Is the grid ready for electric vehicles?

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jan Ellen Spiegel Some Americans appear increasingly ready to give up their gas cars for electric vehicles....

2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick A World On Fire    To see the image...

Humans are pushing the Earth closer to a climate cliff

A new paper, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has received a lot of media attention. The attention is justified...

CliFi – A new way to talk about climate change

Posted on 18 October 2017 by John Abraham Cli-Fi refers to “climate fiction;” it is a term coined by journalist Dan Bloom. These are fictional...

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #35, 2021

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EV’s: Crucial to Reducing CO2 Emissions

In June 1988 a leading climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, presented the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with data showing that...

Climate change is increasing flood risks in Europe

Posted on 8 February 2018 by John Abraham As humans continue to emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the world continues to warm. We see...

New research, October 30 – November 5, 2017

Posted on 10 November 2017 by Ari Jokimäki A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. The graph is from paper #80. Climate change 1. Observed...

Saharan dust storm expected to cause dangerous air pollution in U.S. this week

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters A massive dust storm formed over the Sahara Desert last week and invaded the Caribbean...

Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second

This is a re-post from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The heat absorbed in Earth’s oceans reached a new record in 2019, found a recent study published...

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