Climate Science: State of the Climate in 2018
A brief listing of some of the new climate science reports and poblications that have popped up and caught my attention during the past week.
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Do Not Feed The Climate Trolls
ScienceAlert, the Australian based website that promotes general science news, has announced a comment policy in response to an unprecedented degree of trolling on their Facebook page. Climate Trolls appear to be swarming whenever a climate related science posting is published. Let’s dive in and see what is happening. What exactly is a comment troll? … Read more
The answer is of course 42
A bit of fun today, but first some background. You might, or perhaps might not, be aware that the answer to life, the universe, everything is 42. If you are familiar with this specific cultural meme then you will of course instantly recognise this as part of the plot from the 1979 book by Douglas … Read more
#SROCC – The Shocking new IPCC report is out
Latest IPCC Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (#SROCC) is available. It explains why scientists are freaking out.
Climate Action Summit – Highlights
The Climate Action summit resulted in many 3 minute speeches consisting of promise after promise to do better, increase the use of renewable energy, and curb fossil fuel consumption. It also failed to deliver what had been hoped for by the organisers. Many businesses and private individuals also vowed aggressive targets … but … and … Read more
Climate Action Summit Report: Impacts are accelerating
On eve of climatre action summit, world’s leading climate science organizations jointly produced a landmark new report … “United In Science”