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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #25
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickFrom heatwaves to hurricanes, floods to famine: seven climate change...
View ArticleTo lead on climate, leave the ivy tower
America’s top universities expend considerable efforts to lead in the rankings, but last week they fell short—missing a critical opportunity to show moral leadership on climate change. If top schools...
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New study confirms the oceans are warming rapidly
As humans put ever more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth heats up. These are the basics of global warming. But where does the heat go? How much extra heat is there? And how accurate...
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We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years
Gavin Foster, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton; Dana Royer, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, and Dan Lunt, Professor of Climate Science,...
View ArticleSkS Analogy 9 - The greenhouse effect is a stack of blankets
Tag LineThe greenhouse effect is like a stack of blankets on a winter night.Elevator StatementsMore blankets = more warmth: The greenhouse effect is like blankets warming the Earth. If it is -18°C...
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Climate scientists just debunked deniers' favorite argument
Whenever they hold one of their frequent hearings to reject and deny established climate science, congressional Republicans invariably trot out contrarian scientist John Christy, who disputes the...
View ArticleTrump fact check: Climate policy benefits vastly exceed costs
When people who benefit from maintaining the status quo argue against climate policies, they invariably use two misleading tactics: exaggerating the costs of climate policies, and ignoring their...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #26
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickMission 2020: A new global strategy to ‘rapidly’ reduce carbon emissionsFigure...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #26
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...Story of the...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #27
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...Story of the Week...The...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #27
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickG20 closes with rebuke to Trump's climate change stance German Chancellor...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #28
Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickToday’s Extreme Heat May Become Norm Within a DecadeWhen 2015 blew the record...
View ArticleStudy: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than...
Academics have identified a skew in American politics, in which policies that are implemented are much more conservative than average Americans prefer. A new paper by David Broockman at Stanford...
View ArticleSurrendering to fear brought us climate change denial and President Trump
This story picks up where an earlier post left off a few weeks ago. Then, I discussed some of the political realities associated with inaction on climate change. In that post, I said I would revisit...
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Is energy 'dominance' the right goal for US policy?
Daniel Raimi, Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of MichiganThis article was originally published on The...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #29
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickThe Planet Is Warming. And It's Okay to Be AfraidWhy being fearful can be part...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickEnergy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solutionCoal only makes...
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Study: our Paris carbon budget may be 40% smaller than thought
In the Paris climate treaty, nearly every world country agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, and preferably closer to 1.5°C. But a new study...
View ArticleTrump pulled out the oil industry playbook and players for Paris
Dr. Benjamin Franta is a doctoral student in history at Stanford University. He has a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University and is a former research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and...
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