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...
Earth’s oceans are routinely breaking heat records
Two recently published peer-reviewed studies make clear that the planet’s oceans are continuing to set hottest-yet temperature records nearly every year and, secondly, that...
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #5
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2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 27 through Sat, Feb...
New research, January 21-27, 2019
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Addressing the relocation bias in a long temperature record by means...
A Green New Deal must not sabotage climate goals
Recently, 626 organizations—mostly environmental groups, including 350.org and Greenpeace USA—sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to consider a number of principles when crafting climate legislation...
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #4
Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... SkS in the News... Coming Soon on SkS......
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #4
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 20 through Sat, Jan...
New research, January 14-20, 2019
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
The climate spiral demonstrates the power of sharing creative ideas (open...
SkS Analogy 17 – Lotteries, evaporation, and superstorms
Tag Line
Evaporation is like a lottery. Lottery winners finance our storms.
Elevator Statement
Each day 10,000 people each put $100 into a million-dollar lottery where winner...
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