Q&A: Will EU Common Agricultural Policy reforms help tackle climate change?
The EU has come to the end of a three-year effort to reform its controversial farming subsidy programme, known as the Common Agricultural Policy...
Guest post: How attribution can fill the evidence ‘gap’ in climate litigation
In November 2015, a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, launched a pioneering bid for climate justice in a German court more...
SkS Analogy 22 – Energy SeaSaw: Part III
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Illustrating what causes complex temperature patterns.
Climate Science
What causes the complicated patterns in measured temperature anomalies from year to year? Why is there so...
Guest post: Emissions should fall ‘twice as fast’ in case negative emissions fail
Many model pathways designed to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement rely heavily on large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also known as “negative...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #26
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, June 20, 2021 through Sat, June 26, 2021
The following...
Extinction Rebellion and farmers protest against upcoming CAP
25 June 2021
Extinction Rebellion and farmers joined forces outside the Department of Agriculture today and urged the Government to ensure a Just Transition for...
What’s going on with Shannon LNG?
25 June 2021
Well – it’s been quite a news week for all things LNG-related.
In case you missed it, it looks like the developers of...
Study: Extreme weather may not lead to increased support for climate action
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jennifer Marlon
For some Americans, the signs of global warming are everywhere. In 2020 alone, wildfires broke...
China Briefing, 24 June 2021: Hydrogen-fuelled vehicles; ETS launch date; Iron and steel emissions
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...
Climate change has driven 16% drop in ‘snow meltwater’ from Asia’s high mountains
Climate change is reducing the supply of water from melting snow to many of the largest rivers in Asia, threatening the water security of...
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