Climate change and tornadoes: Any connection?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson
Climate change may be the existential threat of our lives, yet when it comes to...
Earth’s Magnetosphere: Protecting Our Planet from Harmful Space Energy
Among the four rocky planets in our solar system, you could say that Earth’s “magnetic” personality is the envy of her interplanetary neighbors.
Unlike Mercury,...
Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts
In Brief:
A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation.
Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, July 18, 2021 through Sat, July 24, 2021
The following...
What really happens to our unwanted clothes?
24 July 2021
Illegal dumping is
largely unaccepted in Ireland. Remember two years ago when that video of the
man attempting to dump a mattress in...
Cranky Uncle game now being translated
The Cranky Uncle game is now being translated into multiple languages, paving the way to building public resilience against misinformation across the world. So...
Climate Action Bill signed into law
23 July 2021
The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development
Bill 2021 has been signed by President Michael D. Higgins and has become law.
“Today...
Extreme heat slammed a climate similar to ours. So, could it happen here?
23 July 2021
Mia Jacobson was used to heat. Growing up in the tropical climate of Hawaii, they were accustomed to the discomfort summer...
How does climate change impact our homeless population?
22 July 2021
Homelessness
in Ireland is not a new topic. We have been tackling it for years and will
continue to do so. Homelessness is...
Supports needed to transform to sustainable agriculture, report finds
22 July 2021
A transformation and investment in Irish agriculture is necessary to
meet sustainable food system ambition, an Oxfam and Trócaire report found.
Published...
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