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Climate Adam: Battlefield Earth - How War Fuels Climate Catastrophe - Skeptical Science (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
War, conflict and climate change are tearing apart lives across the world. But these aren't separate harms - they're intricately connected. Wars and militaries drive emissions in myriad ways, soak up vital cash, and derail climate deals. So, whether it's the Israel-Hamas conflict or the invasion of Ukraine, war and conflict are fuelling the changes to our climate.
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At a glance - Has the greenhouse effect been falsified? - Skeptical Science (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "Has the greenhouse effect been falsified?". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
Did you know that in the late 1700s, astronomers calculated the Earth-Sun distance to within 3% of the correct average value of ... Read more ...
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Most people don’t realize how much progress we’ve made on climate change - Skeptical Science (Dec 4) |
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Dec 4 · The year was 2015. ‘Uptown Funk’ with Bruno Mars was at the top of the music charts. Jurassic World was the most popular new movie in theaters. And decades of futility in international climate negotiations was about to come to an end in Paris.
After years of inaction despite constant warnings from climate scientists, hopes had been high for a breakthrough in climate agreements in 2009, leading up to the U.N. summit — known as COP15 — in Copenhagen.
But just a few weeks before that event began, a hacker broke into a server at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and released a tranche of climate scientists’ stolen ... Read more ...
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Suggested sessions of EGU24 to submit abstracts to - Skeptical Science (Dec 1) |
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Dec 1 · Like earlier this year, members from our team will be involved with next year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The conference will take place on premise in Vienna as well as online from April 14 to 19, 2024. The session catalog has been available since November 1 and abstracts can be submitted until January 10, 2024 at 13:00 CET. Below, you'll find information about three sessions we think are worthwhile to get involved with.
Session EOS1.6 looks to be right up our alley as it's about "Science vs. disinformation: recognizing, addressing and tackling fake news to foster science credibility and public awareness." This session is being organized by ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #47 2023 - Skeptical Science (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · From this week's government/NGO section, longitudinal data is gold and Leisorowitz, Maibachi et al. continue to mine ore from the US public with Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2023:
Drawing on a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, the authors describe how registered voters view a variety of domestic climate and energy policies. The survey was fielded from October 20 – 26, 2023. For example, 57% of registered voters would prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming. This includes 95% of liberal Democrats, 86% of moderate/conservative Democrats, and 46% of liberal/moderate Republicans, ... Read more ...
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How climate change is affecting every U.S. region - Skeptical Science (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · Climate change is making the weather weird in every region of the United States.
That’s a key takeaway of the new fifth National Climate Assessment, a sweeping, U.S.-focused report in which top climate scientists summarize the latest research on climate change science, impacts, and solutions.
As the climate warms, most of the Eastern United States is becoming wetter and thus faces increased flood risks. At the same time, the Western states are mostly becoming drier, the risk of droughts and wildfires is rising.
The National Climate Assessment divides the country into 10 regions and identifies the key threats in each one.
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At a glance - Evidence for global warming - Skeptical Science (Nov 28) |
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Nov 28 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "Evidence for global warming". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
It's now 14 years since Sarah Palin was on the record as having provided the above quote, at a logging conference in California. In that time, ... Read more ...
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48 - Skeptical Science (Nov 26) |
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Nov 26 · Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more than double last decade’s annual average
Just above this column on the weather page of the Guardian’s print edition is the daily atmospheric carbon dioxide readings from Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the acid test of how the world is succeeding in combating climate change. A week before the 28th annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention opens in oil-rich Dubai, it makes depressing reading.
At the time of writing it is 422.36 parts per million. That is 5.06ppm more than the same day last year. That rise in 12 months is probably the largest ever recorded – more than ... Read more ...
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Disinformation campaigns are undermining democracy. Here’s how we can fight back - Skeptical Science (Nov 24) |
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Nov 24 · Misinformation is debated everywhere and has justifiably sparked concerns. It can polarise the public, reduce health-protective behaviours such as mask wearing and vaccination, and erode trust in science. Much of misinformation is spread not by accident but as part of organised political campaigns, in which case we refer to it as disinformation.
