Greens: Divided on ‘clean’ energy? Or closer than they appear?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
Several media outlets over the past week or so have run stories about environmental groups setting up a...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #20, 2021
Deep dive into shady finances of climate misinformers
Skeptical Science is dedicated to combating malformed and especially fake "skepticism" about climate science, so it's hardly...
A New Guide to the First Amendment for Scientists
This is a re-post from the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
Today we published A Pocket Guide for Scientists: The First Amendment to help scientists understand how this...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #20
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 9, 2021 through Sat, May 15, 2021
This week...
China’s 2060 climate pledge is ‘largely consistent’ with 1.5C goal, study finds
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Xiaoying You
New research has found that China’s pledge to achieve “carbon neutrality” before 2060 is “largely consistent”...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #19, 2021
Putting a price tag on upcoming atmospheric rivers
The Clausius-Clapeyron equation isn't complicated— once somebody has thought of the concept and mathematically tamed it. However, the deceptively...
Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by:
Dr Robert M. DeConto, professor of geosciences and co-director of the School of Earth and Sustainability at the University...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 2, 2021 through Sat, May 8, 2021
In no...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #18, 2021
Bringing more certainty to uncertainty communications
For the armchair dilettante observer of scientific progress a solid literature review is something akin to going to Disneyland. It's...
#PLURV – the German #FLICC – getting popular in Germany
Longtime readers of what we are up to at Skeptical Science will be well aware of the FLICC taxonomy first suggested by Mark Hoofnagle in...
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