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Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris
This is a re-post from The Conversation by John Church, CSIRO; Alistair Hobday, CSIRO; Andrew Lenton, CSIRO, and Steve Rintoul, CSIROMuch has been written about the challenge of achieving the targets...
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Why is 2016 smashing heat records?
Yet another global heat record has been beaten. It appears January 2016 - the most abnormally hot month in history, according to Nasa - will be comprehensively trounced once official figures come in...
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Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change
Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #15
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View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #15
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Apr 39 Times Bill Nye Blew Our Minds With Climate Change Knowledge by The Climate...
View ArticleThe similarities between Trump support and climate denial
It’s long puzzled climate realists: why do free market supporters oppose free market solutions to climate change? The answer may be related to another puzzling question: why does Donald Trump have such...
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To meet the Paris climate goals, do we need to engineer the climate?
The climate talks that convened in Paris at the end of 2015 produced a historic agreement, giving negotiators and climate activists good reason to celebrate. Now the task is to ensure that the ambition...
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After COP21: 7 Key Tasks to Implement the Paris Agreement
This is a re-post from the World Resources Institute by Eliza Northrop The Paris Agreement adopted at COP21 last year reflects the collective vision of 195 countries, but it is only the start. While...
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Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes?
This is a re-post from Robert McSweeney at Carbon BriefSeveral media outlets are reporting that new research shows climate model projections of rainfall extremes may be “flawed” or “wrong”.The study,...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #16
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Apr 10In Science, It’s Never ‘Just a Theory’ by Carl Zimmer, Science, New York Times,...
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White House: Climate Change Poses Urgent Health Risk
This is a re-post from Bobby Magill at Climate CentralClimate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report...
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James Powell is wrong about the 99.99% AGW consensus
This is reposted from Critical Angle with slight modifications and updates.In a recent article in Skeptical Inquirer, geologist and writer James Lawrence Powell, claims that there is a 99.99%...
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Open letter to the Wall Street Journal editor: a scientists’ response to...
This letter was submitted to the editor of the Wall Street Journal who did not publish it. On April 6, 2016, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Bjorn Lomborg entitled “An Overheated...
View ArticleEl Niño is Earth's rechargeable heat battery
The recent El Niño has been in the news of late because the warm waters in the Pacific have helped lift Earth’s temperatures to new records. Recent research is helping to track energy flows between the...
View ArticleWorld’s largest Earth science organization to continue accepting ExxonMobil...
Geoffrey Supran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Ploy Achakulwisut is a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University. Ben Scandella is...
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Study: humans have caused all the global warming since 1950
A new study published in Climate Dynamics has found that humans are responsible for virtually all of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century. It’s not a novel result – in fact, most...
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Climate Bet for Charity, 2016 Update
We are now half way into a climate bet made between a number of climate realists and climate contrarians who were commenting on the NoTricksZone blog 5 years ago. This bet originated when I made an...
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The climate change generation gap
Muppets Statler and Waldorf represent the dwindling generation of old, white, conservative, American men to which climate denial caters. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.A record number of Americans now...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #17
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Apr 17Ancient volcanoes could be key to predicting impact of climate change by Andrew...
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