Open access notables
At our roots Skeptical Science is about cognition of the results of climate science research in the minds of the entire human population. Ideally we d be perfectly communicating understanding of Earth s climate, and perfectly understood. We can only approximate that, but hopefully converging closer to perfection. With the passage of time and a lot of effort on the part of researchers working on how our species thinks, we can inch forward— if we pay attention. With that in mind, two papers in this week s trawl land very close to our home. Each sports results important to climate science communicators but differing in paths and challenges to practical applicability.
Open access notables
Included in this week s government/NGO section the World Meteorological Organization has released its annual retrospective of our previous year s climate situation, State of the Climate in 2022 (pdf):
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In this week s government/NGO reports section, another rapid assessment by World Weather Attribution, an outfit dedicated to keeping us informed of the impacts of climate change on weather events happening around us right now. WWA s new report Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada finds:
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Dawning recognition of the gravity of climate change rapidly lead to questions about how the world ocean would respond to warming, naturally leading to what happens at shorelines? This evolution is fully covered in The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021, Danial Khojasteh et al., Communications Earth & Environment:
Housekeeping
A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last week s edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasn t. It seems to be the case that Nature Publishing is passing some duff data into the publication metadata food chain, with the result that Unpaywall (we employ the Unpaywall API to identify open access) is repeating this erroneous input to us. This week s edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF links appear to be working properly.