by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Decadal changes of the reflected solar radiation and the Earth’s energy imbalance [link] Over the 2000–2018 period the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) appears to have a downward trend of −0.16 ± 0.11 W/m2dec.
Links between tropical Pacific seasonal, interannual and orbital variability during the Holocene [link]
Mean total overland rainfall amounts associated with Hurricane Florence’s core were increased by 4.9 ± 4.6% with local maximum amounts experiencing increases of 3.8 ± 5.7% due to climate change. [link]
Mann-splaining away the AMO, PDO: Atlantic and Pacific oscillations lost in the noise [link]
A dynamical perspective on Atmospheric variability and its response to climate change [link]
Sensitivity of India’s climate to irrigation [link]
Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited [link]
Wintertime North American weather regimes and the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085592
Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather [link]
Quantifiying the effects of nutrient enrichment and freshwater mixing on coastal ocean acidification [link]
Reconstructing 150 million years of Arctic climate [link]
A new study indicates that major heat waves may be influenced as much by soil moisture as by atmospheric circulation [link]
Soil moisture information could improve assessments of wildfire probabilities and fuel conditions, resulting in better fire danger ratings. [link]
Policy & technology
Important essay from Eric Winsberg: War and Climate Change [link]
“Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon energy future” [link]
Comparing the annual waste produced by a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station [link]
Good discussion of coal use in steel making [link]
It bears repeating: renewables alone won’t end the climate crisis [link]
Scientists say they’ve figured out how to store solar power for decades, a major energy breakthrough [link]
The downside of solar energy: growing waste problem [link]
As planet warms, unusual crops could become climate saviours [link]
Booming oil and lower emissions: The decade that blew up energy predictions [link]
Pielke Jr: Hitting the climate reset button [link]
The rights and wrongs of central-bank greenery [link]
About science & scientists
Pielke Jr: How billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg corrupted climate science [link]
Nature: Scientific criticism must not be conflated with bullying. A toast to the error detectors [link]
via Climate Etc.
January 4, 2020 at 11:48AM
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