by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Several papers of fundamental importance:
*Important new paper by Peter Minnett: The response of the ocean thermal skin layer to variations in incident infrared radiation [link]
*A provocative paper with many implications: Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit [link]
*Does Surface Temperature Respond to or Determine Downwelling Longwave Radiation? [link]
*Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean [link] Synopsis [link]
Something new and interesting from Russian scientists. A new approach to local climate dynamics, integrating bifurcation analysis, control theory and climate theory. Start with Section 7 for an overview https://worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0218127419300131
Climate change is altering winter precipitation across the Northern Hemisphere [link]
The influence of weather regimes on European renewable energy production and demand. [link]
Hemispheric Asymmetry of Tropical Expansion Under CO2 Forcing [link]
How predictable were this summer’s European temperature records? [link]
New paleo proxy: The dawning of the age of old aquifers [link]
Changes in atmosphere, not sea ice, behind bizarre winter weather [link]
For years, scientists have tried to pinpoint which volcano caused a spell of global cooling in the 6th century A.D. They’ve finally found the culprit. https://nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/colossal-volcano-behind-mystery-global-cooling-found/…
Internal variability and regional climate trends in an observational large ensemble [link]
Good explainer from Zeke on RCP8.5 [link]
Antibiotics Are Flooding Earth’s Rivers.” [link]
new paper reports a 1500-year record of flooding from northwest Britain [link] Periods of frequent flooding lasting several decades are common
The North Pacific pacemaker effect on historical ENSO and its mechanisms [link]
A process study of thinning of Arctic winter cirrus clouds [link]
New Eocene pCO2 estimates from stomata https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/573071/Moderate-levels-of-Eocene-pCO2-indicated-by
Microplastics appear in considerable quantities in the #Arctic. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaax1157…
Stefan Rahstorf: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting and has probably passed the tipping point to its complete demise, causing a long-term sea-level rise of 3 meters. But is that our fault? That has long been unclear, but now a new paper in NatGeo finds: yes, it is. [link]
Prediction of Northern Hemisphere Regional Surface Temperatures Using Stratospheric Ozone Information [link]
A century of reduced ENSO variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly https://eartharxiv.org/yp49u/
Inducing Factors and Impacts of the October 2017 California Wildfires https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019EA000661
Understanding negative subtropical shallow cumulus cloud feedbacks [link]
Policy and technology
V. insightful: Climate change uncertainty from ‘above’ and from ‘below’: perspective from India [link]
Elizabeth Warren’s Green Manufacturing Plan for America [link]
Good overview on the Amazon fire issues [link]
Another good article on the Amazon fires [link]
A Harvard study found that increased wind power could mean more climate warming than would be caused by the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. [link]
Experts Say Sea Level Rise May Kill the 30-year Mortgage in Florida https://miamibeachtimes.com/real-estate/experts-say-sea-level-rise-may-kill-the-30-year-mortgage-in-florida/…
“The United States is the largest source of public funding for clean energy RD&D in absolute terms, investing about $6.8 billion, more than Japan, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom combined” [link] to report
Industry guidance touts untested technologies as climate fix [link]
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish? [link]
Why climate change is an existential threat to the Middle East [link]
World Bank: tradeoffs among climate policy instruments [link]
Costs for the U.S. to transition to 100% renewable energy [link]
Longterm macroeconomic effects of climate change [link]
Big wind’s big headwinds (challenges to wind energy) [link]
Recycling is in crisis. Could these innovations be the answer? [link]
How China is feeding its population. Major innovations [link]
About science and scientists
Must read: Upgrade your cargo cult for the win [link]
This is very interesting about Will Happer and Princeton scientists, and sociology of climate science: Princeton climate scientists tried to ignore a campus skeptic. Then he went to Washington [link]
V. interesting essay by Andrea Saltelli: A short comment on statistical vs mathematical modelling [link]
Sabine Hossenfelder: About peer review and its discontents [link]
Roy Spencer: How the Media Help to Destroy Rational Climate Debate – http://drroyspencer.com/2019/08/how-the-media-help-to-destroy-rational-climate-debate/
The twisted way educators are seeking diversity in education [link]
Is science political? The political history of science [link]
Yet another Professor has been fired for tweets, supporting Antifa [link]
“Academics respond to incentives like the rest of us. The moment they start to self-censor out of fear of social and professional ostracism, they cease to do their job properly.” https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2019/08/23/what-ive-learnt-about-controversy/
The shaping of science by ideology [link]
The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism. https://quillette.com/2019/08/15/the-bigotry-of-environmental-pessimism/
The Anthropocene is an idea that needs to go away [link]
via Climate Etc.
August 31, 2019 at 12:48PM
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