Skeptical Science New Research for Week #12, 2021
$62,000,000,000 of simulated "income"
Dealing with climate change as a society and in a socially cooperative fashion has proven uniquely difficult among historical collisions of...
Climate neutrality by 2050 legally binding in redrafted Climate Bill
23 March 2021
A climate neutral Ireland by mid-century is legally binding in the newest draft of the Climate Bill.
The revised Bill was approved by...
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Climate models show time is running out for the world to cut emissions and avert catastrophic climate change,...
NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force
As a leading agency observing and understanding environmental changes on Earth, NASA has joined the National Climate Task Force. President Joe Biden issued an...
Guest post: How climate change drove food insecurity in the 2007 Lesotho drought
Lesotho is one of the least developed countries in southern Africa and has a precarious food security balance. Almost all of its main staple...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #11
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Mar 14, 2021 through Sat, Mar 20, 2021
Several...
In-depth Q&A: How the UK plans to cut industrial emissions by two-thirds
Factories and industrial hubs across the UK should cut their emissions by two-thirds over the next 15 years under the government’s new plan for...
Climate strikers demand “No More Empty Promises” from world leaders
19 March 2021
Climate strikers the world over demanded their governments take immediate and concrete action on the climate crisis today, taking to both the...
Analysis: UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. This means the UK is now...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #11, 2021
Fully conscious, conscientious solar geoengineering
The steady flow of research on carbon sources, sinks and flux is reflective of the tight tolerable "budget" for CO2 in...
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