2013 SkS Weekly Digest #18

SkS Highlights

John Cook's Participate in a survey measuring consensus in climate research provides an opportunity for SkS readers to to rate the abstracts of the climate papers with the purpose of estimating the level of consensus regarding the proposition that humans are causing global warming. Dana's Roy Spencer's Catholic Online Climate Myths garnered the most comments of the articles posted during the past week.

Toon of the Week

2013 Toon 18 

H/T to Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog.

Quote of the Week

Corporate America, meanwhile, is also moving forward on climate adaptation. They just call it something else. “A lot of companies don’t use the term for fear of alienating conservative employees and investors,” says Joyce Coffee, who advises Fortune 500 companies on environmental issues for Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm. “They label these investments under standard terms like ‘risk avoidance’ or ‘continuity panning,’ but everyone knows it’s all climate related. Major companies used to fear climate change because they thought it meant new regulations. Now they see it is a direct fiscal threat. Any company with a supply chain is thinking about how to avoid climate disruption.”

Getting rich off global warming by Alexander Zaitchik, Salon, May 5, 2013

The Week in Review

Rebuttal Articles Updated 

Dana's New Research Shows Humans Causing More Strong Hurricanes was incoporated into the rebuttal to the myth, 'Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming'

Coming Soon

In the Works

SkS in the News

ECOS re-posted John Cook's The Conversation article, More evidence for human fingerprint on climate change.

Climate Progress re-posted Dana's New Research Shows Humans Causing More Strong Hurricanes.

John Bruno at Sea Monster referenced several SkS rebuttals in discussing global warming since 1999.

The Rockford Register Star re-posted AndyS' Global Warming: Not Reversible, But Stoppable.

The Daily Blog and The Standard referenced Dana's Real Skepticism About the New Marcott 'Hockey Stick'.

The Guardian Expressed referenced Skeptical Science several times in debunking the 'climate change is a hoax' myth.

HotWhopper referenced Dana's Roy Spencer's Catholic Online Climate Myths.

Scholars and Rogues and Neven's Artic Sea Ice Blog posted about John Cook's Participate in a survey measuring consensus in climate research.

Climate Progress used John Garrett's cartoon from Sarah's Forks in the Road: Last Exit to Two Degrees.

SkS Spotlights

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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 5 May, 2013


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