This is a re-post from Carbon Brief India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 0.2% over the past 12 months, only the second drop in almost half a century. As a result, India’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement grew at their slowest rate in the first half of the year since 2001 – excluding Covid – according to new analysis for Carbon Brief. The analysis is the first of a regular new series covering ...| Skeptical Science
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 12, 2025 thru Sat, October 18, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven GablesAt the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past. Inside Climate News, Ryan K...| Skeptical Science
In April 2024 we announced the (renewed) collaboration between Gigafact and Skeptical Science to create fact briefs, short but credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. Initially, we published new fact briefs on Saturdays, but switched to Tuesdays earlier this year and while we try to have a new fact brief out each week, we sometimes miss a week due to time constraints and vacations. Regardless of that, we published fact brief #50 - Are hu...| Skeptical Science
Open access notables Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century, Shaw et al., Nature Climate Chang Recent studies have argued that air temperatures over many mountain glaciers are decoupled from their surroundings, leading to a local cooling which could slow down melting. Here we use a compilation of on-glacier meteorological observations to assess the extent to which this relationship changes under warming. Statistical modelling of the potential temperat...| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections A draft report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, or DOE, misleadingly claims that increasing levels of carbon dioxide could be beneficial for agriculture. In fact, mainstream climate experts have found that rising CO2 levels, by causing climate change, are harmful to agriculture overall – and likely to cause food prices to increase. The Trump administration’s claim arose from a draft “critical review” r...| Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Does increasing CO2 have a noticeable effect? The warming effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 is well-established physics, confirmed by direct observation. Experiments in the 1800s by Fourier, Foote, and Tyndall demonstrated how CO2 absorbs infrared radiation — the heat Earth emits back toward space — and re-r...| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink We focus a lot on global average temperatures, but this tends to mask the real local impacts that climate change is having. The land – where all of us live – is warming about 40% faster than the global average, and high latitude regions are warming even faster. One of the many ways to visualize this regional heat is to look at when all time high temperature records were set for each region of the world. Here I’m build upon a Carbon Brief an...| Skeptical Science
A listing of 24 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 5, 2025 thru Sat, October 11, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Climate change behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China"In the Atlantic, we’re watching a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa on October 3 that might develop in about a week as it approaches the Lesser Antilles Islands." ...| Skeptical Science
Open access notables Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires, Cunningham et al., Science Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially and economically disastrous wildfires, partly due to sparse systematic records. Using a 44-year dataset (1980 to 2023) we analyze the distribution, trends, and climatic conditions connec...| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the last few weeks, I’ve often been asked, “What’s the most significant mistake in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?” While the report contains numerous issues, one in particular stands out for its far-reaching implications. I write about it in this post. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (DOE CWG) attempts to analyze and critique the findings from the Intergovernmental Panel ...| Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Do errors in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' disprove climate change? While Gore’s 2006 documentary proved incorrect about the extent and timeline of some predictions, it does not negate the reality, confirmed by decades of peer-reviewed evidence, that humans are warming the planet. One erroneous claim is that K...| Skeptical Science
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 28, 2025 thru Sat, October 4, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) “This Heat Killed Six Football Fields Of Ice”: Swedish Glaciers Gone In One Summer While Earth’s Temperature Breaks All Records"The unprecedented disappearance of eight glaciers in Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain range highlights the urgent and tangib...| Skeptical Science
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).| Skeptical Science
Open access notables The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene, Ravinandrasana & Franzke, Nature Communications Access to water is crucial for all aspects of life. Anthropogenic global warming is projected to disrupt the hydrological cycle, leading to water scarcity. However, the timing and hotspot regions of unprecedented water scarcity are unknown. Here, we estimate the Time of First Emergence (ToFE) of drought-driven water scarcity events, referred to ...| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Kevin Trenberth A new analysis issued by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) found that the evidence linking rising greenhouse gas emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” Climate change is real and it has already resulted in major damage. The main cause is increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, all from human activities. Because...| Skeptical Science
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 14, 2025 thru Sat, September 20, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (5 articles)| Skeptical Science
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 7, 2025 thru Sat, September 13, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (9 articles)| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by SueEllen Campbell| Skeptical Science
A listing of 30 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 3, 2025 thru Sat, August 9, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (12 articles)| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections| Skeptical Science
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 27, 2025 thru Sat, August 2, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (9 articles)| Skeptical Science
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Rafael Méndez Tejeda and Pearl Marvell| Skeptical Science
