A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Dec 3, 2023 thru Sat, Dec 9, 2023.
Story of the Week
Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit
The Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of keeping warming “well below” 2C and aiming to limit it to 1.5C is the global benchmark for climate action.
Researchers found that 92% of 165 countries studied are expected to experience extremely hot annual temperatures, defined as a once-in-one-hundred-year hot year in the pre-industrial era, every two years.
Almost every country on Earth could experience extremely hot years every other year by 2030, according to new research highlighting the outsized contribution of emissions from the world's major polluters. The modeling study combined data on historical emissions and pledges made before the COP26 climate summit for cuts from the…
The emissions of just five economies India, China, the US, the EU and Russia over the period 1991-2030 will double the number of countries experiencing extreme hot years every second year by 2030, according to a new scientific paper published in Communications Earth and Environment.