by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
In the news
The Sun Is Now Virtually Blank During The Weakest Solar Cycle In More Than A Century [link]
Seismologists cannot predict events such as #NepalEarthquake at short notice. But here’s what they can do: [link]
Human activity responsible for three out of four heat extremes, study finds [link]
Prolonged exposure to air pollution linked to brain damage, new study finds [link]
“UAH Release Version 6.0 – Confirms Cooling Trend Since 1998″ [link]
Prof Richard Muller: Not adjusting global temperature records would be “poor science” [link]
Polar regions
Gravity data show that Antarctic ice sheet is melting increasingly faster [link]
200-year lag between climate events in Greenland, Antarctica: Ocean involved [link]
Research: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Likely To Be Reversible [link]
PNAS: “Permafrost carbon−climate feedback sensitive to deep soil carbon decomposability but not deep soil nitrogen dynamics” [link]
Microbes play ‘villainous’ role in Arctic climate change [link]
Is there a quasi 60 year oscillation in Arctic sea ice extent? [parker arctic ice]
Carbon budget
Links between atmospheric CO2, the land carbon reservoir and climate over the past milennium [link]
Review of scientific literature finds positive effects outweigh negative for Mammals in a C02-Enriched & Warmer World [link]
Emissions from forests may be underestimated because estimates don’t fully account for dead wood from logging [link]
China contributed the most to a global increase in carbon stored in trees and other plants [link]
Climate dynamics
Interesting looking article here on precessional forcing of the Indian Ocean Dipole (Wang et al.): [link]
Easy to understand explanation of climate feedbacks [link]
Social sciences, history, philosophy
We simply can’t wait to declare a new epoch. Are we losing perspective in our rush to declare the Anthropocene? [link]
FitzRoy and the first weather forecasts at @BBCNewsMagazine [link] …
Brigitte Nerlich: Science as public and condensible knowledge [link] …Filed under: Week in review