by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my attention in the past few weeks
This is important. ‘Forced Freshwater Cycle Overturning Atlantic Meridian Revisited’ https://nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01328-2… – ‘AMOC may not be as sensitive to FW flows and Arctic sweetening as currently projected at the end of the twenty-first century’
Changes in water supply due to global tree restoration [link]
International satellite to monitor the impact of small ocean currents [link]
The 60-year-old scientific tool that helped Covid kill [link]
Salt plague: the dual threat of warming and rising salinity [link]
Marine heat waves off Central and Southern Chile: Understanding the compulsion mechanism in 2016-2017: [link]
Saravanan: How to judge a beauty model contest? Performance metrics and attribution metrics [link] Note: this is the best new climate science blog I’ve seen in a while.
Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange between biomes and continents https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007…
The new CMIP6 group of climate models has too many highly climate sensitive models. A new commentary argues that end users need to take that into account in impact studies. [link]
How well do we understand the land-ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle? [link]
Global ocean memory decline in the 21st century [link]
The ocean is still sucking up carbon – maybe more than we think [link]
‘Natural fluctuations’ The driving reason for Gulf Stream changes https://climatechangedispatch.com/study-natural-volatility-dominant-reason-for-gulf-line-change/… The North Atlantic is cooling – a striking contrast to most ocean areas. , natural fluctuations are the main reason for this cooling.
Transform environmental research to avoid tragedy [link]
People’s visualizations of how forests are growing – supporting forest health, bushfire resistance, wildlife habitat research [link]
Did volcanoes accelerate the fall of Chinese dynasties? [link]
First time discovered underground water geyser under Antarctic ice line. https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/groundwater-discovered-sediment-buried-deep-under-Antarctic-ice
Predicting slowdown of decadent climate warming trends with explainable neural networks [link]
How is the ocean’s anthropogenic carbon reservoir filled? [link]
Improved temperature reconstruction from ice core-water isotope records. https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2021-37 /…
A new clue to the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelf [link]
A new way to assess the global warming potential of short-lived pollutants [link]
“Winter and spring climates explain a large part of the annual variation and trends in the western US summer fire zone” https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088 / 1748-9326 / ac6886…
Climate change and future pandemics [link]
The Vikings in Greenland may have disappeared because of a lack of water [link]
Global carbon budget 2021 [link]
Surface warming, not wind variability, is the primary mechanism for changes in ocean currents. [link]
Solid evidence for effective aerosol reversal in reducing climate forcing [link]
How a 18.6-year lunar cycle might slightly affect climate through the regulation of ocean tidal mixing (in a model) – https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-151/…
The risk of wildfires in California is… complicated. Lots of influences compete to untangle, as in this example the precipitation forecast is up to 30% + increase in 2100. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002694? Af = CHEAP…
Two levels: history of the speed limit of climate change [link]
Global warming is accelerating ocean currents. This is why [link]
Observation and determination of surface radiation force by CO2 [link]
Hot springs hint at how the Tibetan Plateau became the roof of the world [link]
linking astronomically-driven climate change to human evolution. [link]
The Mystery of Methane [link]
The Arctic is much warmer 6000 years ago 90% of the glaciers are smaller [link]
Technology and policy
Must Read: The New Geopolitics of Energy [link]
The US has more clean energy projects planned than the grid can handle [link]
Is behavioral public policy a distraction from the search for systemic solutions? [link]
Vaclav Smil’s new must-read book “How the world really works: The science behind how we got here and where we’re going” [link]
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World’s first electrochemical ocean CO2 removal plant in operation [
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The offsetting industry is booming: cutting CO2 or just pocketing it? [
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Beijing’s green fist: How environmental policy becomes an instrument of state control [
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Democrats are really thick on climate change [
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To exploit Russia’s fossil gas, Germany is deploying electric and hybrid heat pumps. This will have a ripple effect that makes the technology cheaper worldwide. Another way that Putin’s war is accelerating the clean energy transition. [
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Air conditioning should be a human right during the climate crisis. We need to protect vulnerable people from the killing heat without damaging the environment [
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“Africa needs more energy… Electricity shortage affects livelihoods and destroys dreams of hundreds of millions of young people.” The hypocrisy of rich countries’ climate policy [
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At the same time fighting climate change and poverty – [
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Is wind energy economically viable? [
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An ambitious project to bring hydroelectricity from Canada to New England is on the verge of failure after conservationists, Native Americans, concerned residents and rival energy companies launched a campaign. noisy to destroy it. https://judithcurry.com/2022/05/14/week-in-review-climate-edition-2/
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Early collection of information on potential disasters is an integral part of Nepal’s National Adaptation Plan to increase climate resilience between 2021 and 2050. Learn more: http://wrld.bg/FiUI50IZpQw
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Thirty years of the social-scientific interface: What’s next? [
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New Open Access Book: Public Policy Dilemmas: Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges [
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Biden’s nuclear bailout is a messy necessity [
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India reopens more than 100 coal mines as energy crisis worsens [
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The future of water access in Peru may lie in engineering practices from 1,400 years ago [
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How Oslo has learned to fight climate change [
