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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #17
SkS Highlights... El Niño to La Niña... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... She Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review......
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A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization
Diplomats, business leaders, World Bank staff, and strategic partners gather just before the inaugural High-Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. Photograph: Joseph RobertsonWould...
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Climate scientists are now grading climate journalism
The internet represents an extraordinary opportunity for democracy. Never before has it been possible for people from all over the world to access the latest information and collectively seek solutions...
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Tracking the 2°C Limit - March 2016
The first three months of 2016 have now all been blow-out months, all rising above 1°C anomaly over the GISS mid-century baseline. This month came in at 1.28°C. In fact, all of the past 6 months have...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #18
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Apr 24Mourning Loomis Reef - the heart of the Great Barrier Reef's coral bleaching...
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Can the Republican Party solve its science denial problem?
There’s a widespread misconception about science denial – that on issues like the safety vaccines and genetically modified foods (GMOs), denial is found predominantly on the political left, mirroring...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #18
SkS Highlights... El Niño to La Niña... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review......
View ArticlePeabody coal's contrarian scientist witnesses lose their court case
In Minnesota, an administrative hearing resulted in a judicial recommendation that will have impacts across the country. It was a case argued mainly between environmental groups (such as Minnesota...
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Scientists are figuring out the keys to convincing people about global warming
The latest survey data from Yale and George Mason universities underscores thepartisan divide on climate science denial – 73% of Americans realize that global warming is happening, including 71% of...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #19
SkS Highlights... El Niño Impacts... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #19
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun May 1Another typical day for Greenland: Scientists find more reasons it will melt...
View ArticleDeep sea microbes may be key to oceans’ climate change feedback
Microbes are hardly the poster-children of climate change, but they have far more impact than polar bears on Earth’s carbon cycle – and therefore on our climate. A new study published Friday in Science...
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Comparing models to the satellite datasets
This is a re-post from Gavin Schmidt at RealClimateHow should one make graphics that appropriately compare models and observations? There are basically two key points (explored in more depth here) –...
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Skeptical Science wins 2016 NCSE Friend of the Planet award
This is a re-post from NCSENCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the Friend of Darwin award for 2016: Andrew J. Petto, a physical anthropologist, who formerly served on NCSE's board of directors...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun May 8How To Convince Someone To Care About Climate Change by Casey Williams,...
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Coal made its best case against climate change, and lost
Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal company (now bankrupt), recently faced off against environmental groups in a Minnesota court case. The case was to determine whether the State of...
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CO2's Role in Global Warming Has Been on the Oil Industry's Radar Since the...
This is a re-post from Inside Climate NewsThe oil industry's leading pollution-control consultants advised the American Petroleum Institute in 1968 that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #20
SkS Highlights... El Niño to La Niña... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review......
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Ocean Oxygen – another climate shoe dropping
How warming temperatures and ocean acidification are recreating an ancient killerOcean anoxia – widespread oxygen-starved dead zones in oceans - did the killing of ocean life in several mass...
View ArticleWhat Sir David King gets wrong about carbon pricing
Judy Hindley is a writer and long-term activist, co-founder of Marlborough Climate Pledge and Citizens’ Climate Lobby UK. Brian Utton is the national coordinator of Citizens’ Climate Lobby UK.Sir David...
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