Open access notables
At our roots Skeptical Science is about cognition of the results of climate science research in the minds of the entire human population. Ideally we d be perfectly communicating understanding of Earth s climate, and perfectly understood. We can only approximate that, but hopefully converging closer to perfection. With the passage of time and a lot of effort on the part of researchers working on how our species thinks, we can inch forward— if we pay attention. With that in mind, two papers in this week s trawl land very close to our home. Each sports results important to climate science communicators but differing in paths and challenges to practical applicability.
Irish-based banks and other financial institutions have channelled almost €6bn worth of investment into fossil fuels and other environmentally harmful industries in poor countries, a global study shows.
ActionAid today launched the Fund Our Future campaign during the People's Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and published a report naming and shaming the biggest banks investing in fossil fuels and industrial agroecology in countries in the Global South.