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Open access notables Acceleration of the ocean warming from 1961 to 2022 unveiled by large-ensemble reanalyses, Storto & Yang, Nature Communications:

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

Closing out 2023 According to our database, this year in our academic research section weve eyeballed, aggregated and listed 6,755 peer reviewed climate-connected research articles, with 42,629 involved investigators and published in 215 journals.  Demonstrating both the tight continuity and integration of the overall climate research enterprise as well as climate consilience in plain sight,  this years new reports established their respective new research launching points by citing&nb...

Open access notables From this weeks government and NGO section, Flaws in EPA’s Monitoring and Verification of Carbon Capture Projects, Preet Bains, Environmental Integrity Project (pdf):

Open access notables The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention, Grubert & Talati, Carbon Management:

Open access notables In AGU Advances, David Schimel and Charles Miller suggest that our economic and physical models around dealing with climate change have not kept up with evolving reality, in Do Two Climate Wrongs Make a Right?:

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact." — Thomas Huxley

Here, we discover how Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) develops next-generation climate services from the regional to local scale.

Open access notables Publishing in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Rasmus Wuff proposes a new hydrometeorological metric to help track changes in precipitation as we change our climate, precipitation intensity duration index or PID. As the title implies,  The World’s Largest Point Rainfall Found Using the Precipitation Intensity Duration Index reveals a rather eye-popping statistic: in 2007 over the course of just 4 days, Réunion Islands Cratère Comm...

Open access notables Among five items in this weeks government/NGO section is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorys annual report Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition, chock-a-block with statistics and graphs quantifying an explosion of installed permanent  energy sources. Photovoltaic deployment is accelerating and now outpacing wind as costs have rapidly plunged. Given the natural properties of wind and solar energy supplies, reserve power storage is very much in frame. ...