A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 31, 2024 thru Sat, April 6, 2024.
Story of the week
Proxy measurement via Facebook engagement suggests a widely welcoming audience for Prof. Andrew Dessler s The Climate Brink article How extreme was the Earth s temperature in 2023. With our recent Earth surface temperature record gaining prominent media coverage— including many direct remarks by scientists employing adjectives not normally found in scientific parlance— it s not surprising that readers may appreciate an oasis of context and perspective of the kind Dessler provides. A couple of well supported key points come through in this treatment. Only a few years ago we saw a surface temperature graph remarkably similar to what s unrolling right now. Meanwhile, our recent experience remains within projections of climate models and can t truly be seen as an unanticipated outcome (do l