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Our latest #ClimateNews roundup sports an extra story, woven from others.
The northern hemisphere summer's brutal beginning is also statistically novel-- and the general public is catching on to this. Changing weather behavior drives evolution and adaptation of #ClimateChangeDenial, pushing #EnergyModernization obstructionists to devise entirely new species of #ClimatePolicy friction.
#AnthropogenicClimateChange dots in one convenient location, ready for connection!
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Our latest roundup of #AnthropogenicClimateChange news as seen from outside the world of academia.
Our "Story of the Week" concerns a paper providing an updated estimate of what refusal to modernize (and clean up) our energy systems may cost by the middle of the century: $38T/year, globally.
Suppose the authors are off by 50%. Are we out of the woods? Obviously not. What if they're off by 50% _less_?
The results will be refined but are already perfectly useful.
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Every week we produce a listing of freshly published academic research on #ClimateScience, #AnthropogenicClimateChange, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaptation. Much of it is #OpenAccess, free to read.
As well, always a selection of useful climate-related reports from governments and NGOs.
Why? Knowledge is power, including strength against deception.
Our latest edition includes 143 articles in 69 journals by 882 contributing authors, plus 14 gov/NGO items.
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"It's all about us!"
Well, no, no really. Too-rapid #AnthropogenicClimateChange is the topic here. Our beat is combating #SyntheticIgnorance about climate science, swatting down #ClimateMyths.
We treated the recently excreted carnival of #ClimateBunk "Climate: The Movie." We're delighted with the performance of our #debunking. So, we're dancing in the end zone with this as our Story of the Week in our latest #ClimateNews roundup.
35 other stories in this roundup!
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Our latest weekly #ClimateResearch roundup includes a sweet example of #consilience:
"Transition from positive to negative indirect CO2 effects on the vegetation carbon uptake," Chen et al.
If we observed primary productivity behaving this way out of the blue, we'd want to know why, we'd look for why and we'd end up with an explanation for why-- via #AtmosphericGeochemistry.
Increasing CO2 concentration manifests by multiple independent paths-- in mutual agreement.
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#FLICC: a taxonomy of science denial techniques.
The FLICC-Poster is a successful collaboration between Skeptical Science and our German language partner website #Klimafakten. First published in May 2020 and with an appealing design by Marie-Pascale Gafinen, the poster has proven infectiously popular.
We've just released three new translations: French (FLIPiC), Luxembourgish (FLOKK) and Polish (PLOWS), taking us to eight versions so far.
Find 'em all via the link!
https://skepticalscience.com/FLICC-poster-downloads-and-translations.html?SkS+Mastodon
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This week's Skeptical Science New Research "Most Tragic Not-Open-Access" Nominee" is "The timing of decreasing coastal flood protection due to sea-level rise," authored by by Herman et al. and obfuscated by Nature Climate Change.
The authors specifically mention the utility of their work for policymakers. We observe that the vast majority of policy practitioners will be unable to enjoy the authors' pearls of wisdom (begging for reprints does not scale).
#DarkScience
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We are happy to announce the Russian and Romanian translations of the successful #FLICC poster, depicting the main #disinformation techniques. These are often found in climate myths and many other topics where #misinformation is prevelant: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories.
Learn about them via this neatly illustrated poster. It can be downloaded for free from the klimafakten website.
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We're doing it again: blowing our own horn for 'Story of the Week' in our latest roundup of 34 items of climate coverage in media beyond the rarefied air of academia.
Our #FLICC quiz (with #CrankyUncle!) has tickled the fancy of quite a few people-- because what looks simple turns out surprisingly difficult?
What's FLICC? Learn all about it and much more at our latest edition of the Skeptical Science Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup, #21 for 2024.
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What's #FLICC?
It's a taxonomical system for classifying different forms of bunk, allowing us to identify which particular cognitive weapons are being targeted at our psychological susceptibilities.
Some familiarity and practice with FLICC helps us to deal with the firehose of #ClimateMyths, #VaccineDisinformation and other rubbish lobbed into our brains on a daily basis.
How are your bunk detection skills right now? Try this fun little quiz!
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Discourses of Delay and #FLICC feature large in a Brown University Climate and Development Lab report included in the government/NGO section of our weekly research roundup.
#OpenAccess academic articles among 158 in all include how to fairly exit fossil fuel extraction (ethically complicated), the "ignorance horizon" lying beyond likely imminent biological assemblage collapse-- and many more you'll never see splashed in headlines.
#ClimateResearch
#DiscoursesOfDelay
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Join us on Thursday, April 27 at 23:00 UTC for the next #SkepticalInquirer Presents livestream event with #MickWest: https://skepticalinquirer.org/video/videogame-science-and-ufos-mick-west/ - he will explain how he reverse-engineers #UFO videos and demonstrate how he uses other videogame programming techniques to visualize this interactively. The skills and techniques used to find the root cause of bugs and glitches in videogames are the same used to figure out what a UFO is.
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For 10 years (!) our invaluable volunteer @BaerbelW has authored an annual review of Skeptical Science's accomplishments in connection with fixing our #ClimateChange problem- by building better #ClimateCognition.
Here's Bärbel's recap of 2024, narrating a year including numerous research papers published, collaborations cemented, conference presentations delivered, #DebunkingResource translations completed, infrastructure projects progressed.
