Climate scientists, mourning Earth's losses, should make their voices heard
Sarah Myhre is an ocean and climate scientist with expertise in the marine ecological consequences of abrupt climate warming.It’s easy to find a news hook to begin an opinion piece on climate change....
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #21
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 Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #21
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun May 15Global warming won’t just change the weather—it could trigger massive...
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Lord Krebs: scientists must challenge poor media reporting on climate change
John Krebs, University of OxfordOcean acidification is causing fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry of the world’s oceans yet only one in five Britons has even heard of ocean...
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Climate denial arguments fail a blind test
As we saw in the recent legal ruling against Peabody coal, arguments and myths that are based in denial of the reality of human-caused global warming rarely withstand scientific scrutiny.In a new study...
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Tracking the 2°C Limit - April 2016
April is starting to come down off the shockingly high anomalies of the first couple of months of this year. GISS is clocking in a still strong warm anomaly of 1.11°C. This is by far the hottest April...
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In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of ‘negative emissions’
This is a re-post from Carbon BriefTo limit climate change to “well below 2C”, as nationsagreed to do in Paris last December, modelling shows it is likely that removing carbon dioxide emissions from...
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun May 22Solar power is already saving lives in the US. Here's how. by David Roberts,...
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Meteorologists are seeing global warming's effect on the weather
Paul Douglas is a Pennsylvania State University meteorologist and Founder of AerisWeather, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is co-author of “Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #22
SkS Highlights... El Niño to La Niña... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #23
SkS Highlights... El Niño Impacts... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of...
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun May 29ExxonMobil is in its climate change bunker and won’t let reality in by Damian...
View ArticleStudy Helps Explain Sea Ice Differences at Earth's Poles
This is a re-post from NASA JPLWhy has the sea ice cover surrounding Antarctica been increasing slightly, in sharp contrast to the drastic loss of sea ice occurring in the Arctic Ocean? A new NASA-led...
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Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
This is a re-post from Roz Pidcock at Carbon BriefHalf a degree makes a very big difference when judging how different parts of the world will feel the effects of climate change.This is the conclusion...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #24
SkS Highlights... El Niño is Over... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...SkS...
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun June 5, 2016Temperature records tumble in Australia as autumn marks biggest seasonal...
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Climate change and the value of daring
The climate system is a unifying ethical field that extends from the physical to the metaphysical and connects your actions to my well-being, and vice-versa, no matter how remote your life is from...
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Trump and global warming: Americans are failing risk management
Currently, about 40% of Americans support Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and about 40% of Americans are not worried about global warming. While short of a majority, this is a...
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Climate scientists have warned us of coral bleaching for years. It's here
Readers may have noticed that it’s been about a month since my last article. In recent weeks I presented guest articles in place of my own pieces. The reason for my absence was due to the adoption I...
View ArticleThe Grand Oil Party: House Republicans denounce a carbon tax
On Friday, the US House of Representatives voted on a Resolution condemning a carbon tax. As The Hill reported:Lawmakers passed, by a 237-163 vote, a GOP-backed resolution listing pitfalls from a tax...
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