Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Background paper on detection and attribution in CMIP6 [link]

What’s missing from Antarctic ice sheet loss predictions? [link]

Vegetation and climate change in the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert based on repeat photography: Insights into climate trends https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196318302155

A critique of the insect alarm paper:  Alarmist by bad design [link]

Estimating the deep overturning at 26N in the Atlantic [link]

Was the Arctic Ocean ice free during the latest Cretaceous? The role of CO2 and gateway configurations https://buff.ly/2U3bcju

Early ECS results from CMIP6 models [link]  Punchline: values are coming in high

Underwater gliders provide unprecedented, daily data that reveal new insights into how #carbon gets from the atmosphere to the deep #ocean. [link]

How monsoons in Africa drove glacier growth in Europe [link]

Icelandic Glaciers are Expanding For the First Time in Decades. [link]

Spatiotemporal variations of extreme sea levels around the South China Sea: assessing the influence of tropical cyclones, monsoons and major climate modes [link]

South Asian perspective on temperature and rainfall extremes: A review https://buff.ly/2WhP16P

Orbitally Paced Carbon and Deep‐Sea Temperature Changes at the Peak of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum  https://agupubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/doi/full/10.1029/2018PA003422#.XJAyzQN46J8.twitter

Monsoon responses to climate change: past, present, future [link]

The cloud factor: improving estimates of climate sensitivity [link]

Discrepancies between satellite and global model estimates of land water [link]

A 192,000 year record of Northwest African fires [link]

What is under Greenland’s ice?  [link]

Plant and sediment properties in seagrass meadows from two Mediterranean CO2 vents: Implications for carbon storage capacity of acidified oceans https://buff.ly/2HuUOm2

El Niño weather patters are affecting the productivity of wind turbines by brining calm winds to the Midwest, reducing wind output by 14 percent [link]

creation of a new ‘observational’ dataset of GIA using GPS time-series [link]

Accounting for Several Infrared Radiation Processes in Climate Models https://buff.ly/2TNqokN

Recurrent synoptic-scale Rossby wave patterns and their effect on the persistence of cold and hot spells https://buff.ly/2FiTNLE

Review of Susan Crockford’s new book on polar bears [link]

Social science, technology & policy

Are we failing to acknowledge the limitations of climate change projections for informing policy and decision‐making? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.579

The growth of climate change misinformation in US philanthropy: evidence from natural language processing https://buff.ly/2HxmBCi

It’s time to rethink foreign aid initiatives [link]  Foreign aid hasn’t helped Africa develop, nor has it boosted democracy

Climate change mitigation options among farmers in Asia [link]

Burning trees as climate mitigation is a bad idea [link]

Sand from Greenland’s melting ice sheet could bring in business [link]

Complexity uncertainty and ambiguity: Implications for EU energy governance [link]

Revisioning the role for natural gas in a clean energy future [link]

Avoiding CO2 capture effort and cost for negative CO2 emissions using industrial waste in chemical-looping combustion/gasification of biomass [link]

About science & scientists

Scientists rise up against statistical significance [link]

The mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould [link]

Walter Munk [link]

How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology [link]
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Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research. [link]

via Climate Etc.

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March 23, 2019 at 05:49PM

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