A somewhat different topic, question for Judith Curry. AAAS / Science magazine has been publishing weekly briefs starting in January 2014 under the subject heading “Challenges to Climate Science.” These would appear to be from the climate consensus / community many if not all are IPCC assessment contributors/reviewers. Most are interesting for what they say but do not go to what many of us feel are the core issues which have been discussing i.e., attribution, “the uncertainty monster” and related to the hiatus. These are not peer reviewed and appear to be generally opinion pieces… something like brand / image marketing and support for the AR5-WG1 report to further the storyline. I am interested in hearing others opinions. Here are the pieces so far:
Rosenfeld, Daniel, Steven Sherwood and Robert Wood, Leo Donner, “Climate Effects of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions,” Science 343: pp 379-380, January 24, 2014
Nisbet, Euan G., Edward J. Dlugokencky and Philllippe Bousquet, “Methane on the Rise – Again,” Science 343: pp. 494-495, January 31, 2014
Vecchi, Gavriel A. and Babriele Villanni, “Next Season’s Hurricanes,” Science 343: pp 618-619, February 7, 2014
Sherwood Steven and Qiang Fu, “A Drier Future,” Science 343: pp. 737-739, February 14, 2014
Hegerl, Gabi and Peter Stott, “From Past to Future Warming,” Science 343: pp. 844-845, February 21, 2014
Clement, Amy and Pedro DiNezio “The Tropical Pacific Ocean – Back in the Driver’s Seat,” Science 343: pp. 976-978, February 28, 2014
Isaac Held, “Simplicity Amid Complexity,” Science 343: pp 1206-1207, March 14, 2014
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Wallace, John M., Isaac M. Held, David W.J. Thompson, Kevin Trenberth, John E. Walsh, “Global Warming and Winter Weather, Science 343 [Letters-Commentary]: pp 729-730, February 14, 2014