by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my attention in the past few weeks
Increased heaviness of the jet stream generated by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during extreme summers [link]
Quantifying CO2 emissions from rivers and streams [link]
Arctic autumn warming since 2002 is driven by changes in the large-scale atmospheric circulation [link]
Tropical extreme drought leads to long-term increase in atmospheric CO2 growth rate change [link]
vertical structure of the Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) and how it changes around the continent and over time [link]
The Baltic Sea temperature of the early Holocene was 5-11°C MORE THAN NOW. [link]
View from space opens the water cycle of amazon [link]
The point near the Amazon rainforest is looming [link]
Seasonality of the ocean bottom carbon cycle [link]
Unraveling extreme El Niño-forced responses to external forces during the Holocene [link]
Antarctica has a huge layer of fluff underneath, which may explain why its ice sheet is so unstable: [link]
how anthropogenic aerosols caused the diversity decline of the Eurasian summer western jet stream [link]
Higher sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean during the past season change have weakened the South Asian monsoon [link]
Evolution of the North Atlantic Meridian Cycle since 1980 [link]
Double the annual carbon loss of forests in the tropics in the early twenty-first century [link]
This is exciting: Plant-based climate mitigation in a Greener and Warmer World [link]
Tropical telecom connectivity affects #Antarctic the climate changes [link]
Long-range and stratosphere prediction [link]
Observation of fresh water transport since 1970 https://judithcurry.com/2022/03/12/week-in-review-science-edition-134/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04370-w
Young Earth under the cool sun [link]
Wildfires increase runoff in heavily burned forest basins in the western US and could affect scarce water resources in the western US [link]
The determinants of emission pathways in the socio-climate system go hand in hand [link]
Maybe Mars and Earth didn’t form near each other [link]
The record for drought in the 20th century is not ‘normal’ for Australia. Antarctic ice cores reveal Australia’s drought risk is worse than expected [link]
Ocean acidification is not a problem for fish behavior [link]
The role of atmospheric circulation patterns in the distribution of extreme weather events [link]
The giant hole left by whaling [link]
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. A new report assesses the benefits, risks, and potential for responsible scaling of six specific ocean-based CDR strategies. http://ow.ly/G6k550H6nCU
NOAA’s new sea level rise forecast for US is lower than previous [link]
The mystery of the expansion of sea ice in Antarctica [link]
How climate scenarios fail hard with reality [link]
Increased Arctic Coastal Erosion and Its Sensitivity to 21st Century Warming [link]
“Sea ice retreat suggests a reorganization of the water mass transition in Northern Europe and the Barents Sea” 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 interannual variations in NAO and SPV, and are therefore unlikely to cause large average seasonal impacts in individual winters’ [link]
Climate change (refrigeration) is bad for disease [link]
Policy and technology
US pushes for more LNG exports as Ukraine crisis slows due to climate concerns [link]
The value of energy security [link]
We are not facing a global food crisis [link]
India’s wheat exports increase due to higher world prices [link]
Designing a Midterm Transition: An Assessment of Medium-Term Challenges to Coordinated Decarbonization in the United States. [link]
Rural backlash to renewable energy [link]
The transition to clean energy is accelerating [link]
Small is beautiful – climate change science considers people important [link]
How much nuclear power does it take to replace Europe’s natural gas? [link]
What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for energy and climate policies? [link]
Renewable energy policy paradox: [link]
Why is it important to avoid unstable climate change? [link]
Florida House of Representatives Passes Climate Change Resilience Bill [link]
War in Ukraine: We need to talk about fossil fuels]link]
Eastern Europe and Russia – The economic disaster we created has been forgotten [link]
Ethanol made from US corn is worse for the climate than gasoline [link]
Resilience quest – what could happen? [link]
The different fates of two community microgrids in Nigeria show why energy systems should be built to enable economic transformation. [link]
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission rescinds previously issued license renewals due to climate change considerations [link]
How to model societies responding to climate change [link]
Green Investment [link]
New strategies for resilient water utilities in sub-Saharan Africa [link]
Scientists have developed transparent solar cells that can be used in windows and last for 30 years: [link]
New York City is rolling out a new set of climate resilience plans to build up 520 miles of coastline affecting more than 8 million residents, potentially setting the stage for one of its major infrastructure projects. largest floor in the history of New York. [link]
“[I]If judgments are made under conditions of uncertainty, and the costs of false positives and false negatives are disproportionate in evolutionary history, selection should favor error generation. least expensive. ” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr1001_3…
Nuclear options https://politi.co/33zt4cC
World Bank experts on the potential water crisis in Central Asia – Third Pole http://dlvr.it/SK3KKl
Global land is squeezed [link]
Designing Mid-Transition: An Assessment of Mid-Term Challenges for Coordination of Decarbonization in the United States [https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wcc.768
The rise of Greenflation [link]
Not just climate: Are we ignoring other causes of disasters? [link]
About science and scientists
Trust in science versus trust in scientists [link]
Telling the truth with power and strength for the truth: reflections from the Covid pandemic [link]
I signed up for journalism. What they taught me was activism. [link]
Changing the knowledge environment [link]
Climate change research and finding solutions: a cross-sectoral review [link]
Science has a belief deficit [link]
Why do scientists lie? [link]
How to save science from Covid Politics [link]Climate change enters the treatment room [link]
Rethinking the search for the origin of life [link]
