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Energy majors BP and Equinor have terminated their power agreement with the state of New York to build a 1.26 gigawatt offshore wind farm.

A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science  Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Dec 3, 2023 thru Sat, Dec 9, 2023. Story of the Week Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit The Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of keeping warming “well below” 2C and aiming to limit it to 1.5C is the global benchmark for climate action.

Scientists are specifying how much damage climate change is adding to extreme weather events, potentially influencing court cases, insurance claims and public policy

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6), which will form the cornerstone of climate science for the years ahead.

The sixth report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”.

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.

T he deadly heatwave that hit north-western US and Canada in late June would have been “virtually impossible" without human-caused global warming, a new “rapid-attribution" study finds. The event, which saw temperature records shattered by as much as 5C (9F), has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the Pacific north-west region. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. The heatwave was “so extreme" that the observed temperatures “li...

Environmentalists often bristle when charged with being addicted to gloom-and-doom messages, but every now and then an environmental group will confirm the stereotype. In April 2006,Greenpeace mistakenly posted an incomplete draft press release on its Website that read: “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].”  1 Alan Oxley reports that the conservation group World Wi...

2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #3 Posted on 17 January 2021 by John Hartz Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Video of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Step up climate change adaptation or face serious human and economic damage – UN report Almost three-quarters of nations have some adaptation plans in place, but financing and implementation ...