Skeptical Science New Research for Week #29 2024
Open access notables Improving global temperature datasets to better account for non-uniform warming, Calvert, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: To better account for spatial non-uniform trends in warming, a new GITD [global instrumental…
Wrong, Bloomberg, Texas “Deniers” Are Right, Climate Change Had Nothing to Do with Hurricane Beryl
It was irresponsible for Bloomberg to publish this article, rife as it was with inaccuracies and misleading claims.
Efforts to Build Climate Resilience Do Not Protect Human Health
The Department of Health and Human Services’ resilience policy undermines efforts to prevent climate disaster.
2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28
A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 7, 2024 thru Sat, July 13, 2024. Story of the week It's still early summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The season comes as our first year…
Climate change causing more frequent and deadly lightning strikes: Scientists
Scientists highlight the link between climate change and the rise in lightning strikes in India, with recent incidents claiming many lives. The warming climate is fueling more thunderstorms, increasing the risk of deadly lightning strikes. As temperatures con…
Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions?
Scientists aren’t just arguing whether humans are causing a sixth mass extinction event now, but whether many more occurred in the past
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Bluntly, storytelling is the best way—maybe the only way—to inform, persuade, and inspire people to act. It helps us assimilate facts, contextualize them, and understand and share their meaning.
The Dangerous Myth of Population Growth: How Billionaires Are Leading Us Astray
The original blog was published in The Hartmann Report on June 13, 2024 Elon Musk, the father of eleven children, thinks that the declining population is a crisis and the world needs more babies —particularly those with his DNA — or there will be a crisis. Fo…