Skeptical Science New Research for Week #51, 2020
Policy dilution
Wang et al deliver a remarkable soup-to-nuts examination of adaptation policy as it pertains to increasing climate change and accompanying coastal inundation events....
Land Ecosystems Are Becoming Less Efficient at Absorbing Carbon Dioxide
Plants play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide they absorb during photosynthesis, the less carbon dioxide remains trapped in...
NASA Finds What a Glacier’s Slope Reveals About Greenland Ice Sheet Thinning
As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice thinning and sea-level...
Water Limitations in the Tropics Offset Carbon Uptake from Arctic Greening
More plants and longer growing seasons in the northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia to deeper shades of green. Some...
Guest post: How human activity threatens the world’s carbon-rich peatlands
Peatlands are ecosystems unlike any other. Perpetually saturated, their wetland soils are inhospitable to many plants and trees, yet they are rich in carbon.
But...
More CO2 in the atmosphere hurts key plants and crops more than it helps
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk
Take a look out the window and it’s easy to see how people are changing...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #51
Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review......
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Dec 13, 2020 through Sat,...
Joint Committee publish recommendations to strengthen Climate Bill
18 December 2020
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action has published their recommendations to substantially strengthen the Climate Bill across the board following weeks...
Emphasizing ‘opportunity’ to help bridge divide on climate action
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Berardelli
‘Opportunity’ through clean energy initiatives may be a key to bridging the divide and getting...
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