by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Background paper on detection and attribution in CMIP6 [link]
What’s missing from Antarctic ice sheet loss predictions? [link]
Vegetation and climate change in the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert based on repeat photography: Insights into climate trends https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196318302155
A critique of the insect alarm paper: Alarmist by bad design [link]
Estimating the deep overturning at 26N in the Atlantic [link]
Was the Arctic Ocean ice free during the latest Cretaceous? The role of CO2 and gateway configurations https://buff.ly/2U3bcju
Early ECS results from CMIP6 models [link] Punchline: values are coming in high
Underwater gliders provide unprecedented, daily data that reveal new insights into how #carbon gets from the atmosphere to the deep #ocean. [link]
How monsoons in Africa drove glacier growth in Europe [link]
Icelandic Glaciers are Expanding For the First Time in Decades. [link]
Spatiotemporal variations of extreme sea levels around the South China Sea: assessing the influence of tropical cyclones, monsoons and major climate modes [link]
South Asian perspective on temperature and rainfall extremes: A review https://buff.ly/2WhP16P
Orbitally Paced Carbon and Deep‐Sea Temperature Changes at the Peak of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum https://agupubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/doi/full/10.1029/2018PA003422#.XJAyzQN46J8.twitter
Monsoon responses to climate change: past, present, future [link]
The cloud factor: improving estimates of climate sensitivity [link]
Discrepancies between satellite and global model estimates of land water [link]
A 192,000 year record of Northwest African fires [link]
What is under Greenland’s ice? [link]
Plant and sediment properties in seagrass meadows from two Mediterranean CO2 vents: Implications for carbon storage capacity of acidified oceans https://buff.ly/2HuUOm2
El Niño weather patters are affecting the productivity of wind turbines by brining calm winds to the Midwest, reducing wind output by 14 percent [link]
creation of a new ‘observational’ dataset of GIA using GPS time-series [link]
Accounting for Several Infrared Radiation Processes in Climate Models https://buff.ly/2TNqokN
Recurrent synoptic-scale Rossby wave patterns and their effect on the persistence of cold and hot spells https://buff.ly/2FiTNLE
Review of Susan Crockford’s new book on polar bears [link]
Social science, technology & policy
Are we failing to acknowledge the limitations of climate change projections for informing policy and decision‐making? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.579
The growth of climate change misinformation in US philanthropy: evidence from natural language processing https://buff.ly/2HxmBCi
It’s time to rethink foreign aid initiatives [link] Foreign aid hasn’t helped Africa develop, nor has it boosted democracy
Climate change mitigation options among farmers in Asia [link]
Burning trees as climate mitigation is a bad idea [link]
Sand from Greenland’s melting ice sheet could bring in business [link]
Complexity uncertainty and ambiguity: Implications for EU energy governance [link]
Revisioning the role for natural gas in a clean energy future [link]
Avoiding CO2 capture effort and cost for negative CO2 emissions using industrial waste in chemical-looping combustion/gasification of biomass [link]
About science & scientists
Scientists rise up against statistical significance [link]
The mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould [link]
Walter Munk [link]
How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology [link]
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Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research. [link]