Week in review – science edition

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

New paper finds sea levels rising at only 1.7 mm/yr or 6.7 inches per century
[link] …
New published paper by Chris Landsea about forecasting the size of tropical storms and hurricanes. [link]
background on #IPCC 1.5º report [link] and doc for decision makers [link]
Aquatic Plants May Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions [link]
xes http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X16308662
Papers Link Solar Activity, Natural Ocean Cycles To Climate, Warmer Temps During 1700s/1800s [link]…
Why that new study in PNAS does not undercut any “myths” about CO2 and its effect on plant health [link]
Scientists may have solved a key riddle about Antarctica — and you’re not going to like the answer [link]
Feeling the Pulse of the Stratosphere: An Emerging Opportunity for Predicting Continental-Scale Cold-Air Outbreaks 1 Month in Advance [link]
Are rising sea temps & added freshwater from melting ice altering the ocean conveyor belt? [link]
Fascinating story on the debate over use of genetically altered mosquitos to combat diseases like Zika or Dengue [link]
How random is your randomness, and why does it matter? [link]
Climate change not forcing polar bears to hunt humans but lack of baby seals might [link] …
Extreme-weather winters becoming more common in US: Western heat, Eastern cold snaps [link]
First order role of land use change on climate – more evidence -[link] …
About science
The natural selection of bad science [link]
How Climate Alarm Becomes a Self-promulgating Collective Belief [link]
New book:  No need for geniuses: revolutionary science in the age of the guillotine [link]…
Lew and Cook: The Alice in Wonderland mechanics of climate denial: [link] …
Lew/Cook skewered [link] [link]
Ioannidis: “The mass production of redundant, misleading, and conflicted systematic reviews and meta-analyses”  [link]
Is the role of climate scientists to spread optimism or provide critical analysis (even if politically unwelcome)? [link]
Stuff my reviewers say [link]
Andrea Saltelli – Climate numbers and climate wars: a fatal attraction? [link]
Jeroen van der Sluijs: Climate change, the uncertainty monster & post normal science [link]
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