by Judith Curry
Few things have intrigued me over the past few weeks.
Regional Impressions of Changes in the Atlantic Meridian Reverse Circulation [link]
A Deadly Summer in Africa [link]
** The abrupt change in hydroclimatology of the Common Era led to a westward shift of the Greenland ice cap [link]
The appearance of signals representing sudden warming of the stratosphere [link]
Scientists now blame geothermal heat for melting Antarctic glaciers [link]
Large-scale atmospheric agents cause snowfall on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica [link]
Confusion between ENSO and global warming: [link] [link] [link]
Seasonal Ice-Free Arctic Ocean Day Limits [link]
Contribution to Pole Amplification in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 . models [link]
Assessment of airborne respiratory virus transmission [link]
Atmospheric containment and weather extremes for the Euro-Atlantic region [link]
Ambiguous stability of bottom glaciers [link]
Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning [link]
** The extreme threshold determines the response of regional flooding to extreme rainfall changes [link]
July Floods in Europe: Very Rare and Extreme, They’re Hard to Study [link]
** Anti-greenhouse effect: Reactions of radiation and temperature in Antarctica to double CO2 [link]
** High tides and high tides in atmospheric river events on the west coast [link]
Biomass burning smoke and its effect on clouds [link]
Pielke Jr: Disaster of the 21st century [link]
Radiant feedback on land surface changes and associated precipitation changes [link]
Co-occurrence of drought in California and heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean due to climate change [link]
Coral reefs are developing [link]
** Earth’s Energy Imbalance from an Oceanic Perspective [link]
** Arctic ocean stratification by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age [link]
** ‘Recent emergence of Arctic Amplification’ in the last century of the observational record. Using a large group, we explore why Arctic Amplification did not occur for most of the last century. [link]
** A simple explanation for the decrease in phenological temperature sensitivity with warming [link]
** Lower peak as ice melts between last ice sheets and sea level rise [link]
The global human impact on delta morphology has resulted in an increase in net land area [link]
Increased probability of record-breaking extreme climate events [link]
** Evaluation of climate models CMIP5 and CMIP6 in simulating summer rainfall in the Southeast Asian monsoon region [link]
The bushfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 were so intense that they actually lowered the temperature in the Southern Hemisphere last year. [link]
The frequency of extreme rainfall is much higher with the rare occurrence of global warming [link]
Policy and technology
Farmers restore native grasslands as groundwater disappears [link]
Long-term energy storage: Blueprint for research and innovation [link]
MIT-designed project takes big step towards fusion power [link]
Australian start-up is beating China on cheaper and efficient solar panels [link]
How Bangladesh transformed itself into a modern and resilient society [link]
Variations of extreme snowfalls have shaped the roofs of traditional Chinese architecture over the past millennium [link]
Large carbon removal plant in Iceland [link]
Frame nature-based solutions to climate change [link]
“Risks? Crisis? Urgency? Impacts of a new climate emergency framework on governance and policy” [link]
Restoration of coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico [link]
Major storms may develop faster than cities can evacuate: we are reaching the limit of hurricane preparedness [link]
Biden’s acclaimed hypocrisy on climate policy: The Paris Agreement completely removed the global evolution of climate from actual policymaking.[link]
Economic development and reduced vulnerability to climate-related disasters in China [link]
The costs of climate policies are heterogeneous [link]
Radical potential of nuclear fusion [link]
Federal regulators declared shortages for the first time on the Colorado River as water officials look to a drier future. [link]
California’s NIMBY cities have pushed millions into homes in fire-risk areas – and are now abandoning them. [link]
Promoting bipartisan decarbonisation: lessons from successes and failures at the state level [link]
Managing the political economy of climate change policies [link]
Burning forests is key to increasing biodiversity [link]
** Climate litigation has a big gap in evidence [link]
Independent energy doesn’t mean it used to be [link]
A soil science revolution advances planning to combat climate change [link]
Western drought underscores need for action to reduce wildfire risk [link]
The ability to remove CO2 from weathering is enhanced by ecosystem response to powdery rock [link]
Lomborg: Welfare in the 21st century: enhancing development, reducing inequality from the effects of climate change and the costs of climate policies [link]
About science and scientists
** Ioannidis: How the pandemic is changing the standards of science.[link]
** Philospher Peter Boghossian resigns as lecturer: My university sacrificed ideas for ideology [link]
** Canceling culture in academia: New Puritan [link]
** Dan Sarewitz: How good is science? [link]
Social science monoculture doubled [link]
A postmodern inquisition: today’s activists closely resemble Gallileo’s inquisition [link]
“Water research needs to face the reality that it may be chasing too many publications and not enough ideas.” [link]
About how scientists don’t (refuse?) admit when they’re wrong. [link]
** Matt Ridley: How Science Has Lost Public Confidence [link]
