New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US and...
The social cost of carbon is a measure of the economic damages caused (via climate change) by each ton of carbon pollution that we...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in...
New research, September 17-23, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change impacts
Mankind
Bayesian estimates for the mapping of dengue hotspots and estimation of the...
New research shows the world’s ice is doing something not seen before
In this warming world, some parts of the planet are warming much faster than others. The warming is causing large ice bodies to start...
Retraction of Florides et al. (2013)
About a year ago I wrote about my dealings with a paper by Florides et al. in a four part article here at SkS...
New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere by around mid-century. Since the late 1800s scientists have been...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Solar Energy Largely Unscathed by Hurricane Florence’s...
New research, September 10-16, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history (open access)
State of the Climate...
Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings
One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government...
California plans to show the world how to meet the Paris climate target
Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed State Senator and US Senate candidate Kevin de León’s SB 100, which mandates that the state obtain all...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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In our efforts to save animals at risk of extinction, we've saved some extraordinary places as well.
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