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As mentioned in the recently published prolog to EGU2026 article , I submitted an abstract to talk about the results of the experiment we ran on Skeptical Science to gauge the effectiveness of our rebuttals. This blog post is a "companion article" to that presentation in session EOS4.1 Geoethics: Linking Geoscience Knowledge, Ethical Responsibility, and Action and will go into somewhat greater de…

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 26, 2026 thru Sat, May 2, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 The Conversation, Helen Millman, Martin Siegert, Richard Alley, Apr 24, 2026. Next El Niño could be tippin…

Open access notables Unprecedented 2024 East Antarctic winter heatwave driven by polar vortex weakening and amplified by anthropogenic warming , Tang et al., npj Climate and Atmospheric Science During July–August 2024, East Antarctica experienced the most intense winter heatwave in the 46-year satellite era, with regional mean surface air temperatures across Dronning Maud Land exceeding the clima…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires, a new study found. Fires used to die down or even die out at night as temperatures dropped and humidity increased, but that’s happening less …

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler I am finalizing a textbook on climate risk and am posting chapters as I finish them. I’d previously posted chapters about embedded energy and physical climate risk ; this post is a chapter on transition risk, the economic and social risks of the transition to a clean-energy economy. Introduction In the context of climate risk, transition …

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters October 28, 2025, was a very bad day to be in Jamaica. That morning, Category 5 Hurricane Melissa intensified into the strongest hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic: 190 mph (305 km/h) winds, a tie with Hurricane Allen of 1980. That afternoon Melissa powered ashore in Jamaica, causing a catastrophic $8.8 billion in damage, equiva…

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 19, 2026 thru Sat, April 25, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) A more troubling picture of sea level rise is coming into view Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of m…

This is a guest blog post by John Lang about his new " Climate Trunk " graphics project and website. He will add one graphic per week for about 2 years rounding out the big picture of human-caused climate change graphic by graphic. If you had to explain climate change in 10 seconds, what would you say? Climate scientists Katharine Hayhoe and Kimberly Nicholas have long boiled it down to five phra…

Technical note: new feature in New Research Every article we list here is eyeball-scanned by a real human but we do lean on bibliographic catalogs (publication databases) to supply article metadata for assembly of each edition of our weekly research surveillance scan. A little in-house software on our end connected via an API to a rich suite of upstream bibliographic information makes regular pro…

This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will again take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from May 4 to 8. This year, I'll join the event virtually for the full week, participating in the hybrid sessions from the comforts of my home. I already picked most of the sessions I plan to attend and - as meet-hopping is a lot easier online than on-s…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters In brief: Multiple studies have found that tropical cyclones are becoming stronger worldwide. New so-called attribution studies have linked increased wind speeds to human-caused ocean warming. In the future, scientists expect an increase in the proportion of Category 4 and Category 5 tropical cyclones. The dangers posed by one of hum…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Pearl Marvell The Trump administration’s fuel blockade against Cuba has resulted in widespread power outages, gas shortages, garbage in the streets, and a humanitarian crisis – but also a surge in solar installations. In 2025, the Caribbean nation produced 10% of its electricity from renewable sources, a jump from 3.6% in 2024, according to Rosel…

A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 12, 2026 thru Sat, April 18, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Climate change is outpacing evolution. Scientists are using DNA to catch up Phys.org, Annika Hammerschlag, Apr 10, 2026. Marine heatwaves `nearly double` the eco…

Open access notables Synergistic impact of marine heat waves and rapid intensification exacerbates tropical cyclone destructive power worldwide , Radfar et al., Science Advances Tropical cyclones (TCs) are among the most devastating natural phenomena, causing substantial economic damage and severe impacts on human life and infrastructure. Prolonged extreme ocean temperature events, known as marin…

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In a recent post on his Substack, Jim Hansen wrote about “runaway climates” on Earth, and I thought it would be useful to explain the physics of what this actually means and whether it’s something we need to worry about. A runaway greenhouse occurs when humans add enough carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to push it past a threshold beyond …

This is a re-post from Staying Curious by Dean Rovang This post presents two figures that are the culmination of an extended effort to build the strongest possible empirical case for what the paleoclimate record shows about CO? and temperature. They draw on five independent regression fits across four independent archives and 66 million years of geological evidence. The argument stands on its own…

A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 5, 2026 thru Sat, April 11, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (9 articles) The US is now paying more than any other country for climate change damage, study suggests "Despite being the biggest carbon emitter, the US is already paying a d…

Open access notables Why we need to explore conflict and competition around solar geoengineering , Möller & Young, PLOS Climate In an increasingly aggressive international political environment, solar geoengineering needs to be reconceptualized – not only as a response to climate change, but as an instrument of power. This conceptualization means going beyond focusing on cooperative scenarios in …

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran have sent oil and gas prices soaring. That could be a boon to cheap, clean technologies like electric vehicles, solar power, and wind – at least in the long run. But in the short run, the outlook is more complicated. Why is the conflict causing oil and gas prices to spike? Iran began restricting ship traffic thr…

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do wind turbines utilize land for electricity generation more efficiently than fossil fuels? Wind turbines require less land use for the same amount of energy generated by oil or natural gas, and land between turbines is …