A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Solar Energy Largely Unscathed by Hurricane Florence’s Wind and Rain
North Carolina gets nearly 5 percent of its electricity from solar…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history (open access)
State of the Climate in 2017 (open access)
Temperature, precipitation, wind
The strengthening of Amazonian precipitation during the…
One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of…
Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed State Senator and US Senate candidate Kevin de León’s SB 100, which mandates that the state obtain all of its electricity from zero-carbon sources by 2045. That in itself was a big deal, but…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Paris Conundrum: How to Know How Much Carbon Is Being Emitted?
An industrial complex in Oberhausen, Germany in January 2017. LUKAS SCHULZE/GETTY…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Inconvenience vs. rationality. Reflections on different faces of climate contrarianism in Poland and Norway
A new, valid measure of climate change understanding: associations…
Global warming means truly global warming. The atmosphere, the oceans, and the ground are all warming. As a result, ice is melting, seas are rising, storms are getting more severe, and droughts are getting worse. But these things are not happening in isolation. The…
Donald Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accepts that humans are causing global warming and we need to take action to stop it. The problem is that he doesn’t trust the experts at EPA to do so and wants to erode…
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Rise for Climate: thousands march…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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A powerful current just miles from SC is changing. It could devastate the East Coast.
Ben Franklin and Timothy Folger’s…
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Climate change impacts
Mankind
Climate Change and Heat-Related Excess Mortality in the Eastern USA
Climate change impacts on peak building cooling energy demand in a coastal megacity (open access)
Flood…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne
An additional 290 million people could face malnutrition by 2050 if little is done to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, a study finds.
The increased presence of CO2 in…
In America today, it’s rare to see political leaders respond to a threat with an appropriate evidence-based policy solution. At the national level, more often we see actions that aggravate existing problems or create new ones. California – the country’s most populous…
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Calls to Action*...
Looking ahead...
Sat…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Most land-based ecosystems worldwide risk ‘major transformation’ due to climate change
Researchers compiled and evaluated pollen and plant-fossil records from nearly…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Effect of coupled global climate models sea surface temperature biases on simulated climate of the western United States (open access)
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Global bimodal precipitation seasonality: A…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief. Dr Andrew King is a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and Dr Markus Donat is a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales
As summer gets underway in the northern hemisphere, much of Europe has already…
As humans put more and more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth warms. And the warming is causing changes that might surprise us. Not only is the warming causing long-term trends in heat, sea level rise, ice loss, etc.;…
This is a re-post from ClimateSight
What exciting times we live in! The UK is stockpiling food and medicine as it charges willingly into a catastrophe of its own choosing. The next Australian prime minister is likely to be a man who has committed crimes against humanity. And America has…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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A World On Fire
To see the image on Worldview: https://go.nasa.gov/2BRck1Z
The world is on fire. Or so it appears in…
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Preliminary Evidence from Climate Science, Climate Policy, Astrophysics, and Public Opinion
Climate Policy
Simple Rules for Climate Policy…
Checking our Twitter stream on July 26, we were pleasantly surprised to notice that Jonathan Dean Coey had nominated Skeptical Science for the Sunshine Blogger Award.
What is the Sunshine Blogger Award?
The award is driven entirely by the community, passed…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
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Research Highlight: Climate Model Predicts Faster Warming for the North Atlantic Ocean
As aerosol emissions decline, heat uptake in the North…
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Climate change impacts
Climate change and future wildfire in the western USA: an ecological approach to non‐stationarity (open access)
Influence of uncertainties in burned area estimates on modeled wildland fire…
Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
A firefighter runs after trying to save a home in Lakeport, California, suffering its biggest fires ever. AP…
A new paper, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has received a lot of media attention. The attention is justified because the paper paints a very grim picture of the climate and what humans may be…
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…
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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…
