Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5, 2021
BAMS Extreme Events of 2019
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has published its annual retrospective on 2019 s extreme weather events and their connection to climate change, Explaining Extreme Events of 2019 from a Climate Perspective. The entire collection of articles is available here, (pdf) or as separate pieces down below. Open access, fascinating.
Research productivity
The BAMS 2019 report s author country constituency leads us back to the mission of Skeptical Science, in an elliptical way.
Once we ve gotten past straight climate science denial in the slice of a general population hoping to duck primary responsibility for the accidental mess we ve made of Earth s climate, a fork in the road presents itself, with one major path signed as Solutions Denial. Down that road can be found various novel rhetorical gambits and other creative shirking methods, the destination being