2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41
Story of the Week... Opinion of the Week... Legal Matters... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week including numerous articles about the IPPC's Special...
New research, October 1-7, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Understanding the abrupt climate change in the mid-1970s from a phase-space transform perspective
Temperature,...
Victims of Hurricane Michael voted for climate deniers
Floridians are staring down a very powerful Category 4 typhoon that is causing extensive damage. The high winds, heavy rains, and storm surge will cost billions of...
SkS Analogy 14 – Inertia and Inevitability
Tag Line
Inertia is your friend … until it isn’t.
Elevator Statement
Inertia delays the response … But for each CO2 level there is a guaranteed response...
The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial
A cartoon illustration of the Trump administration’s climate policy logic Illustration: John Cook
Several years ago, I wrote about the five stages of climate denial. To...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #40
Calls to Action... Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... SkS Highlights... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Quote of the...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #40
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
The Nihilism of Trump’s Climate Policy
The administration...
New research, September 24-30, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs
Not in...
How Arctic lakes accelerate permafrost carbon losses
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief. Dr Ingmar Nitze is a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI); Dr Guido Grosse is...
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