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2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #9B New Video: What Climate Deniers Learned from Big Tobacco 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #9A Understanding adjustments to temperature data With climate change, US presidents matter 2015 SkS News Bulletin #1: Adjusting Temperature Records Telegraph wrong a...
The chances of the "unburnable" fossil fuels remaining unburnt seem very slim indeed. Can you really imagine the scenario "The new research paints a stark picture of the compromises in fuel use necessary in a climate-constrained world. The researchers say it raises the question of how...
Here’s one of the better produced videos you’ll see on climate change, not so much because of the flashy b-roll but because the scientist cuts right to the chase. It’s part of a series called Climate Change Elevator Pitch and comes courtesy of Climate Denial Crock of the Week . The ho...
Figure 2: Time series for the World Ocean of ocean heat content (1022 J) for the 0-2000m (red) and 700-2000m (black) layers based on running pentadal (five-year) analyses. Reference period is 1955-2006. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertic...
My AGU talk on tackling climate myths in a free online course Posted on 20 December 2014 by John Cook This post is based on an invited presentation I gave at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The talk was titled Applying Agnotology Based Learning in a ...
In terms of climate impact, methane emissions from the natural gas industry largely, if not totally, offset reductions in carbon dioxide from using natural gas instead of coal, gasoline, diesel or heating oils. More methane is leaking than regulators estimate, and pound-for-pound, eac...
Mercury Rising: 2014 Likely to Surpass 2010 as Warmest Year on Record Posted on 27 November 2014 by Rob Painting The monthly global analysis for October has been released at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and it reveals that global surface temperature for October 2014 is ...
2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #1B Things I thought were obvious! 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #1A Another year and glaciers are another metre thinner Time is running out on climate denial Andy Skuce's AGU Fall Meeting 2014 poster presentation 2014 SkS Weekly Digest #52 2014 SkS Weekly ...
