by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Ocean temps predict U.S. heat waves 50 days out [link]
A tale of two blobs: very nice collection of essays from CLIVAR on the warm blob in the Pacific and the cold blob in the Atlantic [link]
Abandonment of composting hurts farmers w/out making food safer: [link]
Rise in record rainfall 1980-2010 globe up 12%; Europe up 31%; central NoAm up 24%; S.E Asia up 56%; 2015 study: [link]
Investigating #ClimateChange at Earth’s “Third Pole”: Ice cores reveal #Tibet’s #climhist of more than 500,000 years [link]
NASA study finds the arctic is changing, becoming greener [link]
“Elevated CO2 and Temperature Enhance the Grain Yield and Quality of Rice” [link]
Paleoclimate analysis of temperature and precipitation variations in the Himalsyas [link]
Roy Spencer: Another Potential Reason Why Climate Sensitivity to CO2 is Over-Estimated [link]
No significant increase in long-term CH4 emissions on North Slope of Alaska despite significant increase in air temperature [link]
Heterarchies: Reconciling Networks and Hierarchies [link]
NGeo: Hitherto unknown sources of sulfur dioxide pollution revealed in satellite inventory [link]
UKMO: Research provides new perspectives on recent changes in the Atlantic Ocean [link]
What caused the recent “Warm Arctic, Cold Continents” weather trend? [link]
USDA: Climate Data Tools For Informed Decisions [link]
New paper out Characterizing Arctic sea ice topography using high-resolution IceBridge data [link]
Irreducible uncertainty in near-term climate projections. Blog post; Climate Dynamics paper [link]
Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn’t warmed [link]
Extraordinary Greenland ice sheet runoff in 2012 was amplified by hypsometry and depleted snow meltwater retention [link]
Methods a #DataScientist needs in 2016 [link]
Tidal Troubles In The Mid-Atlantic. [link]
Pielke Jr: Catastrophes of the 21st Century [link]
AGU: Climate scientists as activists [link]
US Congress aims to cut climate science [link]
Mark Steyn: Trial of the Century update [link]
The latest academic witch hunters: feminists [link]
Kristof on academic left’s hypocrisy: “We welcome people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us.” [link]
New Yorker: Examining the new wave of activism on college campuses across the country: [link]
Filed under: Week in review