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16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Cheers 'Beginning of Great Changes'…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 10 through Sat, Feb 16, 2019
Editor's Pick
What we can learn about climate change from the Titanic
Kate Winslet…
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Climate change mitigation
Upscaling from the grassroots: potential aggregate carbon reduction from community-based initiatives in Europe
Climate change communication
An assessment of public perceptions of climate change risk in…
This is a re-post from Triple Crisis by Frank Ackerman. Second in a series of posts on climate policy. Find Part 1 here.
According to scientists, climate damages are deeply uncertain, but could be ominously large (see the previous post). Alternatively, according to…
In a ‘Breakfast’ interview with Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National, the Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor, made a number of statements which are either wrong or misleading. A record of the interview is available here.
1. The Minister claims that a…
This is a re-post from TripleCrisis by economist Frank Ackerman
First in a series of posts on climate policy.
The damages expected from climate change seem to get worse with each new study. Reports from the IPCC and the U.S. Global Change Research Project,…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 3 through Sat, Feb 10, 2019
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Seven take-aways from the Green New Deal launch
Sweeping in scope, an…
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Climate change impacts
Mankind
Historical Analysis of U.S. Tornado Fatalities (1808-2017): Population, Science and Technology (open access)
Climate Change and Psychology: Effects of Rapid Global Warming on Violence and Aggression…
In June 1988 a leading climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, presented the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with data showing that by burning fossil fuels humans had created a greenhouse effect, evidenced by global warming. Unless carbon dioxide (CO2)…
Two recently published peer-reviewed studies make clear that the planet’s oceans are continuing to set hottest-yet temperature records nearly every year and, secondly, that the rate of ocean warming is in virtual lockstep with what modern climate models have projected.…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 27 through Sat, Feb 2, 2019
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A surprising new picture of ocean circulation could have major consequences for…
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Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Addressing the relocation bias in a long temperature record by means of land cover assessment
Interannual Variability of Summer Surface Air Temperature over Central…
Recently, 626 organizations—mostly environmental groups, including 350.org and Greenpeace USA—sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to consider a number of principles when crafting climate legislation like a Green New Deal “to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).”…
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Teenage…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 20 through Sat, Jan 26, 2019
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The way we eat could doom us as a species. Here’s a…
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
The climate spiral demonstrates the power of sharing creative ideas (open access)
Local TV news viewer reactions to weathercasters reporting the local impacts of…
Tag Line
Evaporation is like a lottery. Lottery winners finance our storms.
Elevator Statement
Each day 10,000 people each put $100 into a million-dollar lottery where winner takes all. Because lottery winnings are taxed, the winner receives $600,000 and the…
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Climate Forecast: World Is “Sleepwalking…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 13 through Sat, Jan 19, 2019
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‘It’s like hell here’: Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C
Fears…
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Climate change impacts
Mankind
Mortality risk from heat stress expected to hit poorest nations the hardest
Migration as a human affair: Integrating individual stress thresholds into quantitative models of…
Before I read the book, I had already read a few articles about it, saw a youtube video, and listened to two podcasts. It was the last podcast, on NPR's new Stateimpact Pennsylvania Energy Explained, that triggered me to actually…
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Once derided, ways of adapting to climate change are gaining steam
Recognition is spreading…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 6 through Sat, Jan 12, 2019
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World's Oceans Are Warming Faster, Studies Show, Fueling Storms and Sea Rise…
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Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Spatial modelling of summer climate indices based on local climate zones: expected changes in the future climate of Brno, Czech Republic
Comparison of the…
Limiting global warming to less than the Paris Climate Agreement target of 2°C (3.6°F) hotter than pre-industrial temperatures will require a rapid global transition away from fossil fuels. That’s a point on which the scientific community strongly agrees.
If we…
Skeptical Science has been fighting misinformation about human-caused climate change since the website was launched in 2007. But with the rise in prevalence of fake news over the last few years, protecting truth and facts has become more important than ever.…
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Katharine Hayhoe: 'A thermometer is not liberal or conservative'
Katharine Hayhoe:…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Dec 31, 2018 through Sat, Jan 5, 2019
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A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely
But experts…
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Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Trend analysis of climate time series: A review of methods (open access)
Strong but intermittent spatial covariations in tropical land temperature
Intercomparison of long-term sea…
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2018 Was A Milestone Year For Climate Science…
