WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE: COMFORTING FALSE HOPES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING REDUCTION PROGRESS OR HONEST FACTS?
Myself, our organization, and our allies are constantly struggling with how to communicate the truth about our current state of global warming. How do we effectively tell our members what many climate scientists know, but few will publicly state because of negative repercussions to their funding, careers, and personal safety?
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WELCOME TO THE AGE OF CLIMATE MIGRATION...
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Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year. It could soon reshape the nation...
Read moreIMPACT OF WARMING SEAS FELT BY NORTHEASTERN FISHERIES...
Boats float in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick at high tide. Larry Montrie
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE BAY OF FUNDY AND GULF OF MAINE...
SKEPTICAL SCIENCE: NEW RESEARCH, FEBRUARY 12-18, 2018...
The Figure is from paper #24.
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below...
Read moreWE CAN’T ENGINEER OUR WAY OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE...
Nope, that won't do it... Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg
Unfortunately, that’s what some scientists think humans will try to do...
Read more2018 SKS WEEKLY CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING NEWS ROUNDUP #8...
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Seas Will Rise for 300 Years
And the longer it takes to reduce carbon emissions, the higher they will go...
Read moreSOME OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST LAKES ARE DRYING UP. HERE'S WHY...
LAKE POOPÓ The dry, salt-crusted Bolivian lake bed unfurls into the distance. Boats are stranded; the fish and waterfowl are gone. Fishermen who depended on the lake are moving else - where. It’s a diaspora born of drought. PHOTOGRAPH BY MAURICIO LIMA
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2018 SKS WEEKLY CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING DIGEST #7...
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Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS in the News... Photo of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Video of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...
Story of the Week...
We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years...
The sudden, scary ice melt in the Arctic, in three charts.
Read moreWE’RE WITNESSING THE FASTEST DECLINE IN ARCTIC SEA ICE IN AT LEAST 1,500 YEARS...
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A poplar tree farm in Oregon is a fast-growing bioenergy source.
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
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Vast bioenergy plantations could stave off climate change—and radically reshape the planet
Read moreHOW RISING SEAS AND COASTAL STORMS DROWNED THE U.S. FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM...
Sea level rise and more severe storms are overwhelming U.S. coastal communities, causing billions of dollars in damage and essentially bankrupting the federal flood insurance program. Yet rebuilding continues, despite warnings that far more properties will soon be underwater...
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HUMAN EXISTENCE THREATENED MORE BY EXTREME WEATHER, NOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, GLOBAL EXPERTS WARN...
Add your reaction ShareTRUMP SAYS FAIRER DEAL MIGHT COAX U.S. BACK INTO THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD...
Add your reaction ShareWE MUST STOP THIS! TRUMP PLANS TO OPEN NEARLY ALL U.S. WATERS TO DRILLING...
Yesterday, President Trump's Interior Department announced plans to open up oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States marine waters, putting more than 100 million offshore acres under imminent threat from the Trump administration and Big Oil.1
This is unacceptable, and we need you to take action today!
Read moreDec 31: UNIVERSE DAY & 9TH ANNUAL CELEBRATE THE UNIVERSE AND DEAL WITH THE GLOBAL WARMING EMERGENCY EVENT
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Announcing the 9th annual Universe Day! Universe Day is an annual birthday for the Universe event starting December 31st at noon running through January 1st at noon...
Read moreUS GOVERNMENT CLIMATE REPORT LOOKS AT HOW THE OCEANS ARE BUFFERING CLIMATE CHANGE...
Bleaching damage on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Photograph: GREG TORDA/ARC CENTRE CORAL REEF STUDIES HANDOUT/EPA
A key chapter of the US Global Change Research Program Report deals with how the oceans are being impacted by human carbon pollution...
Read moreCALIFORNIA'S THOMAS FIRE TORCHES RECORD BOOKS, AS 'NORMAL' CLIMATE BURNS AWAY...
The Thomas December 2017 fire is now the largest one in California's record books. Image courtesy of the Ventura County Fire Department
The freakish, "rainy-season" Thomas Fire in California has just burned itself into the record books. On Dec. 22, 2017 it officially became the state's largest recorded wildfire, having already burned 273,400 acres...
Read moreCALIFORNIA FIRE: RESIDENT SAYS NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKS LIKE 'WAR ZONE'...
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(CNN) Jeannette Frescas was not concerned about the Thomas Fire until the massive blaze reached her neighborhood in Ventura, California...
Read moreHOW GLOBAL WARMING FUELED FIVE EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS...
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Extreme weather left its mark across the planet in 2016, the hottest year in recorded history. Record heat baked Asia and the Arctic. Droughts gripped Brazil and southern Africa. The Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst bleaching event in memory, killing large swaths of coral.
Now climate scientists are starting to tease out which of last year’s calamities can, and can’t, be linked to global warming...
Read moreMOST DIRE CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS, WARNS NEW STUDY, ARE ALSO THE MOST ACCURATE...
A new study suggests that the planet is far likelier to become four degrees Celsius warmer by 2100 than previously thought. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)
New research shows emissions must go down every year starting in 2020 to prevent dangerous warming of planet...
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