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2013 SkS Weekly Digest #50
Posted on 15 December 2013 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
John Cook's article, The scientific consensus on climate change - Combating a two-decade campaign attacking the scientific consensus on climate change (free, no paywall) appears in the Nov-Dec (2013) edition of the Europhysics News magazine. By coincidence the cover of the publication features the features the same photo clip art that was used to create the SkS masthead.
Why is Antarctic sea ice growing? attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Global warming is unpaused and stuck on fast forward, new research shows by Dana drew the second highest number of comments.
Looking ahead, Dana attended the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco this past week and will post an article about what he saw and heard.
Toon of the Week
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
Quote of the Week
When asked where to engage the public, (Gavin) Schmidt said: “You have to be tactical and find places where you can be heard. … avoid comment threads of most major newspapers.”
“You can create spaces online that are not noise-free and not discussion-free but are abuse-free. And I think we should create spaces like that.”
Gavin Schmidt … Speaking up and speaking out by
SkS Week in Review
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #50B by John Hartz
- South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and Damage by Stephen Leahy
- Why is Antarctic sea ice growing? by Dana
- Behind the Lines: Herschel's Discovery of Infra-Red by jg
- Global warming is unpaused and stuck on fast forward, new research shows by Dana
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #50A by John Hartz
- New Video: Making the Plio Scene – What the Past tells us about Sea Level by greenman3610
Coming soon on SkS
- Provisional Statement on Status of Climate in 2013 (John Hartz)
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #51A (John Hartz
- In pictures: cutting edge climate science and communication from the 2013 AGU conference (Dana)
- Climate Risk Index 2014: Haiti, Philippines and Pakistan most affected (John Hartz
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #50B (John Hartz)
- Climate and economic models, birds of a different feather (John Abraham)
- Gavin Schmidt … Speaking up and speaking out (Bruce Lieberman)
- 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #51C (John Hartz)
In the Works
- Comments on the Purpose of Privacy (Rob Honeycutt)
- Rebuttal to the myth 'CO2 is saturated' (Glenn Tamblyn & jg)
- Saving the Keeling curve (doug bostrom)
- Thirteen Years of Moths and Flames (jerryd)
SkS in the News
In his Bad Astronomy (Slate) blog post, The Heartland Institute and the American Meteorological Society, Phil Plait links to his prior post about the TCP, New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault.
John Cook touts the TCP in his article, The scientific consensus on climate change - Combating a two-decade campaign attacking the scientific consensus on climate change published in the Nov-Dec edition of Europhysics News.
Clean Technica reprinted Stephan Lewandowsky's SkS article, Like The Iraq War, Media Fails To Report On Climate Change Accurately.
SkS Spotlights
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