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Climate inertia
This is a re-post from Bart Verheggen's blogImagine you’re on a supertanker that needs to change its direction in order to avoid a collision. What would you do? Would you continue going full steam...
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Piecing together the Arctic’s sea ice history back to 1850
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Florence Fetterer, principal investigator at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US.Sea ice cover in the Arctic has undergone a widely reported...
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State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Research...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #34
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Aug 14, 2016A closer look at Trump’s sentence-like word strings on coal, China, and...
View ArticleClimate-related disasters raise conflict risk, study says
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeneyExtreme weather increases the risk of armed conflict in ethnically-diverse countries, a new study suggests.Around 23% of conflict outbreaks in...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #34
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #35
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Aug 21, 201691,000 Electric Cars Sold In Europe In 1st Half Of 2016 by James Ayre,...
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Naïve empiricism and what theory suggests about errors in observed global...
This is a re-post from Variable VariabilityIn its time it was huge progress that Francis Bacon stressed the importance of observations. Even if he did not do that much science himself, his advocacy for...
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Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast
A new study measures the loss of ice from one of world’s largest ice sheets. They find an ice loss that has accelerated in the past few years, and their measurements confirm prior estimates.As humans...
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Report Shows Whopping $8.8 Trillion Climate Tab Being Left for Next Generation
This is a re-post from Common Dreams by Lauren McCauley"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children," is an oft-quoted proverb, frequently used to explain the...
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An update on methane emissions from fracking (in the US)
A relatively large number of research publications has appeared in the peer-reviewed literature since we last updated our readers on fracking and methane, CH4, emissions. We cannot discuss them all...
View ArticleCalifornia has urged President Obama and Congress to tax carbon pollution
Last week, the California state senate passed Assembly Joint Resolution 43, urging the federal government to pass a revenue-neutral carbon tax:WHEREAS, A national carbon tax would make the United...
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2016 SkS Weekly Digest #36
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A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Aug 21, 2016US EIA: Natural Gas CO2 Emissions Surpassing Coal Emissions by Aisha...
View ArticleCoordinator of UK Ocean Acidification Research Attacks The Spectator for...
This is a re-post from DeSmogBlog by Graham ReadfearnThe Spectator is one of the oldest English language magazines on the planet, established in London in 1828. Chances are if you’ve never read it,...
View ArticleAmericans Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before,...
This is a re-post from DeSmogBlog by Graham ReadfearnAmerican voters and politicians are now more polarized than ever before across all aspects of climate change — from the cause, to the science and...
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Range anxiety? Today's electric cars can cover vast majority of daily U.S....
By Jessika E. Trancik, Associate Professor in Energy Studies, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.Electrifying...
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Researching climate change communication at George Mason University
Next January, I’ll be relocating to the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. For a Brisbane boy who has never lived outside of Australia, moving to walking distance from...
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Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and polarization
A new study by a team of sociologists at Oklahoma State University has found political polarization on climate change is growing in the United States. Today’s Republicans are less likely than they were...
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