Thinking is Power: Are you a Critical Thinker?
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...
Here’s what makes a new Amazon carbon study so unnerving
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson
The sixth major assessment of climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Catastrophic Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana with 150 mph winds
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson
Category 4 Hurricane Ida struck a catastrophic blow on Louisiana, making landfall...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #35
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, August 22, 2021 through Sat, August 28, 2021
The following...
What’s the story with data centres?
27 August 2021
They’ve been popping
up all over the country. Opposition has been mounting against them. But they
still are pretty mysterious and complicated to...
Why trying to prove yourself wrong is the key to being right
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...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #34, 2021
AMS State of the Climate in 2020: Pay Attention
Only a couple of weeks ago the IPCC released its AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis synthesis...
Protecting the Ozone Layer Also Protects Earth’s Ability to Sequester Carbon
Protecting the ozone layer also protects Earth’s vegetation and has prevented the planet from an additional 0.85 degrees Celsius of warming, according to new...
What’s the deal with methane?
25 August 2021
The IPCC report released a few weeks ago stated that strong, rapid and sustained
reductions in methane emissions are needed to limit...
NASA’s MISR Instrument Sees California Wildfire Smoke Plumes From Space
In Brief:
Smoke from several large wildfires burning in Northern California can be seen traveling miles into the atmosphere.
As of Aug. 24, wildfires in...
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