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113 articles in 48 journals by 674 contributing authors Physical science of climate change, effects

Some scientists predict worsening effects of human-caused climate change will combine with natural warming patterns to create stronger and more frequent weather emergencies throughout 2024. What could we be in

With traditional grass-measuring techniques limited in their flexibility, a new trial has shown that physical measurement and accuracy can be improved by

Open access notables In AGU Advances, David Schimel and Charles Miller suggest that our economic and physical models around dealing with climate change have not kept up with evolving reality, in Do Two Climate Wrongs Make a Right?:

Open access notables Net zero is only a distraction— we just have to end fossil fuel emissions. The latter is true but the former isnt, or  not in the real world as its likely to be in the immediate future. And just just doesnt enter into it; we dont have a simple problem on our hands. Net zero is afflicted by various carpetbaggers and the fossil fuel industry itself— plus plain old human nature in the form of wishful thinking. But fully eliminating hydrocarbon fuels and non-fue...

The 18thConference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of

Open access notables In this weeks government/NGO section we have a survey from IPSOS gauging experience of climate change in the day-to-day by persons in the US, One in four Americans say climate change will make it harder to live in their area. Many people struggle to separate their sensory perceptions from matters of metaphysics, with ideology strongly coloring their worldview. We live in a world that is quantitatively different than that our parents were born into, b...

Open access notables In this weeks government/NGO reports section, another rapid assessment by World Weather Attribution, an outfit dedicated to keeping us informed of the impacts of climate change on weather events happening around us right now. WWAs new report Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada finds:

151 articles in 65 journals by 793 contributing authors Physical science of climate change, effects

Open access notables This week were pleased to highlight a paper by Sergei Samoilenko and John Cook, the latter name likely familiar to many as Dr. Cook is the founder of Skeptical Science. Published in Climate Policy, Samoilienko & Cooks Developing an Ad Hominem Typology for Classifying Climate Misinformation codifies, categorizes and analyzes a large sample of ad hominem arguments derived from numerous contrarian blogs and think-tanks, distilling the following key resul...