Despite Trump, American companies are still investing in renewable energy
After the election of Donald Trump, many of us in the climate and energy fields were rightfully fearful. What would happen to international agreements to cut greenhouse gases? What would happen to...
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The war on coal is over. Coal lost.
Last week, Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announced, “the war on coal is over.” If there ever was a war on coal, the coal industry has lost. According to a new report from the Union of...
View ArticleCliFi – A new way to talk about climate change
Cli-Fi refers to “climate fiction;” it is a term coined by journalist Dan Bloom. These are fictional books that somehow or someway bring real climate change science to the reader. What is really...
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New research, October 9-15, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.The figure is from paper #79.Climate change1. Channelized Melting Drives Thinning Under a Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickNew Fire Danger Threatens to Worsen Most Disastrous Wildfire Season in...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #42
Story of the Week... SkS in the News... Toon of the Week... Quote 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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Americans want a tax on carbon pollution, but how to get one?
According to a new study published by Yale scientists in Environmental Research Letters, Americans are willing to pay a carbon tax that would increase their household energy bills by $15 per month, or...
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New research, October 16-22, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Each week there are new research papers from all over the world. To illustrate this, the figure below shows the rough study...
View ArticleWhat does a sexist Google engineer teach us about women in science?
What does a sexist Google engineer teach us about women in science?Nothing. That’s the short answer, but it deserves some commentary. In early August, a young Google computer engineer made lots of news...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickCoal use must 'pretty much' be gone by 2050 to curb sea-level rise, researchers...
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Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit
This is a re-post from Carbon BriefDr Joeri Rogelj is a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and a coordinating lead author of the IPCC’s...
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New data gives hope for meeting the Paris climate targets
Over the past half-century, growth in the global economy and carbon pollution have been tied together. When the global economy has been strong, we’ve consumed more energy, which has translated into...
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New research, October 23-29, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.(Figure is from paper #16.)Climate change mitigation1. Geophysical potential for wind energy over the open oceans"Wind speeds over...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickThere’s a huge gap between the Paris climate change goals and realityCurrent...
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Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record
via the WMOConcentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800 000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization's...
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Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
Gregory J. Carbone, Professor of Geography, University of South CarolinaThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.When asked about major threats to their...
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New research, October 30 - November 5, 2017
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.The graph is from paper #80.Climate change1. Observed warming over northern South America has an anthropogenic origin"Results...
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickConservatives probably can’t be persuaded on climate change. So now what?One...
View ArticleWhat do Jellyfish teach us about climate change?
What do Jellyfish teach us about climate change?A lot. At least that’s what I learned after reading a very recent paper out in the journal Global Climate Change. The article, “Ocean acidification...
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Rapid CO2 cuts could allow some cool-water corals to adapt to global warming
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy DunneSome of the world’s most diverse coral reefs are found in cooler parts of the tropics. These corals may be able to adapt to rising temperatures if...
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