2014 SkS Weekly Digest #41
Posted on 12 October 2014 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Howard Lee's original SkS article, The long hot tail of global warming - new thinking on the Eocene greenhouse climate, generated the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.
El Niño Watch
"In their monthly update, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University said there is still a two-thirds chance that a weak El Niño event emerges and that it will likely do so in the October-to-December timeframe, lasting until spring 2015."
Where Is El Nino? And Why Do We Care? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Oct 9, 2014
Toon of the Week
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
Quote of the Week
“We’re discovering a new climate change cost nobody has considered, but this isn’t some kind of new, catastrophic risk,” Jina* said. “This is something we already know about.”
*Amir Jina, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago
The $9.7 Trillion Problem: Cyclones and Climate Change by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Oct 10, 2014
SkS Spotlights
SkS in the News
In his Grist article, Republicans flail about looking for alternative to climate denialism, David Roberts links to John Upton's Grist article, 97 out of 100 climate scientists agree: Humans are responsible for warming.
Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature, a guest post article by Dana and John Cook posted on Climate Progress, is linkd to by Jeff Spross in Congressman: ‘I Am A Scientist’ And There’s No Evidence Of Manmade Climate Change also posted on Climate Progress.
In her Huffington Post article, GOP Congressman Says His Medical Background Qualifies Him To Deny Climate Change, Shadee Ashtari links to Dana's Guardian article, Survey finds 97% of climate science papers agree warming is man-made.
Coming Soon on SkS
- Dinner with global warming contrarians, disaster for dessert (Dana)
- Ocean Warming has been Greatly Underestimated (Rob Painting)
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #42A (John Hartz)
- Guest post (John Abraham)
- From pole to pole - a climate-themed tour through a zoo (Baerbel)
- Scientists to Explain 'Climate at Your Doorstep' at New Online Hub (Lisa Song, InsideClimate News)
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #42B (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
SkS Week in Review
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #41B by John Hartz
- What's the role of the deep ocean in global warming? Climate contrarians get this wrong, Guest Post by Greg Laden
- The long hot tail of global warming - new thinking on the Eocene greenhouse climate by Howard Lee
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #41A by John Hartz
- GWPF funder Lord Leach – relying on unreliable sources of global warming information by Dana
- Bart Verheggen Interview: Scientists’ Views About Attribution Of Global Warming by Collin Maessen
- Tackling global warming will improve health, save lives, and save money by John Abraham
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