A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Scientists mock Trump’s tweet on wildfires as ‘comedically ill-informed’ and ‘unmitigated crap’
Trump's climate denial is "a crime against the planet"…
The whole story in a table....
The graphic below (click on it for a large version) is adapted from a table in the supporting information from a newly published paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Trajectories…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Optimal Ranking Regime Analysis of U.S. Summer Temperature and Degree-Days: 1895-2015
Detectable Impacts of the Past Half‐Degree Global Warming on Summertime Hot Extremes in…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk
Credit: Image by Karin Kirk.
Staircase wit. L’esprit de l’escalier. It’s the way the perfect response in an uncomfortable conversation comes cruelly late, occurring only after the crux moment has long since…
The Arctic is one of the “canaries in the coal mine” for climate change. Long ago, scientists predicted it would warm quicker than other parts of the planet, and they were right. Currently, the Arctic is among the fastest-warming places…
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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143-mph 'fire tornado' that cut a path of destruction is an ominous sign of the future
A high-tension power transmission…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Place, proximity, and perceived harm: extreme weather events and views about climate change
Teaching climate change in middle schools and high schools: investigating…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeney
Emissions of CO2 and methane from wetlands and thawing permafrost as the climate warms could cut the “carbon budget” for the Paris Agreement temperature limits by around five years, a new…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief
A rapid assessment by scientists of the ongoing heatwave across northern Europe this summer has found that human-caused climate change made it as much as five times more likely to have occurred.
The preliminary analysis, by…
Imagine that instead of taxing cigarettes, America subsidized the tobacco industry in order to make each pack of smokes cheaper.
A report from Oil Change International (OCI) investigated American energy industry subsidies and found that in 2015–2016, the federal government provided $14.7bn…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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How Did the End of the World Become Old News?
The fire this time (in Sweden). Photo: Mats Andersson/AFP/Getty Images…
Since starting Skeptical Science in 2007, I've been researching how to counter misinformation. One answer is inoculation - you can neutralize misinformation by exposing people to a "weak form of misinformation" (e.g., explain the techniques used to mislead). But how do…
This is a guest post from Lauren Kurtz of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF).
We at the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) wanted to share what we’ve been up to in 2018 and ask for your help raising $100K…
We know that humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. It used to be that “climate change” mostly referred to increasing temperatures near the Earth’s surface, but increasingly, climate change has come to mean so much more. It means warming…
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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There Is No Escape for Corals
Deep waters have long been seen as potential refuges for endangered corals, but a new…
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on an anti-carbon tax Resolution. The Resolution was introduced by Steve Scalise (R-LA) with essentially the same language as he introduced in 2013 and 2016.
On those past versions, every Republican House member voted against carbon taxes. This time,…
Ocean Temperature – Part 2
We are coming back to the topic of sea-surface temperature measurements, which we have taken on in the article “Ocean Temperature – Part 1”. This time, we will discuss issues concerning satellite measurements.
Pictet Mirrors…
Eleven teams participated in a recent Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) project, examining the economic and environmental impacts of a carbon tax. The studies included “revenue recycling,” in which the funds generated from a carbon tax are returned to taxpayers either…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Heat Records Falling Around the World in 2018
Above: A sampling of all-time high temperatures reported around the world in 2018…
Ocean waters are rising because of global warming. They are rising for two reasons. First, and perhaps most obvious, ice is melting. There is a tremendous amount of ice locked away in Greenland, Antarctica, and in glaciers. As the world warms,…
How have we measured the temperature of the ocean’s upper layer in the last 150 years? How does understanding physical processes and observational errors help to standardise climate data and understand climate change?
Why do we measure ocean temperature?
Figure…
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Story of the Week...
Global warming may be twice what climate models predict…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Climate change will get a whole lot worse before it gets better, according to game theory
A firefighter douses flames…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change impacts
Mankind
Quantifying transnational climate impact exposure: New perspectives on the global distribution of climate risk
The effects of increasing surface reflectivity on heat-related mortality in Greater…
Taking action on climate is about a lot more than our energy economy. Climate disruption is the leading threat to our built environment, an accelerant of armed conflict, and a leading cause of mass migration. Its effects intensify and prolong storms,…
This is a re-post from ClimateSight
Climate change will increase ice shelf melt rates around Antarctica. That’s the not-very-surprising conclusion of my latest modelling study, done in collaboration with both Australian and German researchers, which was just published in Journal of Climate.…
The Republican Party is rotting away. The problem is that GOP policies just aren’t popular. Most Americans unsurprisingly oppose climate denial, tax cuts for the wealthy, and putting children (including toddlers) in concentration camps, for example.
The Republican Party has thus far…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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A city in Oman just posted the world’s hottest low temperature ever recorded: 109 degrees
Above: MODIS satellite image from June…
