Biofuels can help solve climate change, especially with a carbon tax
Facing the reality of human-caused warming, we now look for ways to reduce the problem so that future generations will not inherit a disaster. So, what can we do now to help the future?The easiest...
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70% of king penguins could ‘abruptly relocate or disappear’ by 2100
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy DunneThe arduous journey that king penguins must make in order to hunt fish to bring back to their young could become even longer as the climate warms,...
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New research, March 12-18, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.The Figure is from paper #16.Climate change impactsMankind1. Inundation of a low-lying urban atoll island: Majuro, Marshall...
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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #12
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97...
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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickMailings to Teachers Highlight a Political Fight Over Climate Change in the...
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John Kelly shut down Pruitt’s climate denial ‘red team,’ but they have a Plan B
In 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, which means that if it poses a threat to public health or welfare, the EPA must regulate it under the Clean Air Act. In...
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Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeneyThe warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland –...
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Web of Power: Cambridge Analytica and the Climate Science Denial Network...
This is a re-post from DeSmogUK by Mat HopeIt has been a heck of a few days in the spotlight for Cambridge Analytica — a ‘political consultancy’ that confesses it likes to operate in the...
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How could global warming accelerate if CO2 is 'logarithmic'?
After publishing my experiences talking to science 'dismissives' (or 'skeptics', or whatever you'd like to call them) and then participating in the excellent Denial101x course, I was invited to join...
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Students from KMIDS college in Bangkok posting comments
You may have noticed comments in several threads which seem to have come a bit out of the blue. We were wondering the same and found out that the comments are related to a climate change related class...
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New research, March 19-25, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.The figure is from paper #80.Climate change mitigation1. Unlikely pioneers: creative climate change policymaking in smaller U.S....
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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickStanford law and science experts discuss court case that could set precedent...
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On climate change, zero-sum thinking doesn't work
Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Founder and President of the Geoversiv Foundation, and lead strategist in the Resilience Intel initiative.Democracy is not a...
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Skeptical Science at EGU 2018
Next week, about 14,000 scientists will meet in Vienna, Austria for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Skeptical Science will make an appearance in a few of the thousands of sessions...
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Scientists examine threats to food security if we meet the Paris climate targets
We have delayed action for so long on handling climate change, we now can no longer can “will it happen?” Rather we have to ask “how bad will it be?” and “what can be done about it?” As our society...
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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.Climate change1. Consistency of climate change projections from multiple global and regional model intercomparison projects2....
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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #14
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's PickMarch is 3rd warmest on record, many contrasts March 2018 was the third warmest...
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American conservatives are still clueless about the 97% expert climate consensus
Gallup released its annual survey on American perceptions about global warming last week, and the results were a bit discouraging. While 85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize...
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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #14
Opinion of the Week... Opinion 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...
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New resource: The Fact-Myth-Fallacy slide-deck
Many of you will already be familiar with the Fact-Myth-Fallacy structure of a successful debunking. For a refresher, John Cook's post about "Inoculation theory: Using misinformation to fight...
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