Coalition lauches to stop EU-Mercosur trade deal
16 March 2021
450 civil society organisations have launched a coalition to stop the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, warning that it would be detrimental to climate,...
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is now reaching levels 50% higher than when humanity began large-scale burning of fossil fuels during the industrial...
The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook
This blog post about The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook might seem a bit out of place here on Skeptical Science. So let us explain...
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15 March 2021
Given what the past year has brought, it almost boggles the mind to remember that thousands of people flooded the streets of...
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On January 21, 2021 a new paper (Williams et al. 2021) was published that claims that an energy system can...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Mar 7, 2021 through Sat, Mar 13, 2021
There's...
Q&A: What does China’s 14th ‘five year plan’ mean for climate change?
This week, at the annual “two sessions” political gathering in Beijing, the Chinese government approved a key policy document that will heavily influence the...
New study challenges finding that climate change will drive dryland expansion
A new study suggests that, contrary to previous research, climate change will not cause global drylands to expand.
The research, published in Nature Climate Change,...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10, 2021
Systems Thinking
An article by by Stenzel et al highlights the Jenga-like nature of digging (inhaling?) our way out from beneath the cloud of CO2 we've...
New report: U.S. dams, levees get D grades, need $115 billion in upgrades
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters, PhD
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America’s infrastructure a C- grade in...
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