Climate change impacts

by Judith Curry
Introduction and context for a new Climate Etc. series on sea level rise.

by Larry Kummer
We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported by science — except for the ones that are outright fabrications.

 
by Larry Kummer, originally posted at the Fabius Maximus website.
Another peer-reviewed paper predicting disaster from climate change by misrepresenting and exaggerating the science. We can still learn much from it.

by Rud Istvan
A novel hypothesis on the role of CO2 in the technological transition from hunter/gatherers to sedentary agriculture.

by David Hagen
Should California plan for permanent drought or climate persistence?

by Judith Curry
A major disconnect in the discourse surrounding climate change is interpretation of the ‘threat’ of climate change.

by Rud Istvan
There is no doubt that interglacials change sea level (SL). And that sea level rise (SLR) can be dramatic on millennial interglacial time scales.

by Judith Curry
Some new analyses are shedding some light on deficiencies in the approach to estimate the social cost of carbon.

by Judith Curry
We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning). Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend. – Zhu et al.

by Judith Curry
Frozen rivers, knee-deep snows, sleet, frigid temperatures, and other winter miseries helped shape the story of George Washington’s life.