Recently The Economist (2013a), a prominent journalistic advocate of strong policies to control CO2 emissions, expressed their puzzlement on the absence of warming over the last 15 years. They observed that this flat period of global average temperature occurred despite that CO2 emissions from human sources continued at an increased rate. The total human-produced CO2 emissions in that period of...

[1] The use of a more physically based parametrisation scheme for sub-grid scale ocean mixing produces a more spatially uniform surface warming in the Southern Hemisphere in transient global warming simulations of the CCCma climate model than when an older scheme is used. Here we examine the effect of this different warming pattern on the tropospheric circulation response, by comparing simulati...

[1] An Earth System model is used to explore the response of the oceanic and terrestrial carbon sinks to strengthening and poleward shifting of the extratropical Southern Hemisphere winds, which is a robust feature of climate models’ response to greenhouse gas forcing through the 20th and 21st centuries. We find that under time-varying CO2 emissions poleward intensifying Southern Hemisphere win...

[1] Son KH, Choi CH, Park KY, Park CH. Which animal model is proper for evaluation of a muscular ventricular septal defect closure device? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2016;49:1295. [2] Lang N, Merkel E, Fuchs F, Schumann D, Klemm D, Kramer F et al. Bacterial nanocellulose as a new patch material for closure of ventricular septal defects in a pig model. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2015;47: 1013–21. [3] ...

[1] Since the 1970s sea ice extent has decreased dramatically in the Northern Hemisphere and increased slightly in the Southern Hemisphere, a difference that is potentially explained by ozone depletion in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere. In this study we consider the impact of stratospheric ozone depletion on Antarctic sea ice extent using a climate model forced with observed stratospheric...