Planet3.0 Blogs

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…

CNN: “To get attention, you have to build tall,” said Øystein Elgsaas, a partner at the architecture practice behind the record-breaking tower, Voll Arkitekter, in a video call. “And when you have the world’s tallest building made of timber, everybody…

Eagle Island Ice Cap, Antarctica in Landsat images from Feb. 4, 2020 and Feb. 13, 2020.  Point E indicates an are area of snow/firn that is saturated with meltwater. Point A and B indicate locations where the amount of bare…

Two pieces in the Washington Post reference impacts of climate anxiety on young people, and how we are dealing, or not dealing with it. Long but worthwhile reads – I’m excerpting here. Washington Post: The nexus between climate change and…

Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review...  Story of the Week... Iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C., breaks off Pine Island glacier in…

Always plan for the worst-case hypothesis!    The four horsemen of the apocalypse by Albrecht Durer (1498): famine, plague, war, and death itself. For sure, the ancients understood that collapses come from a combination of several different factors. It is…

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A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 9, 2020 through Sat, Feb 15, 2020 Editor's Pick ANALYSIS-Climate change opens up 'frontier' farmland, but at what cost…

New video coming that has bearing on this – but there are increasing questions about the solvency of the global oil industry. The paranoid “peak oil” story of the early 2000s turned out to be overblown, but the new dynamic…

University of New South Wales: Mass melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was a major cause of high sea levels during a period known as the Last Interglacial (129,000-116,000 years ago), an international team of scientists led by UNSW’s…

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A look at climate change’s threat to one of the pillars of the banking system – home mortgages and insurance.…

Say What? New York Times: The British oil giant BP set the most ambitious climate change goal of any major oil company on Wednesday, saying that it aimed to eliminate or offset by 2050 all of the planet-warming emissions from…

2 degrees above 20th Century average.…

Backwards day in Crazy town – “Free marketers” at it again. Casper Star Tribune: Wyoming lawmakers proposed a bill this week that could penalize utility companies for using renewable energy sources to supply electricity to ratepayers. Sponsored by the Senate…

Are climate scientists criminals?There was a time, not long ago, when in the West we were proud of our scientific achievements, our rationality, our approach to knowledge. Maybe it was a little overstated, but there was something good in the…

Guardian: Something you might have missed amid all the horserace and app-failure coverage of the Iowa caucuses: a deep discussion took place over the past year about the climate crisis and agriculture that could change the way our food system…

Jennifer Marohasy. Remember that name, especially if you’re Australian. In a recent blog post she decides to name names: It is not disputed that Blair Trewin under the supervision of David Jones (both working at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology)…

94 Articles Physical science of global warming & effects Energy budget constraints on historical radiative forcing Increased subglacial sediment discharge in a warming climate: consideration of ice dynamics, glacial erosion and fluvial sediment transport The empirical basis for modelling glacial…

Yet another entrant in the EV cyber trucking sweepstakes.The Nikola pickups feature hybrid battery/fuel cell power plants, with some eye-popping, if real, performance claims.. The Verge: Nikola Corporation, an Arizona-based startup that’s working on zero-emission big rigs, just announced that…

From REMA Landsat images from Feb. 2016 and Oct. 2019 indicating the front of the Cugnot Ice Piedmont (CP)  and Broad Valley (BV) ice fronts in Eyrie Bay.  Point A, B, and C indicate specific bedrock knobs near the ice…

Lately there has been a great deal of misinformation regarding the origins and purpose of Skeptical Science.  As John Cook wrote nearly a decade ago, Skeptical Science is primarily a website that debunks climate misinformation with peer-reviewed science.  Despite the ever-worsening impacts…

Digging deeper on Australia’s future. I spoke to more experts for insight, including Linden Ashcroft of University of Melbourne, weather guru Dr. Jeff Masters, and Jonathan Overpeck at the University of Michigan.…

SBS (Australian news): NSW’s coast has copped “extraordinarily” high amounts of rainfall with Sydney recording its heaviest drenching in up to three decades  – but the deluge is not yet over, with forecasters warning there’s more to come. The rain…

Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Australian smoke plume sets records…

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Just as I thought I was out the ClimateBall Gods pull me back in. The “but RCP” flythe club got the best of me. For the time lost I found talking points for my Bingo. More on this project in…

Deutsche Welle documentary in English, 25 minutes, worth your time to at least scan through. In particular, toward the end, – young climate activists steering a popular movement to change course, inspiring images.…

While Australia has been getting some heavy rain, which is damping down fires, but raising new hazards – Aussie PM Scott Morrison went on the ABC Today Show to complain about being “bullied” by mean greenies from “inner cities” about…

A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 2, 2020 through Sat, Feb 8, 2020 Editor's Pick New Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry's Climate Destruction Also…