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Daily climate news for 14th of March 2018

Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States   Nature

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"Recent boreal winters have exhibited a large-scale seesaw temperature pattern characterized by an unusually warm Arctic and cold continents... Using a recently developed index of severe winter weather, we show that the occurrence of severe winter weather in the United States is significantly related to anomalies in pan-Arctic geopotential heights and temperatures... [in] recent decades... severe winter weather—including both cold spells and heavy snows—became more frequent in the eastern United States."

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Mike Pompeo, Climate Policy Foe, Picked to Replace Tillerson as Secretary of State  Inside Climate News

 

"With Rex Tillerson's firing, President Donald Trump's new choice for Secretary of State—Mike Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman currently serving as director of the CIA—signals a hardening stance against international engagement on climate change"

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Malaysian state makes 80 per cent forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts   Eco-Business

 

"The Malaysian state of Sarawak is committing to the preservation of 80 per cent of its land area as primary and secondary forest, according to an announcement by Sarawak Chief Minister"

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Photo: © abc.net.au

Rain or shine: new solar cell captures energy from raindrops  The Guardian

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"New device is designed to prevent power output plummeting when the sun isn’t shining – but practical application is still some years off"

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Combined effects of elevated temperature and CO2 enhance threat from low temperature hazard to winter wheat growth in North China   Nature

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"We examined the growth and yield of winter wheat... in response to the predicted elevated CO2 concentration and temperature... increasing CO2 concentration... was not able to offset the adverse effect of warming"

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World’s First Energy Storage Fund to List in London  Bloomberg

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"[A] private-equity firm is seeking to raise 100 million pounds ($139 million) from the initial public offering expected later this month on the London Stock Exchange. The fund will invest in large-scale batteries"

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Vietnam and U.N. to build storm-proof housing for coastal communities   Thomson Reuters Foundation

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"A new housing scheme aims to increase resilience in Vietnamese coastal communities to the effects of climate change"

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Pricey projects loom for Alaska as erosion threatens runways, roads and more   Anchorage Daily News

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"Alaska transportation engineers are facing a long list of increasingly urgent and costly public projects meant to solve climate-change related problems —imperiled runways, warped roads..."

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Photo: blogs.oregonstate.edu/anthropocene/

Irreversible ocean thermal expansion under carbon dioxide removal   Earth System Dynamics

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"We find that [thermosteric] sea level continues to rise for several decades after atmospheric CO2 starts to decline and does not return to pre-industrial levels for over 1000 years... Furthermore [it] rises faster than it declines"

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Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe   New Scientist

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"[It] might be at greater risk of shutdown than we thought. If the North Atlantic current... did grind to a halt the effects could be severe, from greater sea-level rise on Atlantic coasts to more intense droughts in Africa"

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Expanded US tax credit could increase global CCS capacity by two-thirds -report   Carbon Pulse

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"The recently expanded US tax credit for [Carbon Capture & Storage] may lead to the largest uptick in investment in the technology to date, analysts from the [IEA] said on Monday"

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Acceleration of advance of [springtime events] and warming with latitude over the past century   Nature

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"We detected significant patterns of co-variation in phenological time series characteristics that may confound estimates of the magnitude of variation in trends with latitude"

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