But there is a more fundamental, subversive damage arising from misinformation and disinformation that is discussed less often.
It undermines democracy itself. In a recent paper published in Current Opinion in Psychology, we highlight two important aspects of democracy that disinformation works to erode.
The first of the ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #47 2023 - Skeptical Science (Nov 23) |
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Nov 23 · How warped are we by fossil fuel dependency? Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 35-40 million cubic meters per day of Russian natural gas are piped across Ukraine for European consumption every single day, right now. In order to secure European cooperation against Russian aggression, Ukraine must help to finance its own destruction at the hands of one of the world's largest petro-kleptocracies, assisting its attacker in marketing what has become a transcendently toxic geopolitical hazard. Publishing in Energy Policy, Ah-Voun, Chyong & Li describe how this tortuously ironic knot might be unraveled, in Europe's energy security: From Russian dependence to renewable reliance. People ... Read more ...
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How climate change is affecting every U.S. region - Skeptical Science (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · Climate change is making the weather weird in every region of the United States.
That’s a key takeaway of the new fifth National Climate Assessment, a sweeping, U.S.-focused report in which top climate scientists summarize the latest research on climate change science, impacts, and solutions.
As the climate warms, most of the Eastern United States is becoming wetter and thus faces increased flood risks. At the same time, the Western states are mostly becoming drier, the risk of droughts and wildfires is rising.
The National Climate Assessment divides the country into 10 regions and identifies the key threats in each one.
(Image credit: the fifth ... Read more ...
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At a glance - How sensitive is our climate? - Skeptical Science (Nov 21) |
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Nov 21 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "How sensitive is our climate?". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
Climate sensitivity is of the utmost importance. Why? Because it is the factor that determines how much the planet will warm up due to our ... Read more ...
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Climate Adam: Climate Negotiation Crisis - Will COP28 be a giant mess? - Skeptical Science (Nov 20) |
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Nov 20 · This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
It's no secret that COP climate negotiations often disappoint. But the COP28 talks in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are off to a bad start... before they've even started. From fears about the location, to frustration of the appointment of oil man Sultan al Jaber as president, COP28 is off to a bad start before it's even started.
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #47 - Skeptical Science (Nov 19) |
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Nov 19 · Exclusive: Simon Stiell says leaders must ‘stop dawdling’ and act before crucial summit in Dubai
World leaders must “stop dawdling and start doing” on carbon emission cuts, as rapidly rising temperatures this year have put everyone on the frontline of disaster, the UN’s top climate official has warned.
No country could think itself immune from catastrophe, said Simon Stiell, who will oversee the crucial Cop28 climate summit that begins next week. Scores of world leaders will arrive in Dubai for tense talks on how to tackle the crisis.
“We’re used to talking about protecting people on the far-flung frontlines. We’re ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #46 2023 - Skeptical Science (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · From this week's government/NGO section, Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline:
Overall, 57% of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society. This share is down 8 percentage points since November 2021 and down 16 points since before the start of the coronavirus outbreak. About a third (34%) now say the impact of science on society has been equally positive as negative. A small share (8%) think science has had a mostly negative impact on society. When it comes to the standing of scientists, 73% of U.S. adults have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best ... Read more ...
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How to sell solar in coal country - Skeptical Science (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · When Matt McFadden came of age in southwestern Virginia in the early 2000s, he wasn’t planning on working for a clean energy outfit. He grew up playing in a high school garage band, part of his increasingly Republican county’s small punk scene. But staring out at the photovoltaic panels gleaming atop his daughter’s elementary school in July — an array his company, Secure Solar Futures, installed — he was beaming with pride. In the midst of the Inflation Reduction Act’s rollout, McFadden and coal-rich Wise County have something many politically conservative areas from Texas to Ohio are struggling to create: real, and growing, support for ... Read more ...
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At a glance - How the IPCC is more likely to underestimate the climate response - Skeptical Science (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "How the IPCC is more likely to underestimate the climate response". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations body founded in 1988. Its purpose ... Read more ...
