by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Deep-reaching acceleration o global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaax7727
Predominant regional biophysical cooling from recent land cover changes in Europe https://nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14890-0
Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change? |http://j.mp/2HZAoQh
The incredible lightness of water vapor. A negative water vapor feedback [link]
Towards better understanding of the Ocean Carbon sink of the Southern Ocean [link]
Compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale https://bit.ly/32xrOBE
Natural halogens buffer tropospheric ozone in a changing climate https://go.nature.com/2w6CVWg
On a regional level, aerosols could have a greater effect on extreme winter weather than greenhouse gases. [link]
The observed behavior of climatic complexity could be explained by the changes in cloud amount, and we research that possibility by investigating its evolution from a complexity perspective using data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP). [link]
Tropical forests losing their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere [link]
reconstruction and re-evaluation of historical drought in the British Irish Isles since 1748, and the forgotten drought of 1765-1768. [link]
Geologic Heat Linked To East Coast Ocean Warming Trend [link]
Evaluating global multi-model ensemble tropical cyclone track probability forecasts (https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3712)
Rapid Loss of CO2 From the South Pacific Ocean During the Last Glacial Termination [link]
Jet stream is not getting ‘wavier’ despite Arctic warming [link]
Mathematicians unravel the patterned chaos of turbulence in a universal law [link]
30 years of the iron hypothesis of ice ages [link]
destabilizing natural methane reserves is not a big climate risk, because the timescales are long and most gets oxidized before reaching the atmosphere. [link]
Decades of research have deepened scientists’ understanding of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its importance in Earth’s #climate system. [link]
Soil and soil CO2 magnify greenhouse effect [link]
Reviews and syntheses: The mechanisms underlying carbon storage in soil https://biogeosciences-discuss.net/bg-2020-49/
It turns out our estimates of how much methane comes from natural fossil leaks (seepage, mud volcanoes, etc.) might be much lower than we thought. [link]
Long-term drought reconstruction in India [link]
aerosol-induced cooling benefitted developing countries in warm climates in terms of economic impact, but harmed high-latitude developed countries. https://go.nature.com/2P4ThVY
New evidence points to asteroid as cause of dinosaur extinction [link]
Climate models overestimate Arctic warming [link]
Policy & technology
Floridians would have been spared $480 million in property damage from Hurricane Irma if the state’s coastal wetlands hadn’t shrunk. [link]
Roger Pielke Jr: “Good News And Bad News As Carbon Dioxide Emissions Grow More Slowly Than Models Predict” [link]
A big shift from corporate data centers to cloud computing seems to have dramatically reduced the energy and carbon footprint of data processing [link]
How economic models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages [link]
Ships could be powered by ammonia within decade [link]
Seven strategies for protecting rainforests [link]
“IPCC baseline scenarios over-project CO2 emissions and economic growth.” https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ahsxw
The coming avocado politics: Embracing a catastrophic view of climate risk is unlikely to provoke progressive responses on the Right, but rather the opposite [link]
Minireservoirs could save farmers with sandy soils [link]
“Sequestering soil carbon effectively requires an understanding of how particulate organic matter & mineral-associated organic matter work, how human actions affect them, and how to build up both types to meet our planet’s climate and food security needs.” https://theconversation.com/soil-carbon-is-a-valuable-resource-but-all-soil-carbon-is-not-created-equal-129175
Damaging impact of warming moderated by migration of rainfed crops [link]
The next low-carbon energy source? It might be trash [link]
Why Venice is actually a textbook case for flood prevention https://phys.org/news/2020-01-venice-textbook-case.html…
explore scenario extremes as a way of understanding and preparing for an unknowable future: https://rdcu.be/b1OcE
The ‘business as usual’ story is misleading [link]
Schellenberger: If they are so alarmed by climate change, why are they so opposed to nuclear? [link]
Forecasting volcanic eruptions with Artificial Intelligence [link]
Small changes in flight routes and altitude could get rid of most of the climatic impacts of contrails immediately. [link]
About science & scientists
Freeman Dyson: In Memoriam [link]
Tired of debates that go nowhere? Talk different [link]
Trump might do something genuinely good for science [link]
Why do the things that are unlikely to harm us get the most attention? [link]
Moral pollution in place of reasoned critique [link]
The scientific paper is outdated. [link]
Another unjustified firing of a tenure-track professor [link]
Back to the future: how we became victims of our own success [link]
Scientists are much more open but less agreeable than people in other professions. [link]
What is dark matter? Even the best theories are crumbling [link]
via Climate Etc.
March 7, 2020 at 09:05AM
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