Ireland’s solar industry: From a bang to a whimper

August 30th, 2017 The Solar Energy Future conference in Cork at the start of 2016 was a roaring success. The event brought together over 350 interested...

The bond market defies the doomsters

People keep calling the bond market a bubble. But it hasn’t popped yet

Residential Solar Power Offers Win-Win, says leading climate policy expert

August 30th, 2017 The Government’s long-awaited new renewable energy scheme must include support for household solar power, says one of Ireland’s leading climate policy analysts. A...

Climate adaptation cash is failing to reach the poorest, here’s how to fix it

The recent rejection of two major adaptation projects by the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from Bangladesh and Ethiopia has caused the board...

New research, August 21-27, 2017

Posted on 30 August 2017 by Ari Jokimäki About five years ago, Skeptical Science had a weekly feature called "new research from last week" which...

US state department to abolish climate change envoy

Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has informed Congress that the US will no longer have a special envoy for climate change, the official that has...

Media reaction: Hurricane Harvey and climate change

Hurricane Harvey continues to rock the southern US, where at least nine people have died after unprecedented flooding. The events around Houston, Texas have sparked early...

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