2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, July 4, 2021 through Sat, July 10, 2021
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Halfway point in this year’s run of Denial101x – 5 more months to go!
This year's self-paced run of our free online course, Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, started on February 9, 2021 and it will be...
Update on Just Transition in the Midlands published
9 July 2021
An update on the implementation of the Just Transition programme for the Midlands was published yesterday from the Just Transition Commissioner...
NASA’s AIRS Tracks Record-Breaking Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest
The AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite collected temperature readings in the atmosphere and at the surface during an unprecedented heat wave in the...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #27, 2021
Zigzagging to zero: Wandel Sea old ice
A plethora of previous research and observation has pointed to an ultimate demise of multi-year ice in the...
China Briefing, 8 July 2021: Xi invited to COP26; ‘Largest’ coal-chemical project suspended; New...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past seven days.
This...
Where do the Dublin Bay South candidates stand on climate & biodiversity?
8 July 2021
After weeks of campaigning and coverage, voters of the Dublin Bay South constituency are heading to the polls today.
Housing, the ongoing pandemic...
Pacific north-west heatwave shows climate is heading into ‘uncharted territory’
The deadly heatwave that hit north-western US and Canada in late June would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused global warming, a new “rapid-attribution”...
Campaigners call for MPAs before the Dáil
7 July 2021
Minister of State Malcolm Noonan met with protesters today outside the Dáil who are demanding the State act urgently on Marine Protected...
Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s
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In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by...
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