A profile of award-winning climate scientist Kevin Trenberth
The American Geophysical Union - the pre-eminent organization of Earth scientists - presents annual awards to celebrate the achievements of scientists. The awards, which are often named after famous...
View ArticleUnderground magma triggered Earth’s worst mass extinction with greenhouse gases
Coincidence doesn’t prove causality, as they say, but when the same two things happen together over and over again through the vast span of geological time, there must be a causal link. Of some 18...
View ArticleFossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Fossil fuels have two major problems that paint a dim picture for their future energy dominance. These problems are inter-related but still should be discussed separately. First, they cause climate...
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SkS Resources - Easy to remember Short URLs
Many of you will - hopefully! - be aware of the short URLs included on the Fixed-number list which lead to our rebuttals. They all have the format of "http://sks.to/" + [key word]. So, if you know that...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #32
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickNOAA confirms 2016 as hottest year on record for the planetThe federal...
View ArticleYale Climate Connections: America's beacon of climate science awareness
This is an unabashed endorsement of an important group. I have no affiliation with them or conflict of interest. They are great, period.The ability to convey complex climate science to a wide-ranging...
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Problems For Oil
The importance of oil should not be underestimated as an energy source – and a pollutant. Almost every form of transport is dependent on it and its refined products and the present economy would not...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #33
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickJuly 2017 equaled record July 2016 A global map of the June 2017 LOTI...
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It's Skeptical Science's 10th Birthday!
Ten years ago, when Skeptical Science (SkS) first went live, John Cook had no inkling of what he had set in motion with the push of the proverbial button. Sifting through the material we have on SkS...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickClimate change threatens agricultural trade in Pacific Rim economies, UN agency...
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New study finds that climate change costs will hit Trump country hardest
Humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. We know that. We’ve known it for decades. Okay so what? The follow-up questions should be directed to what the effects of warming will be. What will the...
View ArticleStudy: Katharine Hayhoe is successfully convincing doubtful evangelicals...
Approximately one-quarter of Americans identify as evangelical Christians, and that group also tends to be more resistant to the reality of human-caused global warming. As a new paper by Brian Webb and...
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New research, August 21-27, 2017
About five years ago, Skeptical Science had a weekly feature called "new research from last week" which was compiled by me. I stopped doing the posts at the end of 2012. Now I'll start making those...
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Exit, Pursued by a Crab
This is a re-post from Critical AngleParticipating in social media creates a wide and diverse network of acquaintances. Often, these people become “friends”, even though direct personal contact may...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #35
Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week...Toon 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 News Roundup #35
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickGlobal warming doubles growth rates of Antarctic seabed's marine fauna – study...
View ArticleThe Trump administration wants to bail out failed contrarian climate scientists
Climate contrarians, like Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, don’t understand how scientific research works. They are basically asking for a government handout to...
View ArticleDenying Hurricane Harvey’s climate links only worsens future suffering
Human-caused climate change amplified the damages and suffering associated with Hurricane Harvey in several different ways. First, sea level rise caused by global warming increased the storm surge and...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #36
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's Pick6 Questions on Hurricane Irma, Harvey and Climate Change Hurricane Irma, a...
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I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist
Katharine Hayhoe, Professor and Director, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.ExxonMobil’s deliberate...
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