2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Oct 9, 2016Oil, Gas and Cows Culprits in Methane Spike, Study Says by Bobby Magill,...
View ArticleExplainer: Paris Agreement on climate change to ‘enter into force’
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Sophie YeoThe Paris Agreement will formally come into force next month, legally binding countries that have ratified the deal to act on the pledges made last...
View ArticleClimate scientists published a paper debunking Ted Cruz
A new study has just appeared in the Journal of Climate which deals with an issue commonly raised by those who deny that human-caused climate change is a serious risk. As I have written many times, we...
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Finance for deep-rooted prosperity is coming
Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for the nonpartisan nonprofit organization Citizens’ Climate Lobby.“Macrocritical resilience” may be the most mystifying two-word phrase you need to know....
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Insight into the scientific credibility of The Guardian climate coverage
This is a re-post from Climate FeedbackOver the past two months, Climate Feedback has asked its network of scientists to review 5 widely read articles published by The Guardian. Three were found to be...
View ArticleNo longer taken seriously, we're seeing the last gasp of climate denial groups
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is an anti-climate policy advocacy group in the UK that often releases misleading scientific “reports.” The group also hosts annual lectures, and this year,...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Oct 16, 2016Paris Becomes One of the Most Garden-Friendly Cities in the World by...
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Global warming continues; 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded
We know the world is warming – no factor can explain it aside from human emissions of greenhouse gases. Despite this, people who deny the basic facts of climate change have tried to argue that the...
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Tracking the 2°C Limit - September 2016
Septembers GISTemp data is now in so I can update the 2°C Limit chart. (Full page image here.) The Sept anomaly came in at 0.91°C, baselined to preindustrial that puts last month at 1.168°C. Now that...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Oct 23, 2016India’s solar power set to outshine coal by Henner Weithoener, Climate...
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Climate change could push risk of ‘megadrought’ to 99% in American southwest
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeneyA megadrought spanning several decades could be almost certain to hit the American southwest this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not...
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US Passenger Vehicle Emissions Comparable to 1980 Mt. St Helens Eruption...
The eruption of Mount St Helens on May 18th 1980 was an event that few who were alive at the time will forget. The dramatic explosion and subsequent flooding was deeply surreal, and for 57 people,...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Oct 30, 2016Hoax or crisis? Trump, Clinton clash on climate by Thomas Content,...
View ArticleBarack Obama is the first climate president
My how far we’ve come in less than eight years. We have seen happen what those of us in the climate and energy fields knew could happen. The US has become a world leader on climate change, dramatically...
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So fracking reduces carbon emissions, right?
Fracking, the process of horizontal drilling into shale layers with slickwater injection, hydraulic fracturing, and subsequent gas (and oil) extraction, has dramatically increased US natural gas...
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Paris climate agreement enters into force: international experts respond
Bill Hare, Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Harald Winkler, Professor and Director of the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town; Julia P G Jones, Professor...
View ArticleConservatives elected Trump; now they own climate change
Many of us in the United States are in deep shock and despair. The election of Donald Trump speaks of a country and a world that represents so many things that go against our deepest grains. However,...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Nov 6, 2016Opinion: Americans, if you care about the planet, vote Hillary Clinton...
View Article2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #47
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.Sun Nov 13, 2016Trump win opens way for China to take climate leadership role by Valerie...
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What President Trump means for the future of energy and climate
Mark Barteau, Director, University of Michigan Energy Institute, University of MichiganThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.President…Donald…Trump. For...
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