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Our latest fact brief published in collaboration with Gigafact answers the question "Are most glaciers growing?" with "No - The vast majority of glaciers have continued to shrink worldwide.[...]" Follow the link to read the full - but short! - fact brief and its references! https://lnkd.in/e_Zvzc2B Link to the full rebuttal the fact brief is related to: https://sks.to/glacier #climatescience #glaciers #factbrief Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science related posts because most of our team members who are writing content for our website are not active on LinkedIn. Comments are therefore closed. For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf

🌍Debunking Clean Energy Myths: A New Resource about Climate Solutions 🌞🚗 We're excited to announce a new initiative to tackle "solutions denial" — the spread of misinformation about the feasibility of climate solutions like solar, wind, and electric vehicles. Earlier this year, we came across an essential resource: "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles," published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. It’s a comprehensive report by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger, and Samuel Lavine. After reaching out to the Sabin team, we received their enthusiastic support to adapt these rebuttals for Skeptical Science! The result? 33 fact-based, intermediate-level rebuttals, each addressing a specific myth about clean energy technologies. From "It's too hard" arguments to misconceptions about energy costs and grid reliability, each rebuttal is now available as part of our taxonomy. 🔗 An Accessible, Research-Backed Approach  Every rebuttal includes referenced footnotes and glossary citations for easy access to the original research and underlying information. 📅 Weekly Highlights Starting next Tuesday, we’ll highlight one of these rebuttals each week to bring focus to these crucial insights, but all 33 rebuttals are live on our website already. Our thanks to the Sabin Center for making this collaboration possible! Explore these resources and join us in spreading fact-based information about clean energy solutions. https://lnkd.in/efZ8FpMF #CleanEnergy #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #ElectricVehicles #SolutionsDenial Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science (or in this case climate solutions) related posts. Comments here are therefore closed but encouraged to be added to the 33 published rebuttals on our website (sks.to/sabin33-rebuttals). For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf.

You've probably already noticed this new climate documentary on YouTube, but just in case you missed it, here's the link. Well worth a watch (if possible on a large TV screen). Proper grown up scientists like Stefan Rahmstorf , Samantha Burgess, PhD and Johan Rockström quietly and calmly explain the science and the risks in easy to understand language, backed up by extremely clear animations and graphics. It is by far the best climate documentary I have ever watched. BTW I will be reviewing the AMOC collapse on the Just Have a Think YT channel later today https://lnkd.in/emrQNPTX

Our latest fact brief published in collaboration with Gigafact answers the question "Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans?" with "No - Volcanoes release CO2, but the amount is minimal compared to human-caused emissions. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, volcanoes emit around 180-440 million tons of CO2 annually. In contrast, human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels, emitted 41.5 billion tons of CO2 in 2022—over 100 times more.[...]" Follow the link to read the full - but short! - fact brief and its references! https://lnkd.in/eUm5xYTb Link to the full rebuttal the fact brief is related to: https://lnkd.in/emzQ96-z Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science related posts because most of our team members who are writing content for our website are not active on LinkedIn. Comments are therefore closed. For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf

This is a neat student project about "misinfluencers" on LinkedIn - like the ones who think posts about serious topics like the climate crisis are a laughing matter instead of something to be tackled! Thanks to Gunnar Schade for organizing it and making use of John Cook's CARDS taxonomy for it!

The 42nd edition of this year's Weekly Research posts contains 104 articles in 50 journals by 610 contributing authors, spanning a wide range of climate-related topics. Also included are several articles or reports from agencies and non-governmental organizations addressing various aspects of climate change (full list, summaries and URL are in the linked article): - Navigating climate action: Assessing the economic impacts and trade-offs of a shipping carbon tax for African states, Ogbugo et al., African Policy Research Institute - The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges 2024, Cara Fogle and Noah Ver Beek, Sierra Club - Climate change key driver of catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Helene that devastated both coastal and inland communities, Clarke, World Weather Attribution - Global Hunger Index, Wiemers et al, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide - Public Financial Support for Renewable Power Generation and Integration in the G20 Countries, Laan et al., International Institute for Sustainable Development - Private Equity Climate Risks, Duong et al., Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Global Energy Monitor, and Private Equity Stakeholder Project - Procuring With Purpose: Canada’s Opportunity to Shape the Carbon Removal Market, Carbon Removal Canada - The security blind spot: Cascading climate impacts and tipping points threaten national security, Laybourn et al., Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, The Global Systems Institute, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and The Strategic Climate Risks Initiative - 2024 Living Planet Report. A System in Peril, WWF - 2024 Electric Report, Laszlo von Lazar and Jim Doull, Black and Veatch - Top 50 Banks In The World Tackling Adaptation - 2024, Woodall et al., Climate X and Climate Proof - Leaders or Laggards? Analyzing major US banks’ net-zero commitments, Sierra Club - Energy Transition Outlook 2024, Irvine et al., Det Norske Veritas - Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition, Seel et al., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Future Risks Reports, Axa - Florida Climate Survey - September 2024, Polsky et al., Florida Atlantic University https://lnkd.in/ejf_Nwg9 #climate #climatescience Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science related posts because most of our team members who are writing content for our website are not active on LinkedIn. Comments are therefore closed. For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf

