Will 2025 be the Hottest Year Ever Recorded?
Climate Adam: Will 2025 be the Hottest Year Ever Recorded? Posted on 22 January 2025 by Guest Author 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). 2025 has only just begun, […]
The planet had 58 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2024, the second-highest on record » Yale Climate Connections
The planet was besieged by 58 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2024, ranking second-highest behind only 2023, which had 73, said insurance broker Gallagher Re in its annual report issued 17. The total damage wrought by weather disasters in 2024 was $402 billion, 20% higher than the 10-year inflation-adjusted average. (Gallagher Re’s historical database extends back […]
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4 2025
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4 2025 Posted on 23 January 2025 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack Open access notables Managing and mitigating future public health risks: Planetary boundaries, global catastrophic risk, and inclusive wealth, McLaughlin & Beck, Risk Analysis [perspective]: There are two separate conceptualizations for assessing existential risks: Planetary Boundaries (PBs) and […]
Storm Eowyn brings hurricane-level destruction to Ireland » Yale Climate Connections
The same low-pressure system that brought historic snowfall to the U.S. Gulf Coast early this week intensified into an extremely powerful extratropical cyclone in the North Atlantic, designated Storm Éowyn under Europe’s international system for naming such storms. Éowyn barreled into Ireland and the northern United Kingdom on Friday, January 24, bringing heavy wind damage, […]
SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #04
Latest Posts Archives SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #04 Posted on 26 January 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 19, 2025 thru Sat, January 25, 2025. This week’s roundup is […]
What Christiana Figueres thinks the climate movement can learn from Buddhism » Yale Climate Connections
Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat best known as the architect of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, has turned to a new strategy for protecting the world’s climate: spreading the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Buddhist monk and peace activist who died in 2022. Driven by pain and grief over climate change, Figueres began […]
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2025
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2025 Posted on 2 January 2025 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack Open access notables Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored, Ecker et al., American Psychologist: Recent academic debate has seen the emergence of the claim that misinformation is not a significant societal problem. We argue that the arguments used to support this minimizing position […]
Cargo trucks cause a lot of pollution. Electrifying them could help. » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Every day, thousands of trucks move cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to warehouses. Most trucks run on diesel, which produces pollution that harms people’s health and warms the climate. Browning: “Heavy-duty trucking is responsible for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That is not insignificant. That’s a big […]
2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #01
Latest Posts Archives 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #01 Posted on 5 January 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 29, 2024 thru Sat, January 4, 2025. This week’s roundup […]
Climate news to watch in 2025
It was Earth’s hottest year on record by a wide margin, breaking the previous record that was set just last year by an even larger margin. Human-caused climate-warming pollution and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reached new heights. But the record deployment of clean technology solutions in 2024 prevented emissions from rising even higher yet. Scientists […]