Banks, including some of the world’s largest, are increasingly being held accountable for their financing flows to clients involved with fossil fuels and industrial agriculture, deemed the top aggravators of climate change. Recent reports have spelled out the extent of individual banks’ financial support, causing some to change course.
Open access notables
At our roots Skeptical Science is about cognition of the results of climate science research in the minds of the entire human population. Ideally we d be perfectly communicating understanding of Earth s climate, and perfectly understood. We can only approximate that, but hopefully converging closer to perfection. With the passage of time and a lot of effort on the part of researchers working on how our species thinks, we can inch forward— if we pay attention. With that in mind, two papers in this week s trawl land very close to our home. Each sports results important to climate science communicators but differing in paths and challenges to practical applicability.
The secretary general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Haithman Al-Ghais has raised serious concerns of impending energy chaos