Our latest fact brief published in collaboration with Gigafact answers the question "Is more CO2 a good thing because it’s plant food?" with "No - While CO2 is necessary for plant growth, the negative impacts of climate change, driven by man-made CO2 emissions, far outweigh short-term productivity gains.[...]" Follow the link to read the full - but short! - fact brief and its references! https://lnkd.in/eFu5F57V Link to the full rebuttal the fact brief is related to: https://sks.to/plant Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science related posts because most of our team members who are writing content for our website are not active on LinkedIn. Comments are therefore closed. For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf

More than four years ago the first two versions of the #FLICC-poster were published in German and English as the successful result of a collaboration with our German-language partner website klimafakten Die Plattform für Klimakommunikation. The large-format infographic depicts the typical techniques and common tricks used by disinformation campaigns: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories - easily memorizable as FLICC. The poster has previously been available in eight languages, and now Russian and Romanian have been added with the help of partners from Moldova and Russia. https://lnkd.in/eCSqfrXs To download the poster as a PDF in one of the available languages, please use these links: English #FLICC - https://lnkd.in/evqkhtwX German #PLURV - https://lnkd.in/enMJJu-s Dutch #PLOKS - https://lnkd.in/eja8t2Ae Portuguese #EFEST- https://lnkd.in/eMGBeTx6 Spanish #FRESI -https://lnkd.in/ecbd4NpV French #FLIPiC - https://lnkd.in/erndr9nV Luxembourgish #FLOKK - https://lnkd.in/eEr_KfKT Polish #PLOWS - https://lnkd.in/eW-Gsf3g Romanian #PLAAT - https://lnkd.in/ecEduFck Russian #PONIT - https://lnkd.in/ewtf8reh Toralf Staud EcoVisio @caneecca Marie-Pascale Gafinen

Last week's Skeptical Science New Research compilation includes 174 articles in 64 journals by 967 contributing authors, some of which are featured in the open access section. Included cateogries: - Physical science of climate change, effects - Observations of climate change, effects - Instrumentation & observational methods of climate change, effects - Modeling, simulation & projection of climate change, effects - Advancement of climate & climate effects modeling, simulation & projection - Paleoclimate & paleogeochemistry - Biology & climate change, related geochemistry - GHG sources & sinks, flux, related geochemistry - CO2 capture, sequestration science & engineering - Decarbonization - Geoengineering climate - Black carbon - Aerosols - Climate change communications & cognition - Agronomy, animal husbundry, food production & climate change - Hydrology, hydrometeorology & climate change - Climate change economics - Climate change mitigation public policy research - Climate change adaptation & adaptation public policy research - Climate change impacts on human health - Climate change & geopolitics - Climate change impacts on human culture https://lnkd.in/evPdGdUg Note: For content shared from our homepage the best place for discussions is the original article and not the thread on LinkedIn. This especially applies when it comes to climate science related posts because most of our team members who are writing content for our website are not active on LinkedIn. Comments are therefore closed. For more details, please see our comments policy at https://lnkd.in/e6USPMzf #climate #climatescience

We are extremely sad to report that our esteemed Skeptical Science colleague— and good friend to many of us— John Mason passed away on Friday September 20, 2024. Only last week, we blew a horn of appreciation for John's remarkable gift for telling stories about science. Our expectation was that of John being a constant in our lives. We are truly stunned by John's unexpected departure. With this post, we want to recount some of John's many contributions to Skeptical Science, a big part of a legacy which will live on in the minds of old and new readers of John’s work. John published his very first blog post, „The End of the Hothouse“, in December 2011 and many more have followed since then. One of his most often viewed articles, the „History of Climate Science“, started as a 3-part series in 2012. We then collected it into a post directly linked from our homepage. If you browse John's profile page (sks.to/johnmason), you'll notice that many of his articles tackled the geological past and what it can tell us about current climate change. He wrote long-form and very helpful primers about the slow carbon cycle, the jet stream, and the components of Earth's climate system to name just a few. The project to update our rebuttals wouldn't have been possible without John and we for sure wouldn't have seen 75(!) updated rebuttals leave our little rebuttals update factory between February 2023 and July 2024, when we announced a summer break and relaxed publication schedule. John was also instrumental in getting our collaboration with Gigafact launched to publish fact briefs, very condensed rebuttals to common climate myths. Even as he is now no longer with us, John's writing will live on and will help others better understand and appreciate climate science. Here is our full tribute to him which includes personal memories from members of our team who had the pleasure to work and collaborate with John over the years: https://lnkd.in/e-5APKcz