And a truly shocking loss.
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Here's our latest weekly #ClimateChange news roundup, 26 stories accessible from one convenient launching point.
This week we feature articles in these categories:
* Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science
* Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions
* International Climate Conferences and Agreements
* Climate Education and Communication
* Climate Change Impacts
* Climate Science and Research
* Climate Policy and Politics
All just a click away!
Join our we-never-share-addresses email list for carefully curated automagically-delivered #ClimateNews.
https://skepticalscience.com/2025-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_23.html
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We're all in on the upcoming 'Weather and Climate Livestream,' so it stands as our Story of The Week in our latest weekly #ClimateChange news roundup.
US meteorologists and climate researchers are hoping the US public will stand with them shoulder-to-shoulder to make life better now and in the future. Will this faith be rewarded? Easily answered: don't look left, don't look right.
That and 28 other stories about our climate urgency, all in one place and easy to access.
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Our little crew of volunteers is spread wide and thin, so we're not always able to post here when we publish something new.
But if you'd like to keep up with #ClimateNews from a wide variety of sources and #ClimateResearch as it appears in a plethora of journals, we do weekly features on both at our website, along with a stream of information related to #ClimateDenial.
Tap in by subscribing to our spam-free email notifications. Your address goes no further!
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Here's the final edition for 2024 of our weekly #ClimateNews feature. 23 items assembled in one place for easy access-- and now categorized!
If you're feeling up to a challenge, look for "What happened in climate news in 2024? Take our quiz," from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Like a metronome our beat will go on but starting over with edition number one, this coming 4 Jan. 2025.
Meanwhile- joining a crowd- Santa is having second thoughts on past choices.
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Here are some of the meteorologists, weather and climate researchers we'll be hearing from during the Weather & Climate LIvestream, starting tomorrow at 1p ET.
Why is this important and deserving of your time? Consider the context of the opening event:
---> "Live from the last hours in the NASA GISS lab, featuring Kate Marvel" <---
The -last hours- of #NASA #GISS. Let that sink in. Conspicuous-- but only the tip of the destruction happening now.
Some who'll be explaining the stakes we recognize, others not. All of them are providing vital services. Many are the future of our safety, now hanging in the balance.
Ben Santer
Karen McKinnon
Adam Sobel
Anand Gnanadesikan
Chris Vagasky
Isaac Held
Jeff Masters
Suzana Camargo
Daniel Swain
John Morales
Kristina Dahl
Zeke Hausfather
Marshall Shepherd
@ZLabe
Kerry Emanuel
Andy Dessler
Ralph KeelingClick out of here to learn more.
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Our latest weekly #ClimateResearch roundup provides fast access to a bumper crop of 189 academic articles by 1,109 authors published in 75 journals.
"Why the lower stratosphere cools when the troposphere warms" touches on a favorite hobbyhorse of advanced climate change deniers. Observational evidence is clear-- here's "why?"
Don't miss #NASA #GISS Director Gavin Schmidt''s "Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory."
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Our latest weekly #ClimateNews roundup highlighted an intriguing article published by #CitizensClimateLobby, "Connecting about climate change with the most skeptical people in the USA."
The article in turn discusses the experience of embedding in a community economically welded to coal extraction, to make a documentary series"True False Hot Cold."
Why do people appear to be so stubborn? Here are some reasons.
That and 30 other items, all conveniently collated!
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@sim
Many young people will take up causes if they think they are important, and in all honesty we think you'd agree, rejecting the technofeudal consumptionist system is the only way we survive, longterm. Its important.The best we can do is teach young people how to be #skeptical, spot #scams, attempts to #coopt and indoctrinate them, and ills of #hedonism and submitting to #temptation.
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"Technical difficulties" in dealing with #ClimateChange and how to address them dominate our highlighted research reports this week.
* Glacier Geoengineering May Have Unintended Consequences for Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries
* In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
* Dead-end pathways: Conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding [about counterproductive "mitigation theater"]
As well, a fascinating behind-the-scenes report on #ClimateModels:
* How Climate Model Developers Deal With Bugs
Nice quote: "It’s very scientific activity because you form an idea of what’s making the model misbehave. You develop hypotheses. I think of a test and do it and that’s why the bug hunting is fun."
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@SkepticalEye
Zelensky needs to wake up to the fact that, because of the war, we're all struggling and #presidentmacron must be careful with the French public purse, also of NATO. Zelensky should be grateful rather than critical if he wants to keep public support, already waning in the UK as its citizens have to chose between heating & eating, some parents going without food so they can feed their kids. -
Whether by accident or design a certain flavor of #ClimateScienceDenial centers on semantic niceties.
Maybe no better example than "ocean acidification." The term "acidification" is a neutral (!) expression of falling pH-- from any starting level. #ClimateMyth enthusiasts would like us to believe this term of movement on a continuum to be hyperbole. It isn't; it's only an expression of direction.
Here's our 150-word treatment, in collaboration with #GigaFact.
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Know a climate science denier? An elliptical way to have a meaningful conversation about that might be to partner and do this course.
#ClimateScienceDenial
#GeophysicsRejectionistshttps://skepticalscience.com/2023-self-paced-run-denial101x-starts-February-7.html