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Can we still avoid 1.5 degrees C of global warming? - Skeptical Science (Nov 13) |
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Nov 13 · Strictly speaking, it’s not yet impossible to keep from heating our world more than 1.5 degrees Celsius beyond the average global air temperature of the mid-to-late 1800s, when the Industrial Revolution was gaining momentum. In practical terms, though, the odds of keeping global warming to 1.5°C are dwindling fast — though just how fast has been a matter of sharp debate. Here are a few points to help you navigate this critical and contentious topic.
The 2015 Paris agreement called for keeping the increase “well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.” A ... Read more ...
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46 - Skeptical Science (Nov 12) |
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Nov 12 · Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated. Did we really need another warning of the dire consequences of climate change in this country? The answer, legally, was yes: Congress mandates that the National Climate Assessment be updated every four years or so. But after four previous assessments and six United Nations reports since 1990, I was skeptical that what we needed to address climate change was yet another report.
In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #45 2023 - Skeptical Science (Nov 9) |
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Nov 9 · In AGU Advances, David Schimel and Charles Miller suggest that our economic and physical models around dealing with climate change have not kept up with evolving reality, in Do Two Climate Wrongs Make a Right?:
Climate policy has assumed that damage costs are manageable while decarbonization is expensive. Both these assumptions are wrong, potentially leading to a tipping point in human behavior: scientists need to explore options aligned with this emerging reality.
The authors take us through an arc of economic understanding of the economic challenges of global heating, starting at Nordhaus, through Stern and on up to the present, where faulty assumptions of decades ago ... Read more ...
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SkS Analogy 26 - Earth's Beating Heart - Skeptical Science (Nov 8) |
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Nov 8 · Earth has two beating hearts, of sorts, beating not at a rate per minute, but rather beating at a steady, consistent, life-giving 2 beats per year. Where are these terrestrial hearts located? The polar regions (read here and here). Without Earth’s hearts life on this planet would be very different. Earth’s hearts pump life-giving oxygen, nutrients, and energy to the remotest parts of our world.Earth’s hearts pump when each year the floating sea ice expands and contracts by millions of square kilometers. Ice sheets expand by salt water freezing during the cold months of the year. When this happens, salt is squeezed from the freezing water, creating a dense brine, ... Read more ...
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At a glance - Is Mars warming? - Skeptical Science (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "Is Mars warming?". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
You really have to hand it to climate science deniers. In the one breath, they claim global warming on Earth is all down to poor/badly-sited weather-station ... Read more ...
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Climate Adam: Zero to Hero? Achieving Net Zero Emissions - Skeptical Science (Nov 6) |
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Nov 6 · This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
To stop the world from heating, and halt climate change, we need net zero. But how? How could we get humanity's overall emissions to zero? And is this global warming goal just a pipe dream? Now the International Energy Agency (IEA) have highlighted a plan to get there by 2050, with the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. So what does the plan look like... and could it actually work?!
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45 - Skeptical Science (Nov 5) |
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Nov 5 · A Q&A with Richard Alley, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, on how melting at the South Pole could impact sea level rise.
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Penn State geologist Richard Alley.
Antarctica’s ice shelves are the gatekeepers between the continent’s glaciers and the open ocean.
As the planet warms, these shelves shrink, exposing more and more ice, which leads to more melting. This frozen continent rests under a massive ice sheet averaging more than a mile thick.
But a recent study in Science ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #44 2023 - Skeptical Science (Nov 2) |
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Nov 2 · Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters
Here we analyze historical and recent observations to show that ocean heat uptake has accelerated dramatically since the 1990s, nearly doubling during 2010–2020 relative to 1990–2000. Of the total ocean heat uptake over the Argo era 2005–2020, about 89% can be found in global mode and intermediate water layers, spanning both hemispheres and both subtropical and subpolar mode waters. Due to anthropogenic warming, there are significant changes in the volume of these water-mass layers as they warm and freshen. After factoring out volumetric changes, the combined warming of ... Read more ...
