Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Abrupt sea level rise looms as an increasingly realistic threat [link]
Tim Palmer presentation: Climate Change, Chaos, and Inexact Computing [link]
Professor Anastasios Tsonis joins the GWPF [link]
Study: Turns out global warming won’t devastate the ocean [link]
Opinion in Nature:  Set up a public registry of competing interests [link]
Fascinating article about Joseph Weber:  “Science is a self-correcting process, but not necessarily in one’s own lifetime.” [link]
Study finds ice isn’t being lost from Greenland’s interior due to unique process [link] …
Increased Arctic sea ice volume after anomalously low melting in 2013 [link]
Melting ice is causing the Earth’s axis to shift direction [link]
Death Toll Rises As India’s Heat Wave Breaks Records  [link]
With Arctic Sea Ice Unusually Thin, Scientists Wary of Another Record Melt [link]
Feds Quietly Admit Polar Bears Doing Fine, Abandon Efforts To Ban Fur Trade [link]
Hurricanes key to carbon uptake by forests [link]
Earth’s energy imbalance and continental heat storage [link]
Mechanisms for low frequency variability of Arctic sea ice extent [link]
Effects of Arctic sea ice decline on weather and climate: a review [link]
Influence of sea ice loss on Arctic warming is shaped by temperatures in the Pacific Ocean [link]
Yale students fight college censorship the right way [link]
How to improve clarity in greenhouse gas emissions targets | by @piersforster and Myles Allen [link]
Antarctic ice shelf retreat may be irreversible [ link]
Randy Olson:  Jimmy Kimmel helps Climate Hustle [link]
Blair King on the Fort McMurray forest fire [link]
Steve McIntyre:  Gavin Schmidt’s histogram diagram doesn’t refute Christy [link]
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