A New Crisis For Climate Science?

We are just weeks away from the two major climatista jamborees of 2021. The first is the UN COP 26 meeting in Glasgow next month, which the usual people (John Kerry, etc) are calling “the last chance to save the…

IPCC aims to elevate women’s voices in climate science – E&E News

For too long, the world’s foremost scientific body on global warming has overlooked the contributions of female scientists and the unique impact of climate change on the planet’s roughly 3.8 billion women, advocates say. Now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

Global Warming Target Of 1.5°C Based On Shaky Scientific Analysis

The Trudeau government’s decision to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035 in the drive to “net-zero” emissions is part of a global policy agenda kickstarted by a 2018 “Special Report” issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)….

As Bezos talks climate change, Amazon sells disinformation – Los Angeles Times

Soon after Jeff Bezos returned from the edge of space, the billionaire-turned-astronaut delivered a warning to everyone he’d briefly left behind on Earth. “We live on this beautiful planet,” Amazon.com Inc.’s founder — and, until recently, chief executive — said…

The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse. – Vox.com

California’s largest active fire continues to burn Sunday after tearing through a small community overnight. The Dixie Fire, which started earlier this month and has now burned more than 190,000 acres, forced a new wave of evacuations in Northern California…

Visualizing a city’s energy use

(University of Pittsburgh) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation used the City of Pittsburgh to create a model built upon the design, materials and purpose of commercial buildings to estimate their energy usage and emissions.

Influential US climate report moves ahead — under new leadership – Nature.com

NEWS 16 July 2021 With Allison Crimmins completing the new federal climate team, scientists say the fifth National Climate Assessment is back on solid ground. Jeff Tollefson Jeff Tollefson You have full access to this article via your institution. Extreme…

Dinosaurs already in decline before asteroid?

Life was already getting harder for dinosaurs before an asteroid wiped them out.

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How a butterfly tree becomes a web

(SMBE journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)) Scientists reveal a key role for interspecific gene flow in the continent-wide adaptive radiation of the Heliconius butterflies.

Press registration opens for ACS Fall 2021 meeting

(American Chemical Society) Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society, a hybrid meeting being held virtually and in-person in Atlanta Aug. 22-26.