by Judith Curry
A few things that have caught my eye these past several weeks.
Regional imprints of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [link]
A deadly summer in Africa [link]
**Abrupt Common Era hydroclimate shifts drive west Greenland ice cap change [link]
Emergence of representative signals for sudden stratospheric warmings [link]
Scientists now blame geothermal heat for melting Antarctic glaciers [link]
Large-scale atmospheric drivers of snowfall over Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica [link]
Confusion over ENSO and global warming: [link] [link] [link]
Constraining the date of a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean [link]
Contributions to Polar Amplification in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models [link]
Review of airborne transmission of respiratory viruses [link]
Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector [link]
Ambiguous stability of glaciers at bed peaks [link]
Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning [link]
**An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes [link]
Europe’s July Floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study [link]
**The anti-greenhouse effect: Antarctic radiative and temperature response to a doubling of CO2 [link]
**High tide floods and storm surges during atmospheric river events on the west coast [link]
Biomass burning smoke and its influence on clouds [link]
Pielke Jr: Catastrophes of the 21st Century [link]
Radiative feedbacks on land surface change and associated precipitation shifts [link]
Co-occurrence of California drought and northeast Pacific marine heatwaves under climate change [link]
Coral reef islands are growing [link]
**Earth’s energy imbalance from the ocean perspective [link]
**Arctic ocean stratification set by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age [link]
**’Recent Emergence of Arctic Amplification’ in the past century of the observational record. Using a large ensemble, we explore why Arctic Amplification didn’t occur for much of the past century [link]
** A simple explanation for declining phenological temperature sensitivity with warming [link]
**Lower peak for last interglacial ice melt and sea level rise [link]
Global-scale human impact on delta morphology has led to net land area gain [link]
Increasing probability of record shattering climate extremes [link]
**An evaluation of CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate models in simulating summer rainfall in the Southeast Asian monsoon domain [link]
The bushfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 were so intense they actually cooled temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere last year [link]
Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming [link]
Policy and technology
Farmers restore native grasslands as groundwater disappears [link]
Long duration energy storage: A blueprint for research and innovation [link]
MIT designed project achieves major advance towards fusion energy [link]
Australian startup is beating China to efficient and cheaper solar panels [link]
How Bangladesh transformed itself into a modern and resilient society [link]
Change of extreme snow events shaped the roof of traditional Chinese architecture in the past millennium [link]
Big carbon removal plant in Iceland [link]
Framing nature based solutions to climate change [link]
“Risk? Crisis? Emergency? Implications of the new climate emergency framing for governance and policy” [link]
Restoring coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico [link]
Major hurricanes can develop faster than cities can evacuate: we’re hitting the limits of hurricane preparedness [link]
Biden’s welcome hypocrisy on climate policy: The Paris Agreement has completely untethered the global climate discourse from actual policy-making.[link]
Economic development and declining vulnerability to climate-related disasters in China [link]
Cost of nonuniform climate policies [link]
The radical potential of nuclear fusion [link]
Federal regulators declare first-ever shortage on the Colorado River as water officials look toward a drier future. [link]
California’s NIMBY cities pushed millions of people into housing in fire hazard zones – and is now abandoning them. [link]
Advancing bipartisan decarbonization policies: lessons from state-level successes and failures [link]
Managing the political economy of limate change policies [link]
Wildfire burning is key to increasing biodiversity [link]
**Climate litigation has a big evidence gap [link]
Energy independence doesn’t mean what it used to [link]
A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change [link]
Western drought highlights the need for action to reduce wildfire risk [link]
Potential CO2 removing from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock [link]
Lomborg: Welfare in the 21st century: increasing development, reducing inequality the impat of climate change, and the cost of climate policies [link]
About science and scientists
**Ioannidis: How the pandemic is changing the norms of science.[link]
**Philospher Peter Boghossian resigns his faculty position: My university sacrificed ideas for ideology [link]
**Cancel culture in academia: The New Puritans [link]
**Dan Sarewitz: How good is science? [link]
The social science monoculture doubles down [link]
A postmodern inquisition: today’s activists closely resemble Gallileo’s inquisitors [link]
“water studies needs to confront the reality that it may be pursuing too many publications and not enough ideas” [link]
On scientists’ failure (refusal?) to acknowledge when they got it wrong. [link]
**Matt Ridley: How science lost the Public’s trust [link]
via Climate Etc.
September 11, 2021 at 11:01AM
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