Posted on 24 October 2021 by BaerbelW

The following articles sparked above average interest during the week: Forget your carbon footprint. Let's talk about your climate shadow, People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors, September 2021: Earth’s 5th-warmest September on record, Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?, How extreme weather and the pandemic have exposed fatal flaws in science communication, The scientific consensus on climate change gets even stronger, and THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.

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• Forget your carbon footprint. Let's talk about your climate shadow. by Emma Pattee, MIC, Oct 12, 2021
• Where’s walrus? Scientists seek public ‘detectives’ to spot giant animals from space. by Adela Suliman, Washington Post, Oct 14, 2021
• Warming Trends: Where Have All the Walruses Gone? Plus, a Maple Mystery, ‘Cool’ Islands and the Climate of Manhattan by Katelyn Weisbrod, inside Climate News, Oct 16, 2021
• Guest post: What 100,000 studies tell us about climate impacts around the world by Max Callaghan and Dr. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Carbon Brief, Oct 10, 2021
• The Biomass Industry Expands Across the South, Thanks in Part to UK Subsidies. Critics Say it’s Not ‘Carbon Neutral’ by James Bruggers, Politics & Policy, Inside Climate News, Oct 17, 2021
• Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking interdisciplinarity by E. Lisa F. Schipper, Navroz K. Dubash & Yacob Mulugetta, Climate Change, Oct 18, 2021
• THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE by UEA, UEA blog, Oct 18, 2021
• Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out  by Olivia Laing, The Guardian, Oct 17, 2021
• How extreme weather and the pandemic have exposed fatal flaws in science communication by Dan Stillman, Washington Post, Oct 18, 2021
• People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors Belief in conspiracy theories and overconfidence are two t by Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning , Scientific American, Oct 15, 2021
• More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change by Cornell University, EurekAlert!, Oct 19, 2021
• September 2021: Earth’s 5th-warmest September on record by Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 14, 2021I
• Women do more to tackle climate change than men: Survey by Louis Westendarp, Politico, Oct 18, 2021
• Climate report: Africa’s rare glaciers soon to disappear by Cara Anna, AP News, Oct 19, 2021
• Young adults worldwide have blunt message for governments: ‘We don’t trust you.’ by Karin Kirk, Article, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 4, 2021
• Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger? by John Timmer, Ars Technica, Oct. 20, 2021
• The Key Insight That Defined 50 Years of Climate Science by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Oct. 20, 2021
• State of the climate: Summer 2021 sets new high for average land temperature by Zeke Hausfather, https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-summer-2021-sets-new-high-for-average-land-temperature, Oct 19, 2021
• How Much Did Ancient Land-Clearing Fires in New Zealand Affect the Climate? by Bob Berwyn, Science, Inside Climate News, Oct 20, 2021
• Kids’ quality of life will depend on today’s climate choices by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 20, 2021
• Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say by Sarah Kaplan, Science & Environmnet, Washington Post, Oct 20, 2021
• ‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action by Eisha Maharasingam-Shah and Pierre Vaux, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Oct 18, 2021
• The scientific consensus on climate change gets even stronger by John Cook, Monash Lens, Oct 21, 2021
• There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26? by Greta Thunberg, The Guardian, Oct 21, 2021
• Microbes that form clouds threatened by climate change by James Ashworth, News, Natural History Museum (UK), Oct 21, 2021
• New terms in Oxford English Dictionary as language of climate crisis takes hold by Emily Beament, PA/Belfast Telegraph, Oct 21, 2021
• Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before by Opinion by George Monbiot, Comment is Free, The Guardian, Oct 20, 2021