49 publications for this week.
The last paper in this week's list features Skeptical Science volunteer and highly cited researcher Stephan Lewandowsky along with Skeptical Science founder John Cook as first and second authors respectively, working with regular collaborator Gilles Gignac. Their paper identifies, confirms and examines what layperson intuition may see as peer pressure to conform to perceived dominant opinions in discussions of climate change at online venues. The paper helps to illustrate and exemplify how human psychology with its inherent flaws and virtues may be our most significant hurdle in dealing with the climate change we're causing. The problem might be said to lie between our ears, not up in the air. See also the aptly named I’ll See It When I Believe It: Motivated Numeracy in Perceptions of Climate Change Risk for more treatment of our dubious reasoning capability when we're confused by extraneous factors, the publication itself also being a nice example of extending and solidifying previous research.
Method for composition of Research News: This synopsis is principally composed via RSS feeds from a variety of academic publishers, employing fairly broad filters. The filter sieves 200-300 publications per week for further inspection. The resulting raw list includes interesting but off-topic papers; human inspection winnows output to perhaps 100-150 works involving global atmospheric climate to a greater or lesser extent. Due to the volume of publications and limited time scrutiny is chiefly via reading abstracts unless compelling curiosity or reason for concern about the claims of a paper leads further. Some results are "down in the weeds," being narrow discussions of arcane climate model behaviors, or highly regional studies with little "big picture" impact, or tenuous results that will likely benefit from more research; these are discarded. The final result is the few dozen publications per week cited here, involving extraordinary breadth and depth. Global anthropogenic climate change instigates and nourishes an astounding, grand collision of a multitude of scientific disciplines.
We'll perennially note: dry titles can't convey the content of an abstract let alone the full potential implications of a given paper. The publications cited in this list all fit the specification of plausibly being important components of a puzzle we're solving. We're working on providing easy access to abstracts but in the meantime we feel the articles we choose to highlight are worth a click to reach and read.
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Global Health Implications of Nutrient Changes in Rice under High Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (OA)
Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks
Deepening of the winter mixed layer in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean over 2006?2017
Arctic Ocean freshwater dynamics: transient response to increasing river runoff and precipitation
Radiative Heating of an Ice?free Arctic Ocean
Automatically Finding Ship?tracks to Enable Large?scale Analysis of Aerosol?Cloud Interactions
Simultaneous Abiotic Production of Greenhouse Gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) in Subtropical Soils
Contrasting temperature sensitivity of CO2 exchange in peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada
Physical Drivers of Changes in Probabilistic Surge Hazard under Sea Level Rise
When will spaceborne cloud radar detect upward shifts in cloud heights?
New estimates of aerosol direct radiative effects and forcing from A?Train satellite observations
Evidence for increasing rainfall extremes remains elusive at large spatial scales: the case of Italy
Climate assessments for local action (OA)
Evidence for fire in the Pliocene Arctic in response to amplified temperature
Effects of atmospheric CO2 variability of the past 800 kyr on the biomes of southeast Africa
Elevation-dependent warming of maximum air temperature in Nepal during 1976–2015
Impacts of climate changes on the maximum and minimum temperature in Iran
Lateral attitude change on environmental issues: implications for the climate change debate
Genes on the edge: a framework to detect genetic diversity imperiled by climate change
Phytoplankton decline in the eastern North Pacific transition zone associated with atmospheric blocking
Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations
Thermal stress induces persistently altered coral reef fish assemblages
Meridional Structure and Future Changes of Tropopause Height and Temperature
Anticipated changes to the snow season in Alaska: Elevation dependency, timing and extremes
I’ll See It When I Believe It: Motivated Numeracy in Perceptions of Climate Change Risk
Assessment of changing pattern of crop water stress in Bangladesh
Cognitive complexity increases climate change belief
Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems
A Bayesian Networks approach for the assessment of climate change impacts on nutrients loading
Science by social media: Attitudes towards climate change are mediated by perceived social consensus
The previous issue of New Research may be found here.
Posted by SkS-Team on Tuesday, 25 June, 2019
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