2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #29
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, July 11, 2021 through Sat, July 17, 2021
The following...
New resource: The Fact-Myth-Fallacy slide-deck
Many of you will already be familiar with the Fact-Myth-Fallacy structure of a successful debunking. For a refresher, John Cook's post about "Inoculation theory:...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #47
2020A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Nov 15, 2020 through Sat,...
Climate change: sea level rise could displace millions of people within two generations
Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol and Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University
This article is republished from...
What’s the carbon footprint of a wind turbine?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sara Peach
Dear Sara,
Wind turbines are an absolute joke. Has anyone actually figured out the amount of...
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #52
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What Biden and Democatic Senate can do on climate in their first 100 days
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Democrats now control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives for the first time in a decade,...
Scientists have detected an acceleration in sea level rise
Posted on 27 February 2018 by John Abraham
As humans emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, the planet warms, and over time consequences become more...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10, 2021
Systems Thinking
An article by by Stenzel et al highlights the Jenga-like nature of digging (inhaling?) our way out from beneath the cloud of CO2 we've...
Planetary health and ’12 years’ to act
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeffrey Kiehl
Life makes us wake up to needed changes.
A visit to the doctor’s office and accompanied...
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