Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559 • Watts Up With That?
“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”
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“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”
Letter writers suggest link between oddly colored lobsters and climate change, note contradictions in Portsmouth's approach to open space and more.
The European heatwave may last into August, the World Meteorological Organisation warns.
Events to the extreme? lots of years we have heat waves and the flooding in vermont. but it feels different now. it feels like we're hitting a tipping point. >> we're already seeing record heat, jim, two to one. record warmth outpacing record cold. that's pretty significant. the google climate models are showing that could be 15 to 1. that is wild to see we will see that much less cold. what we're seeing across parts of the southwest, death valley has the potential of seeing the all-time highest everyone ever recorded on earth. if you look at these climate records, they have been around since ...
Housekeeping A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last week's edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasn't. 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 week's edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF links appear to be working properly.