by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

(http://bit.ly/2NfdWba ) 2,000 years of North Atlantic climate change and considers how ocean circulation may have contributed to historical climate shifts. More from http://bit.ly/2Lkquvx .

New HadSST4.0 data set [link]

Models underestimate the beneficial effects of CO2 on photosynthesis by 60%. [link]

What controls duration of ENSO events? El Niño: Timing of onset-Start early die young. La Niña: Size of prior El Niño-Big Niño long Niña. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0681.1?

Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level rise over the next millennium [link]

What’s the impact of # clouds on uncertainties in future # Greenland melt and sea level contribution? [link]

Uncertainties in soil carbon storage [link]

Part of the Pacific Ocean Is Not Warming as Expected. Why? [link]

“Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences” [link]

Resolving the trend in the Hadley circulation [link]

Venus, Earth, and Jupiter line up every 11 years. Also every 11 years: the Sun loses its spots. Coincidence? Maybe not, says new research. [link]

Nonstationary relationship between autumn arctic sea ice and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation [link]

Controversy: Cold kills more than heat, says CDC [link]

100 years of progress in ocean observing systems [link]

A new paper finds coral reefs thrive during warm periods (rising sea levels) and experience die-offs during cold periods (falling sea levels). Further, the cooling and warming SST periods are driven by natural hydrological shifts (EASM). Yan et al., 2019 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JG004939 …

Local atmospheric forcing mechanisms driving coastal New England sea level change are related to the North Atlantic Oscillation and other surface atmospheric variations. [link]

Social science, technology & policy

Must read article of the week: The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse [link]

Louisiana unveils ambitious plan to get people out of the way of climate change [link]

A regional assessment of water embedded in the US electricity system [link]

Public support for global warming policies: solution framing matters [link]

Working to make geothermal energy practical [link]

Listening to climate doomsters makes our situation worse [link]

Grimm choices: How energy transition threatens a fairy tale forest [link]

Nordhaus with a new paper suggesting that the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet wouldn’t have significant economic consequences (as it still takes place over a fairly long time period) [link]

A provocative new book from MIT’s Andrew McAfee argues that the efficiencies driven by capitalism are needed to address climate change and pollution [link]

Refutation of Mooney’s Republican Brain [link]

The UN revises down its population forecasts [link]

World Bank on Resilient Infrastructures [link]

Beef rules [link] Beef is confusing. Most environmentalists say we should avoid it, while others say it might be the key to rebuilding soil health and addressing climate change.

About science and scientists

Cultural contradictions of modern science: Science Anxiety [link]

Politics disguised as science: when to doubt a scientific consensus [link]

The problem with conformity is that it deprives a society of the information it desperately needs…the dissenter challenges the status quo, introducing new ideas that may aid his group by improving an ailing system.” [link]

Fake science and the knowledge crisis: ignorance can be fatal [link]

“Interestingly, green academics (those studying subjects like climate change or sustainability) not only had the same level of emissions from air travel as their peers, but they were indistinguishable in the category of “easily avoidable” trips as well.” [link]

“Moral grandstanding is the use of public moral discourse for self-promotion and status attainment…Across studies, moral grandstanding was associated with status-seeking personality traits, as well as greater political and moral conflict in daily life.” https://psyarxiv.com/gnaj5/

For the over 50’s: Your professional decline is coming much sooner than you think. Here’s how to make the most of it [link]

Why “saving the planet” isn’t in my job description as an environmentalist: https://ensia.com/voices/saving-the-planet-environmentalists-working-together/ …