A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message
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When the hockey stick was first attacked…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
1. Pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C: a tale of turning around in no time? (open access)
2. Climate change and technology: examining opinion formation of geoengineering
3. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus:…
With global warming, we can make predictions and then take measurements to test those predictions. One prediction (a pretty obvious one) is that a warmer world will have less snow and ice. In particular, areas that have year-round ice and snow will…
Continued from Part 1
What they decline to understand
Thousands of climate scientists are working on all kinds of interesting subjects, from glaciology to oceanography to ecology to atmospheric physics. Some pseudo-skeptics don't understand that and seem to have no inkling of…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn
How close the world is to a catastrophic collapse of giant ocean…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change impacts
Mankind
1. Vulnerabilities and resilience of European power generation to 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming (open access)
"Results show that climate change has negative impacts on electricity production…
Lonnie Thompson, a climate scientist, was told by his doctor that he needed a heart transplant.
He denied it. “You’re crazy! I’ve been climbing the highest mountains in the world for…” he paused, mentally counted the decades.
Lonnie loved his…
Many of you will already be familiar with the Fact-Myth-Fallacy structure of a successful debunking. For a refresher, John Cook's post about "Inoculation theory: Using misinformation to fight misinformation" is a good primer on the topic.
As examples for how…
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Solar geoengineering ‘too…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
March is 3rd warmest on record, many contrasts
March 2018 was the third warmest on record, according to the European Centre…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
1. Consistency of climate change projections from multiple global and regional model intercomparison projects
2. Uncertainty in projected climate change arising from uncertain fossil-fuel emission factors (open access)
3. Skillful climate…
Gallup released its annual survey on American perceptions about global warming last week, and the results were a bit discouraging. While 85–90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that most scientists agree on this,…
Next week, about 14,000 scientists will meet in Vienna, Austria for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Skeptical Science will make an appearance in a few of the thousands of sessions held from April 9 to 13.
Here are…
We have delayed action for so long on handling climate change, we now can no longer can “will it happen?” Rather we have to ask “how bad will it be?” and “what can be done about it?” As our society…
Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Founder and President of the Geoversiv Foundation, and lead strategist in the Resilience Intel initiative.
Democracy is not a zero-sum game. Behaving as if it is degrades democratic process and our personal political sovereignty.
A…
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
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Stanford law and science experts discuss court case that could set precedent for climate change litigation
A closely watched federal trial…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
The figure is from paper #80.
Climate change mitigation
1. Unlikely pioneers: creative climate change policymaking in smaller U.S. cities
"I find that local leaders reframe climate change action as a…
After publishing my experiences talking to science 'dismissives' (or 'skeptics', or whatever you'd like to call them) and then participating in the excellent Denial101x course, I was invited to join the volunteer team at SkepticalScience last year.
But before all that,…
You may have noticed comments in several threads which seem to have come a bit out of the blue. We were wondering the same and found out that the comments are related to a climate change related class activitiy originating…
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Mailings to Teachers Highlight a Political Fight Over Climate Change in the Classroom
Last spring, science teachers across the nation began…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
The Figure is from paper #16.
Climate change impacts
Mankind
1. Inundation of a low-lying urban atoll island: Majuro, Marshall Islands
"The ocean-facing shorelines of Majuro experience frequent inundation caused…
This is a re-post from DeSmogUK by Mat Hope
It has been a heck of a few days in the spotlight for Cambridge Analytica — a ‘political consultancy’ that confesses it likes to operate in the shadows.
Revelations continue to emerge about its practices, including allegations…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert McSweeney
The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce…
In 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, which means that if it poses a threat to public health or welfare, the EPA must regulate it under the Clean Air Act. In 2009, the EPA…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne
The arduous journey that king penguins must make in order to hunt fish to bring back to their young could become even longer as the climate warms, research suggests.
The study…
Facing the reality of human-caused warming, we now look for ways to reduce the problem so that future generations will not inherit a disaster. So, what can we do now to help the future?
The easiest answer is to use…
