NASA Drought Research Shows Value of Both Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
In Brief:
New NASA research is showing how drought in the western U.S. is expected to change in the future, providing stakeholders with crucial information...
NASA Finds 2021 Arctic Summer Sea Ice 12th Lowest on Record
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Book Review: Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe
In late 2013, my mother went into a hospice for the final time. Her illness had reached a stage where little more could be...
Can the economy afford NOT to fight climate change?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Those opposing a fast transition to renewable energy and other aggressive action to fight catastrophic climate change often...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, September 12, 2021 through Sat, September 18, 2021
The following...
Jennifer Whitmore on the Just Transition Bill
17 September 2021
It’s a big week – we’re back from a short stint of a holiday, the Dáil is back from its summer...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #37, 2021
Go with real guilt, or imaginatively hide?
This week's New Research includes a couple of interesting papers exploring the confused, noisy marketplace of ideas, volitions...
Toxic “forever” chemicals likely to be present in Ireland
15 September 2021
Toxic “forever
chemicals” are now likely to be commonly present in Ireland, according to new
analysis.
Polyflourinated
alkyl substances, otherwise known as PFAS, are...
Thinking is Power: How to do your own research
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort...
The hottest summer most Americans have ever lived through
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson
An 85-year-old record for summer heat set during the Dust Bowl has met its match....
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