Study: mild floods are declining, but intense floods are on the rise
It is well known that humans are causing the Earth to warm. We also know that a warmer atmosphere has more water vapor. Just like the air is more humid when it is warm, and less humid when cold. The...
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New research, August 28 - September 3, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. Continuously Amplified Warming in the Alaskan Arctic: Implications for Estimating Global Warming Hiatus"Focusing on...
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New research, September 4-10, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. State of the Climate in 2016 See also: A Look at 2016: Takeaway Points from the State of the Climate Supplement2....
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #37
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickAsia's glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #37
Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review......
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It takes just 4 years to detect human warming of the oceans
We’ve known for decades that the Earth is warming, but a key question is, how fast? Another key question is whether the warming is primarily caused by human activities. If we can more precisely measure...
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New research, September 11-17, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. Modelling past, present and future peatland carbon accumulation across the pan-Arctic region"We found that peatlands...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickAugust 2017 was second warmest on recordFrom NASA's Goddard Institute for Space...
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New research, September 18-24, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. The graphic is from Lamsal et al. (paper #32).Climate change1. Inconsistent subsurface and deeper ocean warming signals during...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickPeople Are Dying’: Puerto Rico Faces Daunting Humanitarian CrisisAs the full...
View ArticleThe Mail's censure shows which media outlets are biased on climate change
Back in February, the conservative UK tabloid Mail on Sunday ran an error-riddled piece by David Rose attacking Noaa climate scientists, who had published data and a paper showing that there was never...
View ArticleClimate and energy are becoming focal points in state political races
As soon as Donald Trump won the presidential election, people in the US and around the world knew it was terrible news for the environment. Not wanting to believe that he would try to follow through on...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #39
Story 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 Week...September is the most...
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Global climate impacts of a potential volcanic eruption of Mount Agung
Guest post by: Flavio Lehner (flehner@ucar.edu) and John FasulloNational Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USAAn example of a stratovolcano eruption (note:not Mt. Agung). On July 13, 2015,...
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New research, September 25 - October 1, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. Diurnal Cycle Variability of Surface Temperature Inferred from AIRS data"...it is found that the DTR of the surface...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #40
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickInternational concern as US moves to end clean power plan US and Chinese...
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New research, October 2-8, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. Comment on “Scrutinizing the carbon cycle and CO2 residence time in the atmosphere” by H. Harde"As we will show,...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41
Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickRecord Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests If climate...
View ArticleTrump’s plan to bail out failing fossil fuels with taxpayer subsidies is...
The conservative philosophy of allowing an unregulated free market to operate unfettered often seems to fall by the wayside when the Republican Party’s industry allies are failing to compete in the...
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