Posted on 9 February 2014 by John Hartz

SkS Highlights

Dana's 2013 was the second-hottest year on record without an El Niño garnered the most comments of the articles posted during the past week and the lively conversation continues. Rog Painting's Why rainbows and oil slicks help to show the greenhouse effect was the second most discussed article.

Toon of the Week

h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists 

Quote of the Week

"True sceptics test a hypothesis against the evidence, but climate sceptics refuse to accept anything that contradicts their beliefs."

Denying climate change isn't scepticism – it's 'motivated reasoning' by David Robert Grimes, The Guardian, Feb 5, 2014

SkS Week in Review 

• 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #6 by John Hartz
• Establishing consensus is vital for climate action by Stephan Lewandowsky & John Cook
• 2014 SkS News Bulletin #1: Keystone XL Pipeline by John Hartz
• 2013 was the second-hottest year on record without an El Niño by Dana
• Debunking climate myths: two contrasting case studies by John Cook
• New Video: Climate, Jetstream, Polar Vortex by Greenman
• Google Earth: how much has global warming raised temperatures near you? by Dana
• Why rainbows and oil slicks help to show the greenhouse effect by Mark R

Coming Soon on SkS

• Unprecedented trade wind strength is shifting global warming to the oceans, but for how much longer? (Dana)
• A methane mystery: Scientists probe unanswered questions about methane and climate change (Roz Pidcock Guest Post)
• Discussing global warming, why does this have to be so hard? (John Abraham)
• Deep Ocean Warming: The Coriolis Effect (Rob Painting)
• 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #7 (John Hartz) 

In the Works

• Dodgy Diagrams #1 - IPCC Residence Time Estimates (Dikran Marsupial)
• Rebuttal to the myth 'CO2 is saturated' (Glenn Tamblyn & jg)
• Honey, I mitigated climate change (Ari Jokimaki)
• Basic and Intermediate rebuttals of 'heatwaves have happened before' (John Cook, Dana, Rob Painting)

SkS in the News

The TCP is addressed in:

• Consensus vs BS by Michael Tobis, Planet 3.0
• Science and Policy posted on the And There's Physics blog site.

Joe Romm gives a shout-out to the Debunking Handbook in his Climate Progressblog post, How To Talk To A Climate Science Denier, If You Must.

Rob Painting's article The Oceans Warmed up Sharply in 2013: We're Going to Need a Bigger Graph generated the following blog posts:

• Last year, the oceans warmed at a rate of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second by Lindsay Abrams
• World's Oceans Got a Lot Warmer in 2013 by Terrell Johnson, Wundergound 
• Ocean temperatures spiked in 2013 by John Upton. Grist
• Climate change is slowly but steadily cooking the world’s oceansy Gwynn Guilford, Quartz

In his Ars Technica post, Interview Regarding REmap 2030 (in which I’m the Interviewee), Zach Shahan uses a graphic, Comparing the Cost oF Climate Action and Climate inaction  from Dana's SKS article, Nordhaus Sets the Record Straight - Climate Mitigation Saves Money.

Tom Engelhardt opens his thought provoking TomDispatch.com essay, Ending the World the Human Way by referencing the TCP. Englehardt's essay has, in turn, been reposted on Mother Jones and a number of other websites.

SkS Spotlights

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