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The Guardian editors recently decided to discontinue their Science and Environment blog networks.  This is the story of Climate Consensus - the 97%. Way back...

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2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week including,,,  Editor's Pick They Know Seas Are Rising, but...

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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Climate change communication From climates multiple to climate singular: Maintaining policy-relevance in the...

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This is a re-post from ClimateSight I’m a climate scientist, and I don’t worry about climate change very much. I think about it every day, but...

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week including,,,  Editor's Pick Assessing the Global Climate in September...

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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts  Mankind Climate change and summer thermal comfort in China Built-up area and population density:...

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Tag Line Even on a hot day, as long as your glass of tea has ice it is a nice, cool drink. Only when the...

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