Open access notables
What does intellectual bankruptcy often look like? Trying to switch topics by going ad hominem, that s what. When somebody stops thinking and begins flinging irrelevant insults, threats and accusations at a person, we re seeing a crisply humiliating admission: I have nothing. Going broke isn t free. In the case of climate science it s climate scientists who bear costs. Global Witness quantifies this, finding that some 50% of climate scientists have found themselves on the receiving end of vitriol hurled by (surrendering, let s remember) abusers in various online venues. Being outsmarted by a woman seems to be particularly enraging for losers, or so disproportionate statistics of degenerate behaviors suggest. The entire sorry and shaming report is available as a PDF: Global Hating. From this week s collection of government and NGO reports.
Open access notables Despite the potential for positive methane–climate feedbacks from global wetlands, most Earth System Models (ESMs) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) that informed the last Assessment Report of the IPCC do not directly incorporate this process. Publishing in Nature Climate Change, Zheng et al. unpack the implications of this oversight in Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback. The authors find that compared to climate models CH4 emissions are rising notably faster than projected, on the order of perhaps 25%. This of course is not good news. The article is consistent with a steady drumbeat of large and small ugly surprises appearing in the GHG sources & sinks, flux.. section here each week.
'The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the summary of its 6th climate assessment report. As the report shows, we teeter on the brink of climate catastrophe with nothing to hold us back.'
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