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...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5, 2020
More Thwaites
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Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler
As one result of modern farming practices that strip organic matter from the ground, between...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #5
Story of the Week... Opinion of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 26, 2020 through...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4, 2020
Suggested suitable pairings
The US EPA has just announced revised regulations for wetlands maintenance. Among other backward effects the freshly degraded rules will allow land...
With the En-ROADS climate simulator, you can build your own solutions to global warming
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Killer hurricanes, devastating wildfires, melting glaciers, and sunny-day flooding in more and more coastal areas around the world...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #4
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 19, 2020 through...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #3, 2020
Biography of a policy metric
Bård Lahn performs a sweeping literature review to present the history of our notion of a "global carbon budget" and how...
How did climate change get so controversial?
An excerpt from the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change, released Feb 25.
Our human brain is poorly equipped to deal with a threat like climate change....
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