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What’s the deal with carbon capture and storage? - Skeptical Science (Nov 1) |
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Nov 1 · Is carbon capture and storage a needed tool to get us to the clean energy future or a costly distraction that will delay the fight against climate change? That massive debate between environmental groups, industry groups, and government officials has heated up since the passage of the Democrat’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, in 2022, featuring an expansion of tax credits for the technology.
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, seeks to limit carbon pollution from the industrial sector with technology that uses filtering equipment to capture carbon before release.
“The state of carbon capture is sort of on a cusp,” said Basav Sen, director of the ... Read more ...
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At a glance - Global warming vs climate change - Skeptical Science (Oct 31) |
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Oct 31 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "Global warming vs climate change". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
Have you heard this one? The quote above may be from Trump (a March 2013 tweet) but it's a really common talking-point. It's also utterly ... Read more ...
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Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable - Skeptical Science (Oct 30) |
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Oct 30 · This article by Kaitlin Naughten, Ocean-Ice Modeller, British Antarctic Survey; Jan De Rydt, Associate Professor of Polar Glaciology and Oceanography, Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Paul Holland, Ocean and Ice Scientist, British Antarctic Survey is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article
The rate at which the warming Southern Ocean melts the West Antarctic ice sheet will speed up rapidly over the course of this century, regardless of how much emissions fall in coming decades, our new research suggests. This ocean-driven melting is expected to increase sea-level rise, with consequences for coastal communities around ... Read more ...
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44 - Skeptical Science (Oct 29) |
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Oct 29 · Study delivers dire warning although rate of increase is debated by some scientists amid a record-breaking year of heat
Global heating is accelerating faster than is currently understood and will result in a key temperature threshold being breached as soon as this decade, according to research led by James Hansen, the US scientist who first alerted the world to the greenhouse effect.
The Earth’s climate is more sensitive to human-caused changes than scientists have realized until now, meaning that a “dangerous” burst of heating will be unleashed that will push the world to be 1.5C hotter than it was, on average, in pre-industrial times within the 2020s ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #43 2023 - Skeptical Science (Oct 26) |
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Oct 26 · As complete a quantification of the physical impacts and external costs imposed by state-of-the-art ungoverned mechanized avarice as anybody could desire: The Environmental Footprint of Bitcoin Mining Across the Globe: Call for Urgent Action. Published in AGU Earth's Future by Chamanara, Ghaffarizadeh & Madani, this report has already made a splash in the press. But no newspaper will run enough column inches to fully capture the catastrophically entropic energy travesty inflicted on us all by bitcoin mining. Happily, the article is open access, so all the details are available.
If it were an engineer's report to a condo association describing a buildiing with failing ... Read more ...
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What’s the deal with carbon capture and storage? - Skeptical Science (Oct 25) |
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Oct 25 · Is carbon capture and storage a needed tool to get us to the clean energy future or a costly distraction that will delay the fight against climate change? That massive debate between environmental groups, industry groups, and government officials has heated up since the passage of the Democrat’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, in 2022, featuring an expansion of tax credits for the technology.
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, seeks to limit carbon pollution from the industrial sector with technology that uses filtering equipment to capture carbon before release.
“The state of carbon capture is sort of on a cusp,” said Basav Sen, director of the ... Read more ...
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At a glance - What is the net feedback of clouds? - Skeptical Science (Oct 24) |
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Oct 24 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "What is the net feedback of clouds?". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
What part do clouds play in your life? You might not think about that consciously, but without clouds, Earth's land masses would all be ... Read more ...
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Climate Adam: Escaping the Elements - The truth behind Climate Migration - Skeptical Science (Oct 23) |
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Oct 23 · This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
From sea level rise to heatwaves, fires, floods and droughts – climate change is forcing people across the globe from their homes. But where do these people go? Is there such a thing as a climate change refugee? And what's the truth behind a lot of the misleading information about climate change and migration?Huge thanks to Sophia Burton from @MigrationMatters! Check her on twitter here: https://twitter.com/SophiaKBurtonAnd check Migration Matters here: https://migrationmatters.me/ Read more ...
