by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
2016 Arctic Report Card Highlights Dramatic Changes in Region [link]
Hottest Arctic Hype: ‘Nothing is actually happening that justifies the apocalyptic headlines’ [link]
Desertification Effects, Causes, And Examples : Top 10 List [link]
Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica [link]
Find out which 2015 #ExtremeEvents were related to #climate in the new @ametsoc special bulletin. [link]
Climate change is starting to jam the world’s ocean circulation system [link]
Impact of #climatechange on agriculture may be underestimated [link]
Researchers dial in to ‘thermostat’ in Earth’s upper atmosphere [link]
Watts and Eschenbach presentation at AGU: Challenging climate sensitivity: ‘Observational Quantification of Water Vapor Radiative Forcing’ [link]
Bat Guano: A Possible New Source for Paleoclimate Reconstructions [link]
Researchers, #ski safety experts develop new tool that maps potential #avalanches. [link]
Mapping the Speed of Ice [link] …
ClimateChange Is Melting ‘The Roof Of The World’ – #Glacier Collapse [link]
Earth’s Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat, NASA Study Proposes [link] …
Why Space Exploration Represents the Best of Humanity -[link] …
Shrinking mountain glaciers are ‘categorical evidence’ of climate change [link] …
A new NASA project is tracking the movement of glaciers and ice sheets to show how fast they are melting [link]
From Morocco to Libya, the desert oases of the Saharan are disappearing as temperatures rise and rainfall decreases. [link]
Methane from food production might be the next wildcard in climate change [link] …
These conical ice mounds behave like mini artificial glaciers, slowly releasing water in the growing season [link]
Atmospheric levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, are spiking, scientists report [link]
Global and Full-depth Ocean Temperature Trends during the early 21st century [link] …
Positive Trend in the Antarctic Sea Ice Cover and Associated Changes in Surface Temperature [link] …
Interactions between land use change and carbon cycle feedbacks [link] …
Observed southern upper-ocean warming over 2005–2014 and associated mechanisms (open access) [link] …
Effective radiative forcing and climate response due to increased CH4 (open access) [link]…
Reconciling Theories for Human and Natural Attribution of Recent East Africa Drying [link] …
Indian Ocean might also be part of the story in the recent global warming hiatus [link] …
Narrowing range of future climate projections using historical observations of atmospheric CO2 [link] …
Ocean acidification lowers calcifying phytoplankton productivity-> positive feedback to climate? [link] …
Sea ice thickness and recent Arctic warming [link] …
US daily temperature records past, present, and future [link] …
Decade-long deep-ocean warming detected in the subtropical South Pacific [link]
Land Surface Temperature over Global Deserts: Means, Variability and Trends [link] …
Improved retrieval of land ice topography & volume-change estimation of Greenland Ice Sheet [link]
Correcting Urban Bias in Large-scale Temperature Records in China, 1980–2009 [link] …
Policy and social sciences
Will the Social Cost of Carbon be transformed into a Social Benefit of Carbon under Trump? [link] …
‘Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation’ [link] …
Impending collapse of the global warming scare? [link]
Factors influencing general public about taking protective action against severe weather [link] …
Climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, adaptation behavior of Midwestern U.S. crop farmers [link] …
About science
New chief editor at Science off to a nice start–> Science’s rightful place [link] …
Ecomodern Dispatches: Science Versus Politics [link] …
Fact Checking The Claim Of 97% Consensus On Anthropogenic Climate Change [link]
The right shuts down free speech, too [link]
On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors? [link]
“Plagiarism & other forms of intellectual theft are far more common in science than one would like to think” [link] …
Wonderful interview with Freeman Dyson! “My Life with the Physics Dream Team” [link]…
VICTIMHOOD CULTURE’S IMPACT ON ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND SCIENCE [link]Filed under: Week in review