by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Antartica’s ice melt has accelerated [link]
Upcoming research by Jay Zwalley will buck the consensus and show Antartica is still gaining ice [link]
Antarctica’s Ice May Be More Durable Than We Thought [link] …
Steve McIntyre: about 2.5 years ago, I did a thorough parsing of Antarctic ice mass loss, observing,that contribution of the glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA) was more or less equal to the reported ice mass loss and HUGE discrepancies in GIA [link] …
New study questions long-held assumption that surface melt in Antarctica is confined to summer | [link]
Large scale climate oscillation impacts on temperature, precipitation and land surface phenology in Central Asia (open access) [link]
Article on statistics of CO2, including cascading uncertainties [link] …
New paper by Craig Loehle: Disequilibrium and relaxation times for species responses to climate change [link] …
Ice core evidence for decoupling between mid-latitude atmospheric water cycle and Greenland temperature during the last deglaciation [link]…
Atmospheric Methane over the Past 2000 Years from a Sub-tropical Ice Core, Central Himalayas [link]
increasing precipitation whiplash in California, including analysis on the rising risk of an 1862-like flood: [link] …
Drought, Heat, and the Carbon Cycle: a Review [link]
“Pre-industrial T have been more variable than previously thought…currently used reference level [for preindustrial] represents end of the Little Ice Age, the coldest phase of the entire last 10,000 years” [link] …
Paper relating the internal variability of climate models to their sensitivity is out in this month’s Journal of Climate: [link]…
Temperature extremes in Alaska: temporal variability and circulation background [link]
Cycles in oceanic teleconnections and global temperature change [link]
On the Cause of Recent Variations in Lower Stratospheric Ozone [link]
Difference between the North Atlantic and Pacific meridional overturning circulation in response to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau [link]…
Predictability of the European heat and cold waves [link]
Now in NatureClimate – Perspective: Climate reddening increases the chance of critical transitions [link]
How the ice age shaped New York [link]
´Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers´ [link]
Atlantic-Pacific Asymmetry in Deep Water Formation [link]
The Effects of Younger Dryas Orbital Parameter and Atmospheric pCO2 Changes on Radiative Forcing and African Monsoonal Circulation [link] …
Model tropical Atlantic biases underpin diminished Pacific decadal variability [link]
A new angle on climate model uncertainty: changing the order in which different climate processes are computed can vary climate feedback parameter by half the full CMIP5 spread in climate feedback. [link]…
Hurricane Harvey Links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation (open access) [link]
Ocean Carbon Cycle Feedbacks Under Negative Emissions [link]
Decreasing Indian summer monsoon on the northern Indian sub-continent during the last 180 years: evidence from five tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotope chronologies [link] …
New paper on “radiative feedbacks from stochastic variability in surface temperature and radiative imbalance” [link]
An Energy Balance Model for Paleoclimate Transitions [link]…
A decade later, the most recent US AMOC Science Team report captures progress the community of researchers has made on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [link] …
“A multi-approach strategy in climate attribution studies: Is it possible to apply a robustness framework?” [link] …
Social science and policy
Nuclear power won’t survive without a government handout [link]
Pielke Jr: Scientists as both experts and political myth-makers [link] …
Massive climate funding by wealthy foundations [link]
Sucking CO2 from air is cheaper than thought [link]
Pirates and Climate Change: A Dispatch From the Bangladeshi Sundarbans [link] …
Economically robust protection against 21st century sea-level rise [link]
“Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise” [link] …
Philanthropy, group think and climate change [link]
About science and scientists
How a belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics [link]
Fellows of the Royal Geological Society push back over climate position [link]
Bret Stephens: They Dying Art of Disagreement [link]
Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan Myhrvold is back, and his papers have passed peer review. [link]
Questioning truth, reality and the role of science [link]