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Wastewater testing is key to monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in the next phase of the pandemic, [
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Agrarian climate blame game [
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Whose land? Future of energy and land use [
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Environmentalists against each other [
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The Blame Game: a carbon footprint based on consumption versus income [
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Demand for raw materials for electricity in climate change mitigation [
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Revealing latent energy poverty using the energy equity gap [
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Review of water infrastructure investments in California [
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New IPCC report highlights important role of carbon capture [
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Equity in water resource planning: the way forward for decision-makers [
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American policy conflict in the home: exploring the politics of climate inaction in polycentric uprising [
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“Typically, our prism for assessing climate proposals is ideological rather than pragmatic.” [
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“Research shows that such bias can reinforce the vulnerability of supportive interventions; or it can transfer vulnerability to other people or places. It can even create entirely new sources of injury.” [
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A Code of Conduct is Mandatory for Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research [
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How Russia makes the world more food insecure [
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There is no scenario in which the year 2050 is normal [
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West Virginia, a coal state, will become nuclear [
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The world lacks time, not minerals, for climate-saving technology [
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How does burning recycled wood help the climate? [
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21 advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy [
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Seeds of hope: How nature inspires scientists to deal with climate change [
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Scientists have invented an ingenious low-cost system for taking water from the air, allowing crops to grow in arid regions of the world: [
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A quiet revolution: southwestern cities learn to thrive amid drought [
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Wind Projects Rejected in NE&OH, Total Rejections in the US Now 328 as of 2015 [
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The risk of population explosion [
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Drought in the American Southwest: managing risk, adapting, and preparing for the worst [
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California is set to win the Darwin Award for the World’s Worst Energy Policies [
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Clean energy doesn’t end the energy security game – it reshuffles [
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Think Bigger About Remote Work [
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The world’s first floating city [
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Expanding ocean food production in the face of climate change [
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We need four waves of climate action: not just the “what” but the “when” [
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Why are nature-based solutions to climate ignored? they are cheap, effective and completely lacking [
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Research program towards disaster risk management pathways in multi (hazard) risk assessment https://judithcurry.com/2022/05/14/week-in-review-climate-edition-2/
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A Drowning World: Kenya’s Quiet Underwater Slides [
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Sri Lanka banned the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides last April. The results were brutal and quick, plunging the country into a deep humanitarian and economic crisis.[
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Agricultural Replanting [
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Matthew Kahn: The economic consequences of youth pessimism about climate risks. [
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The idea of energy efficiency needs to be reinvented [
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Finland is on the verge of changing the nuclear power game [
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Climate neutrality for state dairy farms at hand [
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Pentagon builds nuclear micro-reactors to power remote bases [
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About science and scientists
Smarter people are more likely to endorse free speech. https://Journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117July 1948550619896168
“It will take more than professional options… to get our country back to a place where we can disagree without wanting to ruin the lives of those with whom we… disagree. [link]
Break the sure trap [link]
On effective activism and honest wisdom [link]
Remove the intellectual boundaries of the ivory tower [link]
Musk, twitter and moderation [link]
Elon Musk: “He made very consumer products in a way that offended the sensitivities of climate activists who think we need austerity. He wants people to have a high-consumption and low-carbon lifestyle, and it just creates too much friction.” [link]
Scientific conclusions do not need to be accurate, proven or believed by their authors. https://philpapers.org/archive/DANSCN.pdf
Diverse perspectives, one truth [link]
“The False Equivalence Between Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression” https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/ article / view / 1715
The dangers of lying to yourself about the future [link]
Dorian Shuyler Abbot: Science and Politics: Three Principles, Three Fables [link]
Daniel Kahneman shared his insights into how we make decisions, the “noise” that surrounds human judgments, and how organizations can improve decision-making. Read: http://ow.ly/j7SF50IMXob
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Willingness to accept criticism is the key to learning [
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Why has the past decade been strangely stupid? [
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Leading by example: a silent but effective form of action [
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