by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week
In the news
Tapio Schneider’s new paper: climate change does not cause extreme winters [link]
“coral reefs in Palau defying the odds, showing none of the predicted responses to low pH except for an increase…” [link] …
Scientists are coming up with ‘last ditch’ remedies for climate change: [link]
“Researchers turn to the ocean to help unravel the mysteries of cloud formation | [link]
The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges [link]
“How Atmospheric Rivers Form” [link] …
Temperature
Victor Venema: Comparing the United States COOP stations with the US Climate Reference Network [link]
Paul Homewood: GISS Guessing Arctic Temperatures “Introduces Substantial Errors” [link]
Huge Divergence Between Latest UAH & HadCRUT4 Temperature Datasets [link] …
Polar regions
New paper provides more evidence of the “bipolar seesaw” theory of climate [link]
Scientists finally have an explanation for why huge lakes atop Greenland are vanishing [link]
Greenland melt season kicks off slowly in 2015; the new abnormal [link] …
Susan Crockford new Arctic Fallacy paper- Sea ice stability and the polar bear [link] …
Some news out today on a New Record, latest onset to Greenland melt season [link]
“A check on runaway lake drainage” in Greenland [link] …
New paper finds no evidence of weakened N Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (models predicted weakening) http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/12/1013/2015/
Last Call for Larsen B Ice Shelf [link]
Irreversible loss of world’s ice should spur leaders into action, say scientists | [link]
Climate models
New paper finds models over-simplify cloud structures, causing errors of radiative, dynamic, & hydrologic properties [link]
Isaac Held: “you can also err on the side of uncritical acceptance of model results…seduced by the beauty of the simulations” [link] …
Paleoclimate
New paper finds sea surface temperatures were warmer during Roman & Medieval Warm Periods [link] …
“A long-standing fact widely accepted among scientific community has been recently refuted, has major implications: formation of the Isthmus of Panama [link] …
New paper finds”Orbital control of late Miocene climate & North African Monsoon” but low CO2 sensitivity 280-400 ppm [link]
“removal of atm. CO2 by silicate weathering has been in approximate balance with CO2 degassing over past 600,000 yrs” [link] …
Climate change and health
CATO: Fatal Flaw in the USGCRP Climate and Health Assessment [link]
What’s the Biggest Killer in India: Heat, Cold or Rain? [link]
Math and Statistics
Role of statistics in the self-correcting nature of science. [link]
“The Difference Between ‘Significant’ and ‘Not Significant’ is not Itself Statistically Significant” [link] …
Does “mathiness” distort economic theory? [link]
Scientific misbehavior in economics [link] … “94% report having engaged in at least one unaccepted research practice”
Other new papers
In Australia, warmer temperatures cause more intense storms [link]
Stronger warming amplification over drier ecoregions observed since 1979 (open access) [link] …
New paper finds 20 yr decline of solar magnetic fields, predicts further weakening to 2020 & weaker next solar cycle [link]
Another new paper debunks the ‘dry gets drier, wet gets wetter’ meme [link]
Climate wars
The book Climate Change: The Facts is selling extremely well on amazon.com [link]
New book published: “A disgrace to the profession” biography & quotations on @MichaelEMann & his stick [link]
Mann vs Steyn: state of play [link]
Mark Steyn at Heartland: “Mann for breakfast” [link] …
“When climate change becomes personal: Attacks on skeptics do disservice to scientists & profession” [link]
Disney to lose $120-140 million on preachy, cli-fi/global warming movie “Tomorrowland” bomb [link] …
Merchants of Doubt: Secret donors gave US climate denial groups $125m over 3 years [link]
Filed under: Week in review