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Global warming hiatus claims prebunked in 1980s and 1990s

Recent global warming hiatus has been a subject of intensive studies during the last ten years. But it seems that there already was some research on global warming hiatus during 1980s and 1990s...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Jan 29, 2017World Bank disputes report tying Peru loans to Amazon destruction by...

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A punchy climate book from a citizen scientist

We know the climate is changing, the Earth is warming, and humans are the cause. As a scientist who studies this daily, I know the evidence is compelling and mutually reinforcing. In fact, the evidence...

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Correcting Warren Meyer on Forbes

In an online discussion last week I was directed to a 2012 article on the Forbes website written by businessman named Warren Meyer, titled Understanding the Global Warming Debate. The article contains...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #6

vA chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Feb 5, 2017Turnbull's new climate and energy adviser worked for coal industry lobby...

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Repeal without replace: a dangerous GOP strategy on Obamacare and climate

House Republicans have introduced a bill to rewrite the Clean Air Act. The bill, which has 114 co-sponsors (all Republicans), would revise the Clean Air Act such that:The term ‘air pollutant’ does not...

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Elevator Pitches - Chapter 01 - Ancient Sunlight

Below is an excerpted chapter from my book, Twenty-eight Climate Change Elevator Pitches.The purpose of this book is to deliver basic climate science information to the public in a simple and time...

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Is anything wrong with Forbes Climate Reporting?

Forbes has trotted out another entirely ignorant piece on climate change, "Is Anything Wrong With Natural, Non-Man-Made Climate Change?" this time by fake expert Mario Loyola, a lawyer with a...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #7

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Feb 12, 2017Canada’s Censored Scientists Are Helping American Researchers Resist...

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Scientists study ocean absorption of human carbon pollution

As humans burn fossil fuels and release greenhouse gases, those gases enter the atmosphere where they cause increases in global temperatures and climate consequences such as more frequent and severe...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #8

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Feb 19, 2017EPA Nominee Pruitt Ordered to Produce Documents About Fossil Fuel Ties by...

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Expect to see more emergencies like Oroville Dam in a hotter world

The evacuation of nearly 200,000 people near Oroville Dam is the kind of event that makes climate change personal. A co-worker of mine was forced out of his home for several days by the emergency...

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As EPA head, Scott Pruitt must act on climate change

Republished from the Seattle Times by Kelly Fleming, Jane Zelikova and Sarah MyhreWe have a message for Pruitt: We are scientists, and we are not going away. And neither is climate change.IN May, Scott...

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OMG measurements of Greenland give us a glimpse of future sea rise

If you meet a group of climate scientists, and ask them how much sea levels will rise by say the year 2100, you will get a wide range of answers. But, those with most expertise in sea level rise will...

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Dear Mr President: another message from across the Pond

The Carbon Cycle in 49 tweetsThere seem to be a fair number of communications being sent to the White House right now. On Thursday 23rd February, The Hill reported that "Climate sceptics ask Trump to...

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Just who are these 300 'scientists' telling Trump to burn the climate?

If you read my articles regularly, you may have noticed multiple times I have stated that the scientific argument is over; there are no longer any reputable scientists that deny the overwhelming human...

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Electric Cars are the Missing Link to a Zero Carbon Energy Grid

Since the start of the industrial revolution, humans have released hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, acidifying oceans, increasing the frequency of extreme weather...

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Climate Bet for Charity, 2017 update

In 2011 a bet was started up between "skeptics" of man-made climate change who follow Pierre Gosselin's "No Tricks Zone" blog, and myself and others here who follow SkS. It's a simple bet asking, "Will...

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Republican hearing calls for a lower carbon pollution price. It should be...

The ‘social cost of carbon’ is an estimate of how much carbon pollution costs society via climate damages, and can also be considered the optimal carbon tax price. The US federal estimate ($37 per ton...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #9

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Feb 26, 2017New UN climate chief: 'Action on warming unstoppable' by Roger Harrabin,...

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