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Remember typewriters? Film in cameras? Xerox? AOL? Exxon? Market Watch via Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: Even Wall Street firms are urging clients to dump energy stocks While the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the…

Renewables Now: February 25 (Renewables Now) – The average offshore wind load factors during the month of January were at their highest since 2015, with older parks, built before 2016, reaching 52% and newer ones going even higher to 55%.…

The Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change book is now available! The book uses cartoons, humor, and critical thinking to expose how and why some people reject climate science. It's now available for sale on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other book outlets.…

CNN: Take a moment to cherish your plants and appreciate the animals you see around you.In 50 years, a third of them may no longer exist.Using data from surveys that studied 538 animals, insects and plants from 581 sites across…

Science denying kiddie tormentor Ken Cuccinelli to head Trumpian Corona virus response.…

Consumers Energy and its CEO Patti Poppe were the subject of a recent “This is Not Cool” video (above). I’ve told people that what we see happening is technology and economics pushing major power generators in an ever more urgent…

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Cap and trade is on its way to the Senate floor in Oregon again — and Republicans are heading for the exits. In a tense hearing Monday morning, the Oregon Legislature’s budget committee passed out Senate Bill…

Fascinating science stuff. Newbies may want a primer on Thwaites and West Antarctica, below.…

Wind Turbines, he tells us, cause cancer.He loves “beautiful coal”. And while historically climate denying Republicans polish their pro-nuke credentials as part of edging toward reality, Trump suddenly grows concern about nuclear waste…. New York Times: Before the 2018 midterm…

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Story of the Week... Opinion of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Climate change leads to more violence against women,…

Time: $300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. It’s the gross domestic product of Chile, or…

 This post is about how Italy is reacting to the diffusion of the COVID-19 epidemics that arrived during the past few days in the Northern regions of the country. Among other effects, it generated a wave of hate on social…

The new book about Contemporary Climate Change Debates, that I discussed in this post, includes a debate about whether or not ‘tipping point[s]’ [are] helpful for describing and communicating possible climate futures? James Annan suggests that the answer is “no”,…

A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 16, 2020 through Sat, Feb 22, 2020 Editor's Pick JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human…

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Guest post by Federico TabelliniIn this age dominated by the here and now, discussing the future is a rare thing. When we do discuss it, most of the time it is to point out how badly things could go in…

Amazon will be fielding 100,000 Electric delivery trucks in the next few years.…

I suspect most readers here will have seen reports on new research showing that atmospheric methane concentrations are increasing, and that oil and gas extraction, not burps from the arctic, are a much larger driver than previously thought. New York…

Good news. It’s mostly us that is killing ourselves. And we can stop that. Can’t we? (also backs up my recent videos on the “methane bomb” scare) Scripps Institute – UC San Diego: A long-feared scenario in which global warming…

ThinkProgress: A new scientific report finds human behaviors are driving the extinction of non-human species at a rate so severe that the subsequent disappearance of life will soon be a threat to human health and prosperity. Habitat destruction on land,…

As planet warms, polluters feel the market’s heat. BP: Our ambition is to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner. And to help the world get to net zero. This will mean tackling around 415 million tonnes of…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bruce Lieberman CARLSBAD, CA. – When it comes to paying the electric bill, most people don’t give it a second thought – it’s something that in effect is “baked in.” But…

American Geophysical Union: SAN DIEGO—Cameras attached to a rare species of Antarctic whale are giving scientists an unprecedented view of how the whales survive in their sea ice habitat, according to new research presented here at the Ocean Sciences Meeting…

Boydell Glacier terminates at the island adjacent to Point A.  The accumulation zone between Point A, B and C is on January 12, 2020 has limited gray area indicating bare firn.  By Feb. 13 there is considerable cobalt blue snow/firn…

"You're going to need a longer runway" Gratton et al explore the ongoing effects of upward-creeping temperatures on aviation in Greece in the period since 1955 at a range of airports in that country. For longer runways impacts are measurable but…

Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker: NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an apparently successful attempt to get under the skin of Donald Trump, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has purchased Greenland from Denmark. In an official statement released…

Master class in simple, clean, finger style guitar.…

The new year’s most important story so far –after a decade of creep, a landslide of institutional funding for climate mitigation and renewables.…

Verge: Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he would be committing $10 billion to fight climate change through a new fund called the Bezos Earth Fund. He announced new fund in a post on Instagram. Bezos said that the…