Climate change has ‘worsened’ North America’s pollen season
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2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #6
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 31, 2021 through Sat,...
Deadlines loom for Capitol Hill action on Trump-era climate issues
This commentary, authored by Gary Yohe, Henry Jacoby, Richard Richels and Benjamin Santer, was originally published on the Yale Climate Connections website on Jan...
Q&A: Could an environmental inspector’s criticisms accelerate China’s climate policies?
Last week, in a move that has shocked observers, China’s Central Environmental Inspection Team (CEIT) openly criticised the central government’s National Energy Administration (NEA)...
Marine Protected Areas – a low-down
4 February 2021
Last week, the Department of Housing published a report on expanding our Marine Protected Area (MPA) network here in Ireland.
Which, naturally, got...
Scientists sceptical of new bat study linking climate change to Covid-19 emergence
A new study suggests that climate change is enabling the evolution of new coronaviruses by creating “hotspots” for multiple bat species.
The study, published in...
Biden’s climate executive orders are a mini-Green New Deal
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Imagine a deployment of federal investments to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors including electricity, transportation,...
Guest post: How climate change threatens a Peruvian city with ‘glacial flood’
The worldwide retreat of mountain glaciers is one of the most visible impacts of climate change. In the wake of receding glaciers, thousands of...
NASA Satellites Help Quantify Forests’ Impacts on Global Carbon Budget
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