Guest post: The underappreciated influence of the tropics on the ‘jet stream’

Over the past decade or so, a scientific debate has emerged around whether rapid Arctic warming could be affecting extreme weather in the mid-latitudes....

CSLDF publishes guides to scientific integrity at federal agencies

This is a re-post from the CSLDF blog The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund has launched a series of guides to scientific integrity at nine federal...

Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew less than feared in 2019

With the novel coronavirus outbreak jamming the attention of news media and policymakers alike since mid-January, last year seems like a very long time...

3,600 scientists call for CAP overhaul to protect nature

March 9th, 2020 Thousands of European scientists have declared that the European Commission’s proposals for the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must...

2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #10

Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Reviews... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of...

2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10

A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Mar 1, 2020 through...

NASA Satellite Offers Urban Carbon Dioxide Insights

A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world provides the first direct, satellite-based evidence that as a...

EPA to hold oral hearing on Irish Cement emissions licence

March 6th, 2020 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold an oral hearing to re-evaluate its decision to grant an industrial emissions licence to Irish Cement to...

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