What Biden and Democatic Senate can do on climate in their first 100 days
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Democrats now control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives for the first time in a decade,...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #3, 2021
Weather reporting turns into climate recording
Leading a quartet of researchers, Chunlüe Zhou produces a tour de force of improved and more productive data exploitation in the...
Lake heatwaves will be ‘hotter and longer’ by the end of the century
Climate change is causing “lake heatwaves” to become more frequent, intense and long-lasting, a new study warns.
The research, published in Nature, finds that lake...
Gillett et al. (2021) global warming attribution study
The Human vs. Natural Contributions to Global Warming chart on the Skeptical Science Graphics Page has been updated to include the study discussed below
A new study published...
Guest post: Refining the remaining 1.5C ‘carbon budget’
The remaining “carbon budget” specifies the maximum amount of CO2 that may be emitted to stabilise warming at a particular level – such as...
Complaint lodged against ESB over Colombian coal imports
19 January 2021
A formal complaint against the ESB has been lodged today in regards to imported coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.
Filed by...
EU must redouble climate finance efforts, new report finds
18 January 2021
Modest increases in EU climate finance in recent years are insufficient and the bloc must redouble its efforts, according to a new...
Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?
Last month, four years after the Brexit referendum, the UK and the EU agreed on a trade deal just days before the 31 December...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #3
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 10, 2021 through Sat,...
Guest post: How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world
This article, guest authored by Dr Michael Jakob, Dr Hauke Ward & Dr Jan C Stecke, was originally published on the Carbon Brief website...
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