by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye these past few weeks
Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer [link]
Quantifying CO2 emissions from rivers and streams [link]
Arctic autumn warming since 2002 dominated by changes in large scale atmospheric circulations [link]
Tropical extreme droughts drive long-term increases in atmospheric CO2 growth rate variability [link]
the vertical structure of the Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) and how it varies around the continent and in time [link]
Early Holocene’s Baltic Sea Temperatures Were 5-11°C WARMER THAN PRESENT. [link]
The perspective from space unlocks the amazon water cycle [link]
Amazon rainforest tipping point is looming [link]
The seasonality of oceanic carbon cycling [link]
Unraveling forced responses of extreme El Nino to external forcing over the Holocene [link]
Antarctica has a huge mantle plume beneath it, which might explain why its ice sheet is so unstable: [link]
how anthropogenic aerosols caused a multi-decadal weakening of the Eurasian summer westerly jet [link]
Higher sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean during the last interglacial weakened the South Asian monsoon [link]
The evolution of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since 1980 [link]
Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century [link]
This is very interesting: Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World [link]
Tropical teleconnection impacts on #Antarctic climate changes [link]
Long-range prediction and the stratosphere [link]
Observed poleward freshwater transport since 1970 [link]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04370-w
The young earth under the cool sun [link]
Wildfires boost runoff in heavily burned forest basins in the western United States and may affect scarce water resources in western US [link]
Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate-social system [link]
Maybe Mars and Earth didn’t form close to each other [link]
The 20th Century instrumental record of drought is not ‘normal’ for Australia. Antarctic ice cores reveal Australian drought risk worse than thought [link]
Ocean acidification not a problem for fish behavior [link]
The role of atmospheric circulation patterns in attribution of extreme weather events [link]
The enormous hole that whaling left behind [link]
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies remove & sequester carbon from the atmosphere. A new report assesses the benefits, risks, and potential for responsible scale-up of six specific ocean-based CDR strategies. http://ow.ly/G6k550H6nCU
NOAA’s new sea level rise projections for the U.S. are lower than previous [link]
Enigma of expanding Antarctic sea ice [link]
How climate scenarios lost tough with reality [link]
Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the 21st century [link]
“Sea-ice retreat suggests re-organization of water mass transformation in the Nordic and Barents Seas” https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27641-6…
Earth’s melting glaciers contain less ice than previously thought [link]
‘interannual Arctic sea ice variations account for less than 10% of the interannual variations in NAO and SPV, and are thus unlikely to drive large seasonal mean impacts in individual winters’ [link]
Climate change (cooling) is bad for epidemics [link]
Policy and technology
U.S. push to export more LNG amid Ukraine crisis slowed by climate concerns [link]
The value of energy security [link]
We’re not facing a global food crisis [link]
India’s wheat exports surge as world prices soar [link]
Designing the mid‐transition: A review of medium‐term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the United States [link]
Rural backlash against renewables [link]
The transition to clean energy is accelerating [link]
Small is beautiful – climate change science as if people mattered [link]
How much nuclear energy would be needed to replace European natural gas? [link]
What Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for energy and climate policies? [link]
The renewable energy policy paradox: [link]
Why avoiding climate change maladaptation is vital [link]
Florida House passes bill to establish climate change resiliency [link]
War in Ukraine: We need to talk about fossil fuels ]link]
Eastern Europe and Russia – The economic disaster we created is forgotten [link]
US corn-based ethanol is worse for the climate than gasoline [link]
The quest for resilience – what could possibly go wrong? [link]
The divergent fates of two community mini-grids in Nigeria illustrate why energy systems should be built to enable economic transformation. [link]
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission cancels previously issued license renewals because of climate change considerations [link]
How to model society’s response to climate change [link]
Green investments [link]
New strategies for resilient water utilities in Sub Saharan Africa [link]
Scientists developed transparent solar cells that can be used in windows and last for 30 years: [link]
New York City is rolling out a new batch of climate resiliency plans to shore up 520 miles of coastline affecting more than 8 million residents, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest infrastructure projects in New York’s history. [link]
“[I]f judgments are made under uncertainty, and the costs of false positive and false negative errors have been asymmetric over evolutionary history, selection should have favored a bias toward making the least costly error.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_3…
Nuclear options https://politi.co/33zt4cC
World Bank experts on Central Asia’s looming water crisis – The Third Pole http://dlvr.it/SK3KKl
The global land squeeze [link]
Designing mid-transition: A review of medium-term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the U.S. [https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.768
The rise of Greenflation [link]
Its not just climate: Are we ignoring other causes of disasters? [link]
About science and scientists
Trust in science versus trust in scientists [link]
Speaking truth to power and power to truth: reflections from the Covid pandemic [link]
I signed up for journalism. What they taught me was activism. [link]
Changing the intellectual climate [link]
Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity [link]
Science has a confidence deficit [link]
Why do scientists lie? [link]
How to save science from Covid Politics [link]Climate change enters the therapy room [link]
Rethinking the search for origins of life [link]
via Climate Etc.
March 12, 2022 at 06:24PM
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