by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
New paper: Unreliable climate simulations overestimate attributable risk of extreme weather and climate events [link]
New blog post from Isaac Held: Clouds are hard [link] …
Doug Hoffman: Another little ice age discovered [link]
Tom Hartsfield challenges the ‘religion’ of climate modeling [link] …
Mitigation of Coral Reef Warming Across the Central Pacific by the Equatorial Undercurrent [link]
Are massive tree farms bad for climate change? @NatGeo explores their effects of GHG emissions. [link]
New paper documents important role of land use change as first order climate forcing – [link]
How to better quantify snow water equivalent from space? [link]
World’s #CarbonBudget Is Only Half as Big as Thought [link]
Peter Gleick on Arctic warming: Rapidly increasing temperatures are ‘possibly catastrophic’ for planet [link]
The causes of rapid night-time warming [link]
Lord Stern ‘Economics: Current climate models are grossly misleading.’ [link]
Fewer tropical cyclones form after volcanic eruptions [link]
Scientists develop faster way of pulling water vapour out of the air [link]…
New paper by @KenCaldeira group on coral reef calcification recovery after ocean acidification reversal [link]…
Mark Cane: No evidence for ocean circulation driving the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO): [link]
The Greenland ice sheet is growing thicker in the interior, while melting at its edges [link]
NatureClimate – Comment ‘Keeping the lights on for global ocean salinity observation’ [link]
Dubai construction alters local climate [link]
These tiny creatures could cause huge trouble in the Arctic [link]
Drones and tethered balloons give 3D data on evolving Arctic atmosphere [link]
Paul Homewood:How The Arctic Climate Has Changed Since The MWP [link] …
Warming oceans could mean typhoons are 14% stronger by 2100, study says [link]
Untangling the complex science on tropical storms & climate change [link]
The 60-Year Oscillation Of Arctic Sea Ice Extent [link]
Another “blob” of warm ocean water discovered, this one ancient [link]
New in Reviews of Geophysics: Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?[link]
“New Findings Show Sun, Natural Factors Linked To Sudden Climate Change, Famine, And European Social Collapse” [link] …
Evidence for link between modeled trends in Antarctic sea ice and underestimated westerly wind changes [link]
Rising CO2 Levels Are Likely Cause Of Global Dryland Greening [link]
Ice streams waned as ice sheets shrank [link]
In 2015 Alone Massive 250 Peer-Reviewed Papers! Doubt AGW [link]
2016: Already 50 New Peer-Reviewed Papers Refuting Alarmist CO2 Science …Nat. Cycles Indisputable! [link]
Consequences of policy for multi-millennial climate & sea-level change [link]
A new chemotherapy approach – fighting cancer to a draw instead of going for the outright win: [link]
The (Political) Science of Salt by Gary Taubes [link]
About science and scientists
BRAVO: Let’s stop trying to minimize uncertainty in #climatechange studies, say scientists. [link]
Pierrehumbert: Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny [link]
Climate memoir “MyClimateChange”by @Revkin [link]
Among climate scientists, a clear consensus that the climate science gravy train should roll on [link]
The IPCC further tortures climate scientists. If driven by scientific curiosity, we would probably not work towards a 1.5C Special Report now, says Jim Skea #IPCC [link]
The role of psychology in supporting progress on the climate. [link]
UK “restrictions on research grants will have an immensely damaging impact on … fighting climate change.” [link]
Do the natural sciences need a justification? No. Curiosity, wonder and beauty are enough. NYTimes [link]
Some interesting papers in Evidence & Policy: Don’t miss our 10 free articles – the most read of 2015 – to read during February: [link]
‘US children are currently being presented w a false debate. This needs 2 end’ [link]
F*cking good article: Where does swearing get its power and how should we use it [link]
Filed under: Week in review