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2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #16

A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024.

Story of the week
Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic publication:

Mali , Texas , United-states , Paris , France-general- , France , Jonathan-watts , Giuliana-viglione , Graham-readfearn , John-hartz , Doug-bostrom , Todd-stern

EGU2024 - An intense week of joining sessions virtually

Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in.

France , Brussels , Bruxelles-capitale , Belgium , India , Vienna , Wien , Austria , Bristol , City-of , United-kingdom , Ireland

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #16 2024

Open access notables
Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost, Creel et al., Nature Communications:

Amazonia , Bahia , Brazil , Guangdong , Jilin , China , Indonesia , Portugal , Zimbabwe , United-states , Copenhagen , Køavn-

Fact Brief - Did global warming stop in 1998?

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.

El-nino , Royal-meterological-society-coverage , Sue-bin-park , Skeptical-science , Surface-temperature , Meterological-society-coverage , Global-warming , Keptics , Kepticism , Limate-change , O2-emissions ,

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2024

Open access notables
Global carbon emissions in 2023, Liu et al., Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Germany , Columbia-university , New-york , United-states , Hamburg , Kivimaa , Southwest-finland , Finland , Kipeto , Rift-valley , Kenya , France

EGU2024 - Picking and chosing sessions to attend virtually

This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from April 15 to 19. I decided to join the event virtually this year for the full week and I've already picked several sessions I plan to attend. Among them are two sessions, I'll be presenting in. This blog post provides an overview of my itinerary.

United-kingdom , London , City-of , France , Antarctica , Vienna , Wien , Austria , Great-britain , Roberta-bellini , Maida-salkanovic , Joeri-rogelj

Fact Brief - Was an Ice Age predicted in the 1970s?

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline.

United-states , American , American-meteorological-society , Sue-bin-park , Skeptical-science , Ice-age , Northern-hemisphere , Meteorological-society-the-myth , Global-cooling-scientific , Climate-four , Global-warming

Gigafact and Skeptical Science collaborate to create fact briefs

If 'Fact Briefs' ring a bell you are correct; we published 16 fact briefs a few years ago in collaboration with Repustar. We're happy to announce our restarting the creation of fact briefs together with Gigafact, a nonprofit equipping newsrooms to counter misinformation and protect the democratic process. The technology solution and concepts for Gigafact were actually incubated and tested within Repustar before becoming its own entity.

United-states , American , John-mason , American-meteorological-society , Sue-bin-park , Skeptical-science , Northern-hemisphere , Meteorological-society-the-myth , Global-cooling-scientific , Climate-four , Global-warming , Keptics

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #14 2024

Open access notables
We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States, Novick et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (perspective):

China , Tanzania , Shirmohammadi , Fars , Iran , Stockholm , Sweden , Spain , Carbonne , Midi-pyrées , France , Ukraine

2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13

A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 24, 2024 thru Sat, March 30, 2024.

Story of the week

Antarctica , Jerusalem , Israel-general- , Israel , Israeli , Zach-labe , Doug-bostrom-john-hartz , Doug-bostrom , Paul-brown , Maayan-jaffe-hoffman , John-hartz , Ayesha-tandon