy and social sciences
Economists agree: economic models underestimate climate change [link]
Climate Change, the U.S. Military, and “the Intersection of Politics and Events,” [link]
Protected forests felled to meet EU renewable targets [link]
Lomborg to Trump: dump the Paris agreement, to an innovation-based green energy approach that harnesses US ingenuity [link]
Brussels is moving to fix its broken biofuels policy. Washington should follow its example. [link]
A note on the perverse effects of actively open-minded thinking on climate-change polarization [link]
About science and scientists
Climategate flashback [link]
Has dogma derailed the scientific search for dark matter? [link]
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? [link] …
Manufactured level of doubt on hormone disruptors out of proportion to scientific disagreement [link]
The convenience of ambiguity. “The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb” [link]…
3 Kickass Women Leading the Fight on Climate Change. Featuring moi (with a shoutout to my dogs Bruno and Rosie). [link]
The Rebel Economist Who Blew Up Macroeconomics [link]
Dead or alive: medicine wants your parts [link]
George Will: Did academia help elect Donald Trump? [link]Filed under: Week in review