2015 SkS Weekly Digest #14
Posted on 5 April 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Rob Painting's Sea Level Rise is Spiking Sharply drew the highest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Attracting the second highest number of comments was Dana's Global warming and drought are turning the Golden State brown.
Toon of the Week
Quote of the Week
"The recovery does not happen on a century scale; it's a commitment to a millennial-scale recovery," said Sarah Moffitt, a marine ecologist at UC Davis' Bodega Marine Laboratory and lead author of the study. "If we see dramatic oxygen loss in the deep sea in my lifetime, we will not see a recovery of that for many hundreds of years, if not thousands or more."
Oceans might take 1,000 years to recover from climate change by Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times, Apr 1. 2015
Coming Soon on SkS
- A revealing interview with the top contrarian climate scientists (Dana)
- The history of emissions and the Great Acceleration (Andy Skuce)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #15A (John Hartz)
- Hungarian Translation of the Debunking Handbook (András G. Pintér)
- Guest Post (John Abraham)
- Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments (Suzanne Goldenberg)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #15B (John Hartz)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Digest #15 (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
SkS Week in Review
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #14B by John Hartz
- We must defend science if we want a prosperous future by Barry Jones
- Climate sensitivity is unlikely to be less than 2C, say scientists by Roz Pidcock
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #14A by John Hartz
- Matt Ridley is wrong again on fossil fuels by And Then There's Physics
- Sea Level Rise is Spiking Sharply by Rob Painting
- Global warming and drought are turning the Golden State brown by Dana
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #13 by John Hartz
You certainly have heard about new paper about AMOC slowdown by Stefan Rahmstorf et al. No free full text but plenty of comments on RealClimate.org and in popular press (e.g. linked to from Mike Mann's facebook).
But did you hear about Steve McIntyre's Blunter on the subject? Worth reading, just to haver a good laugh. While trying to critique said paper, Steve confused δ15N, a proxy for water mass movement, with a proxy for temperature. Subsequently, Steve's entire critique turned invalid nonsense.