by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week
NSIDC 20 July: “Compared to 2012 at this time of yr, there is more ice in the S Beaufort Sea, Baffin Bay…” [link]
An animation showing “sea level fingerprints,” or patterns of rising and falling sea levels across the globe in response to changes in Earth’s gravitational and rotational fields [link]
Arctic Observation and Reanalysis Integrated System: A New Data Product for Validation and Climate Study [link]
XBT Science: Assessment of Instrumental Biases and Errors [link]
Connecting Climate Model Projections of Global Temperature Change with the Real World [link]
When does one alternative decision becomes better than the other? A #deepuncertainty approach [link] …
New paper finds climate models overestimate the effect of aerosols on clouds [link]
Shrinking Ozone Hole Leads To Cooling Antarctic Temperatures [link]
Observations show a long-term decrease in drought conditions over So. Great Plains. Climate models? Not so much. [link]
Antarctica is special – the signal of anthropogenic warming is relatively slow to emerge: [link]
“there appears to be nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about recent drought history” of SW China [link]
In Peru’s Andes, bitter cold devastates alpaca farmers [link]
Confronting Deep and Persistent Climate Uncertainty, [link]
Scientists look to desalination as a way to reduce conflict in the Middle East: [link]
Climate Change Advocacy: The Good, The Bad, The Dumb [link]
After warming fast, part of #Antarctica gets a chill (…but it probably won’t last) [link]
A new study maps the carbon storage of mangrove forests in Kenya [link]
This new data set is poised to revolutionize #climate adaption. [link]
Updated map of the human brain hailed as a scientific tour de force [link]
Predicting the export and fate of global ocean net primary production: The EXPORTS [link]
Official revisions to the Atlantic basin hurricane record for 1956-1960. 10 new tropical storms discovered [link]
Cows are worse than cars for the planet [link]
“Interaction between surface waves and the ocean’s underlying circulation isn’t so well understood” [link]
New paper finds multiple severe droughts in Belize over past 5000 years [link] …
Roy Spencer: A guide to understanding global temperatures [link]
Climate change could curb malaria risk [link]
“Long-awaited breakthrough in reconstruction of warm climate phases” from re-interpreting temp proxy data [link]
Steve McIntyre debunks Gergis et al. [link]
New paper finds low frequency El Nino/La Nina (ENSO) climate cycles lasting centuries [link] [link]
La Niña outlook less likely as key indicators settle down toward neutral conditions. But still a “wait and see” game [link]
New Paper: China temperatures warmer during the 1700s, linked to solar, volcanic, and AMO/PDO forcing [link]
Projected changes in western U.S. large-scale summer synoptic circulations and variability in CMIP5 models [link]
High temperatures, ‘corn sweat’ form dangerous heat dome over U.S. [link]
The US coastline has been calm so far this year, so where are the hurricanes? [link]
The changing shape of NH summer temperature distributions [link]
Interesting *lack* of a big methane signal from warming Alaskan tundra. [link]
A significant drop in insect populations could have far-reaching consequences. [link]
Drought caused the Amazon to stop storing carbon. [link]
Large-scale reforestation could lead to slight reduction in global warming [link]
Pollution From Humanity Keeps Tropical Cyclones At Bay [link]
A different approach. Estimating trends in the global mean temperature record. [link]
Warmer oceans driving Antarctic Peninsula glacier melt [link]
Excellent, easy to read piece on the mystery of Evaporation [link]
New paper finds Arctic sea level rise is only 1.5mm/yr, almost same as global 1.8mm/yr or 7 inches per century [link] …
The severe weather of 1816 was mostly a local circulation change, attributable to the Tambora eruption: [link]
Storm tracks are shifting from Earth’s mid-latitudes towards its poles [link]
California Drought, Marine Heat More Likely With Warming [link]
“Social system tipping points can worsen or reduce the impacts of climate change.” [link]
Bad science:Why it took social science years to correct simple error about psychoticism in liberals vs conservatives [link]
Superb documentary on the intolerance and insanity at Brown University [link]
David Legates: College students are learning advocacy, not climate science [link]
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