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Open access notables Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Tropical Southwest Indian Ocean in the Recent Two Decades, Huang et al., Geophysical Research Letters:

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

Open access notables From this weeks government/NGO section, longitudinal data is gold and Leisorowitz, Maibachi et al. continue to mine ore from the US public with Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2023:

Open access notables From this weeks government/NGO section, Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline:

Open access notables Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters

Thanks to global conservation efforts, many of the animals featured in the latest episode are actually fairing surprisingly well

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. ...

Open access notables The Stepwise Reduction of Multiyear Sea Ice Area in the Arctic Ocean Since 1980, JGR Oceans, Babb et al.:

Open access notables Net zero is only a distraction— we just have to end fossil fuel emissions. The latter is true but the former isnt, or  not in the real world as its likely to be in the immediate future. And just just doesnt enter into it; we dont have a simple problem on our hands. Net zero is afflicted by various carpetbaggers and the fossil fuel industry itself— plus plain old human nature in the form of wishful thinking. But fully eliminating hydrocarbon fuels and non-fue...