Environmental Pillar supports fracking ban in submission to government
The Environmental Pillar supports the Bill – The Prohibition of Extraction and Exploration of Onshore Petroleum 2016, and recommends that the Committee pass this...
EU climate efforts not living up to Paris promises, says NGO
Report ranking national efforts finds many European nations are working against efforts to increase ambition to act on climate change
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Climate Bill is “fatally weak” in its current form
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If passed as is, the Climate Bill will prove to be fatally weak and will undermine this year’s landmark Supreme Court judgment,...
Supreme Court rules in favour of Climate Case Ireland
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In a historic ruling, Friends of the Irish Environment have won their case against the State as the Supreme Court has ruled in...
The Pence-Harris Showdown Came up Well Short of an Actual ‘Debate’ on Climate Change
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World risks hitting 1.5 degree temperature threshold in coming 5 years
10 July 2020
Global temperatures could exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2024, according to World Meteorological Organization projections.
Between 2020 and 2024 there...
NASA’s Role in Studying Earth’s Atmosphere
Studying Earth’s atmospheric composition is a key focus area for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and Earth Science Division. NASA’s Atmospheric Composition focus area conducts...
Our Climate Bill checklist, revisited
9 October 2020
It’s here. It’s in our (virtual) hands – the long-awaited, much-anticipated, sure-to-be-debated Climate Bill.
Last week, we put together a checklist of some...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Update #23
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 30, 2021 through Sat, June 6, 2021
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