by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
New Yorker: How not to debate nuclear energy and climate change – response to Oreskes [link] …
Could Cleaner Air Be Worsening Global Warming?[link]
New paper: Models exaggerate temperatures of stratosphere by a huge 3-5C due to solar zenith angle assumptions [link]
“Greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater higher than thought” [link] …
“East Antarctic Ice Sheet has stayed frozen for 14 million years” [link]
UKMO: Global mean temperature forecast expects 2016 to be among the warmest years [link]…
Tiny phytoplankton have big influence on climate change [link]
Centuries of Melting Already Locked in for Polar Ice, Scientists Say [link]
New paper finds natural variability of stratosphere affects El Niño teleconnections [link]
Study: Elite scientists can hold back science [link] …
Climate researchers employ tool from 1800s: Whaling logs [link]
We may have solved one of the most troubling mysteries about sea-level rise [link]
Causation vs Correlation: Most get this wrong. [link]
NASA GISS: I’m sorry but climate sensitivity might be higher than we thought
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NCAR scientists predict that Arctic sea ice loss will slow over next few years [link] …
New #NASA study data suggest we have overestimated #carbon stored in #forests – [link]
Climate change found to increase rain from storms like Desmond [link]
Complexity and the failure of quantitative social science [link]
NASA instrument documents the contraction of the Earth’s ionosphere [link]
CO2 diffusion in polar ice [link]
El Nino update from NOAA [link]
US town rejects solar power, because it would suck up all the sunlight [link]Filed under: Week in review