by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Warming tropical #oceans could see ‘widespread and intense’ species loss
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“Vegetation regrowth only partly offsetting Amazon carbon loss ” [link]
Reproducibility will not cure what ails science: Nature News & Comment [link]
Spiegel Slams Sorrowful State Of Climate Science Communication! “Reports Hardly Trustworthy” …”Arrogant Scientists” [link] …
Brain Pickings:Richard Feynman on why a capacity for uncertainty is essential for being a decent human being [link]
Models predict unprecedented global warming to cause unprecedented cooling in Europe, Northern US [link]
New paper: “Rainfall consistently enhanced around the Gezira Scheme in East Africa due to man-made irrigation” [link]…
Why Climate Change Had No Impact on the Syrian Uprising [link]
New studies deepen concerns about a climate-change ‘wild card’ [link]
Lakes are only 3% of Earth surface, but bigger CO2 sink than all oceans combined. [link]
Great article by @Stephen_Curry on what’s wrong with peer review and how we should fix it. [link] …
Philosophical Transactions A Discussion meeting issue ‘Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models and impacts…’ [link] …
“cognitive ability is positively associated with both socially liberal beliefs and fiscally conservative beliefs” [link] …
The effects of tides on the water mass mixing and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean [link]
A strong #ElNino is here, and likely to last through winter and spring, @NOAA says [link]
Height of obs makes a difference “Observational evidence of temperature trends at two levels in the surface layer” [link] …
Southern Ocean carbon sink bounces back with renewed vigour, study says [link]
Ocean plants ‘can help freeze clouds’ [link]
New paper predicts “no clear trend of future wildfire emissions” [link]
Ocean acidification – what can we do about it? [link]
“Understanding requires simplification.” We need multiple models not more complex ones. [link]
Interesting article on sea level impacts on coral islands. [link]
.@nntaleb is right: genetic engineering could cause systemic ruin. So could nature, and it has [link]
Scientists: Burning all fossil fuels could melt all of Antarctica, raise seas nearly 200 feet [link]
New paper claims “Tree planting can harm ecosystems” [link] …
Multimillennial scale solar activity and its impact on tropical climate [link]
Steve McIntyre: Reviewed new OCEAN2K reconstruction . It’s not a Hockey Stick. [link]
Kevin Folta – Monsanto: Some clarity to the controversy. A fair, critical piece. [link] …
Cass Sunstein: Availability cascades (ebola is a recent example; several current political controversies too). [link]
Failure to reproduce results is ‘a normal part of how science works’ [link] …
WHUT on QBO and ENSO [link]
Plastic bags are good for you [link]
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