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43 - Skeptical Science (Oct 22) |
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Oct 22 · After a record-shattering year, the world is looking to the United Nations conference in the UAE next month to put us on a safer path.
World leaders are gathering in the Middle East in a month’s time on a mission to curb climate change.
As the summit’s name suggests, COP28 is the 28th iteration of this UN climate conference.
And as another year of devastating extreme weather has made deadly clear - from record Greek wildfires to Libyan floods made 50 times worse by global warming - we’ve not tackled it yet.
Scientists say 2023 is virtually certain to be the hottest year on record, as time runs out to keep global warming below 1.5C above ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #42 2023 - Skeptical Science (Oct 19) |
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Oct 19 · Publishing in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Rasmus Wuff proposes a new hydrometeorological metric to help track changes in precipitation as we change our climate, "precipitation intensity duration index" or PID. As the title implies, The World’s Largest Point Rainfall Found Using the Precipitation Intensity Duration Index reveals a rather eye-popping statistic: in 2007 over the course of just 4 days, Réunion Island's Cratère Commerson was drenched with just shy of 5 meters of rainfall- 4.936 meters to be precise. This particular event isn't attributable to climate change, but might be considered as currently known upper brackets on the range of rainfall ... Read more ...
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New report has terrific news for the climate - Skeptical Science (Oct 18) |
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Oct 18 · On the climate crisis, there’s good news and bad news.
That’s according to the latest report from the International Energy Agency, or IEA, taking stock of humanity’s progress in addressing the problem. Since the 2015 Paris agreement, governments have made substantial progress in curbing their climate pollution, the report says. The deployment of clean technologies is fast accelerating, and global temperatures are on a less dangerous path than they were a decade ago
Yet that progress will need to accelerate faster to meet the targets set in the Paris agreement to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and preferably ... Read more ...
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At a glance - Do high levels of CO2 in the past contradict the warming effect of CO2? - Skeptical Science (Oct 17) |
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Oct 17 · On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features "Do high levels of CO2 in the past contradict the warming effect of CO2?". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there.
Before diving headlong into this myth, one key thing needs to be pointed out. The confidence expressed ... Read more ...
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With whales in trouble, conservationists, fishers, and others team up to protect them - Skeptical Science (Oct 16) |
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Oct 16 · Dick Ogg usually operates his commercial crab fishing boat F/V Karen Jeanne based out of Bodega Bay, about 40 miles northwest of San Francisco, but recently he’s also been spending some of his time in a plane looking for whales. Ogg’s work is part of a state program that seeks to help both fishery workers and whales adapt to the changing climate and warming oceans.
Climate change is amplifying conflicts between humans and wildlife, according to a recent Nature Climate Change study. One of these conflicts has put endangered marine animals, including blue whales, humpback whales, and Pacific leatherback sea turtles, off the California coast on a collision course with ... Read more ...
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42 - Skeptical Science (Oct 15) |
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Oct 15 · A 600-plus-page report from the National Academies of Science includes 80 recommendations for how the U.S. can achieve its target of net-zero emissions by 2050
Meeting the Biden administration’s goal for the United States to be a net-zero greenhouse gas emitter by 2050 is a monumental challenge that must be tackled at an even more daunting pace. But the nation’s top scientists envisioned that future and laid out a plan for realizing it in a report released on Tuesday.
In a sweeping 637-page document, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine made 80 recommendations for how the United States can justly and equitably pursue decarbonization ... Read more ...
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New Research for Week #41 2023 - Skeptical Science (Oct 12) |
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Oct 12 · Among five items in this week's government/NGO section is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's annual report Utility-Scale Solar, 2023 Edition, chock-a-block with statistics and graphs quantifying an explosion of installed permanent energy sources. Photovoltaic deployment is accelerating and now outpacing wind as costs have rapidly plunged. Given the natural properties of wind and solar energy supplies, reserve power storage is very much in frame. Current battery storage capacity is about 22GWh, what a sizeable nuclear plant could deliver over the course of 10 hours or so. There's of course much more to be done but it's also true that we're only now beginning to seriously tackle ... Read more ...
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