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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41 New research, October 2-8, 2017 SkS Analogy 10 - Bathtubs and Budgets Despite Trump, American companies are still investing in renewable energy Analysis: How wel...
With the fire season still on-going, Brazil has seen 208,278 fires this year, putting 2017 on track to beat 2004’s record 270,295 fires. While drought (likely exacerbated by climate change) worsens the fires, experts say that nearly every blaze this year is human-caused. The highest c...
The early Sun had a luminosity of some 30 per cent less than now and, over time, luminosity has increased in a steady state. The low lumunosity of the early Sun was such that the Earth's average surface temperature would have been below 0°C from 4500 to 2000 million years ago. But, th...
Remembering our dear friend Andy Skuce Posted on 21 September 2017 by dana1981 Long-time Skeptical Science contributor and our dear friend Andy Skuce passed away last Thursday, September 14th . Andy was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, with a median life expectancy of six years...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #40 New research, September 25 - October 1, 2017 Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming Global climate impacts of a potential volcanic eruption of Mount Agung Inside the Experiment: Abrupt Change and...
Professor Lewandowsky is an Australian Professorial Fellow and a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Australia. He received a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council in 2011. His research examines people's memory, decision making, and k...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #39 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39 New research, September 18-24, 2017 Climate and energy are becoming focal points in state political races Right-wing media could not be more wrong about the 1.5°...
StanislavLem at 16:37 PM on 16 November, 2007 All of the conclusions you make in your rebuttal of the skeptics argument are valid only if the Milankovitch cycles (which as you note provide relatively weak forcing) are indeed the sole cause for this whole process. This seems like a big...
