Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Includes news, and analysis of common skeptical arguments.
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Confusion caused by anecdotes of structures being buried by accumulating snow on Greenland's ice sheet leads some skeptics to believe Greenland is Gaining Ice . As always, the best way to tease out the truth here by following the research of scientists investigating Greenland's ice ma...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #32 The year Trump was elected was so hot, it was one-in-a-million SkS Resources - Easy to remember Short URLs Global weirding with Katharine Hayhoe: If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right? Fossil fuel subsidies ...
Underground magma triggered Earth’s worst mass extinction with greenhouse gases Posted on 1 August 2017 by howardlee Coincidence doesn’t prove causality, as they say, but when the same two things happen together over and over again through the vast span of geological time, there must ...
thingadonta at 19:45 PM on 20 June, 2010 "Past history shows us that when CO2 rose sharply, this corresponded with mass extinctions of coral reefs." The mass extinction events you refer to- End Permian, PTEM, End Triassic- occured over tens of thousands to millions of years, at a rate...
A profile of award-winning climate scientist Kevin Trenberth Posted on 27 July 2017 by John Abraham The American Geophysical Union - the pre-eminent organization of Earth scientists - presents annual awards to celebrate the achievements of scientists. The awards, which are often named...
Is energy 'dominance' the right goal for US policy? Posted on 18 July 2017 by Guest Author Daniel Raimi , Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of Michigan This article was originally published ...
Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens Posted on 14 July 2017 by dana1981 Academics have identified a skew in American politics, in which policies that are implemented are much more conservative than average Americans prefer. A new paper by...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30 A profile of award-winning climate scientist Kevin Trenberth Trump pulled out the oil industry playbook and players for Paris Explainer: How data adjustments affect global temperature records Study: our Paris carbon budg...
