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Week in review – science edition

Week in review – science edition

via Climate Etc.
https://judithcurry.com

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week

Researchers uncover a cause for early 20th century Arctic warming [link] JC note: basically, the stadium wave

Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1200 years [link]

Good discussion of the current sea ice melt season [link] .

Decades of spreading evergreen forest in Siberia has implications. [link]

Slowdown of Global Surface Air Temperature Increase and Acceleration of Ice Melting [link]

Reassessment of 20th century global mean sea level rise [link]

“strong correlation” between SLR & an ENSO Index [link].

Reconstructing the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC), an area of limited observations [link]

Why should we study the deep ocean? It’s a massive reservoir for heat & carbon [link]

Data defy notion that seas get fresher with more and saltier with more .  [link]

Different roles of dynamic and thermodynamic effects in enhanced semi-arid warming [link]

Model under-representation of decadal Pacific trade wind trends + link to tropical Atlantic bias [link]

A hiatus in the tropopause layer change [link]

Replicating Annual North Atlantic Hurricane Activity 1878-2012 from Environmental Variables [link]

Influence of regional Arctic sea ice extent on lagged snowfall in the contiguous United States [link]

We have some interesting new info on why Antarctica is the slower-warming pole [link]

Large anomalies in lower stratospheric water vapour and ice during the 2015–2016 El Niño [link]

Attribution of forced decadal climate change in coupled & uncoupled ocean-atmosphere models [link] 

Volcanic ‘geoengineering’ may have caused a catastrophe that killed most animal species [link]

Study: ‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities [link]

Arctic decadal variability in a warming world [link]

Black carbon emissions in Russia: A critical review [link]

New study shows South China Sea weakens N. Pacific flow features–enhancing variability over decades: [link]

Internal Variability in Simulated and Observed Tropical Tropospheric Temperature Trends [link]

Special issue of Deep-Sea Research devoted to the Antarctic Peninsula now published [link]

Causality of the drought in the southwestern United States based on observations [link]

Long-term trends in precipitation & pr. extremes + underlying mechanisms in US Great Basin [link]

Changing wet and dry seasons [link]

New paper by Richard Tol: Private benefit of carbon [link]

the ‘devastating environmental impacts’ of the manufacture of phones and wind turbines [link]

A Bayesian hierarchical model for climate-change detection and attribution [link]

Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analysis [link]

Sea Levels Are Stable To Falling At About Half Of The World’s Tide Gauges [link]

About Science

Why the climate debate is paralyzing free thinkers and undermining democracy [link]

Saltelli and Funtowicz:  What is science’s crisis really about? [link]

The crisis of expertise: its time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy [link]

“Scientists who made alarming forecasts thrived, those who didn’t were forced to seek greener pastures.” [link]

Is philosophy simply harder than science? (SPOILER: yes) [link]

When science is hijacked in pursuit of ideologically driven economic policies [link]

EMBO Reports with a hard-hitting commentary that takes on the climate thought-police in the science community–>[link]

Consensus science and peer review [link]

 

via Climate Etc. https://judithcurry.com

June 10, 2017 at 07:06AM

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