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Study: Most fossil fuels unburnable without carbon capture
This is a re-post from Simon Evans at Carbon BriefThe majority of fossil fuel reserves are unburnable if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, but carbon capture and storage (CCS) could...
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Development banks threaten to unleash an infrastructure tsunami on the...
Bill Laurance, James Cook UniversityWe are living in the most explosive era of infrastructure expansion in human history. The G20 nations, when they met in Australia in 2014, argued for between US$60...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #25
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun June 12, 2016Will This Retired Lawyer Open the Floodgates of Divestment From Fossil...
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Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology
This is a re-post from Leo Hickman at Carbon BriefBioenergy with carbon capture and storage – better known by the acronym “BECCS” – has come to be seen as one of the most viable and cost-effective...
View ArticleNew methods are improving ocean and climate measurements
I have often said that global warming is really ocean warming. As humans add more heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, it causes the Earth to gain energy. Almost all of that energy ends up in the...
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun June 26, 2016Wind at China’s Back to Amp Up Its Renewables by Bobby Magill, Climate...
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Alpine soils storing up to a third less carbon as summers warm
This is a re-post from Robert McSweeney at Carbon BriefThe top metre of the world’s soils contains three times as much carbon as the entire atmosphere. This means that losing carbon from the soil can...
View ArticleAfter 6 years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the...
One morning in the summer of 2014, I found myself in the city of Tacloban in the Philippines. The city and surrounding area had been devastated less than a year earlier by Super Typhoon Yolanda....
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Discovery exposes fragility of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Roz PidcockScientists have unearthed a 100m-thick river of ice beneath Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, which they fear could accelerate its path to eventual...
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The War on Science will change how you see the world
Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you view the world. The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Otto is one of those rare books. If you...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #28
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun July 3, 2016Government Think Tank Pushes Canada to Think Beyond Its Oil Dependence by...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #29
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New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire
Scientists use a variety of approaches to estimate the Earth’s climate sensitivity – how much the planet will warm as a result of humans increasing greenhouse effect. For decades, the different methods...
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Trump's energy plan poses climate threat to U.S. economy
by Robert Kopp, Rutgers UniversityLast December in Paris, the nations of the world agreed to an ambitious goal for greenhouse gas emissions: to bring net emissions to zero in the second half of this...
View ArticleClimate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuits
Lauren Kurtz is the Executive Director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund(CSLDF), a non-profit that defends scientists against legal attack. CSLDF was founded to fund Dr. Mann’s defense,...
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun July 10, 2016Christiana Figueres launches UN secretary general bid by Ed King,...
View ArticleWhy Paris climate pledges need to overdeliver to keep warming to 2C
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Dr Joeri Rogelj, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Rogelj was recently awarded the inaugural...
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Global warming implicated in dinosaur extinction
In a paper published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Florida show that there were big jumps in climate warming when the...
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Will the health dangers of climate change get people to care? The science...
Matthew Nisbet, Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern UniversityThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.Climate change is a major public health...
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