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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 wed be perfectly communicating understanding of Earths 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 i...

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 Included in this weeks government/NGO section the World Meteorological Organization has released its annual retrospective of our previous years climate situation, State of the Climate in 2022 (pdf):

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

Open access notables From this weeks government/NGO section and UC Berkeleys Goldman School of Public Policy, an attractive choice: 2035 and Beyond: The Report

Torpid summer publication Its rare these days that a New Research edition sports fewer than 100 new publications, but as with every late summer it seems a lot of folks are on holiday just now. Our listing is driven by journal article publication notices feeding our queries to the academic digital object identifier system (DOI), employing several academic article database API products for compilation. This weeks edition is typical of this time of year; not only are there apparently sliightly fewe...

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan [

Open access notables From our government/NGO reports section, World Weather Attributions latest report Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change:

Efforts to green the planet are in full swing, promising everything from mitigating climate change to stalling land degradation. But how well do these actually work? Often, they sprout up as small-scale tree-planting or agroforestry schemes in far-flung areas. Pinpointing gains isn’t always easy. Visiting each site and verifying vegetal growth over time is a […]

Housekeeping  A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last weeks edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasnt. It seems to be the case that Nature Publishing is passing some duff data into the publication metadata food chain, with the result that Unpaywall (we employ the Unpaywall API to identify open access) is repeating this erroneous input to us. This weeks edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF li...