Via The New Reddit Journal of Science – “…researchers [Zeke Hausfather, Kevin Cowtan, Dave Clarke, Peter Jacobs, Mark Richardson, Robert Rohde] who just published a new open access paper in Science Advances showing that ocean warming was indeed being underestimated, confirming the conclusion of a paper last year that triggered a series of political attacks. You can find some press coverage of their work at Scientific American, the Washington Post, and the CBC. One of the authors, Kevin Cowtan, has an explainer on his website as well as links to the code and data used in the paper.”

• See also via NOAA – 2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S. – 15 weather and climate disasters caused 138 deaths, $46B in damages.