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Open access notables Marine Heatwaves Overwhelm the Buffering Benefits of Marine Protected Areas: Two Decades of Collapse in a Mediterranean Gorgonian , Zentner et al., Global Change Biology Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are driving mass mortalities of coastal foundation species globally, threatening their persistence and the ecosystems they support. However, long-term demographic evidence of these…
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler and Zeke Hausfather Global temperatures are predicted to soar due to the El Ni o event that is currently ramping up. Most forecasts predict that 2027 will set records, with the global average temperature reaching levels we would not expect until the late 2030s. This plot, from the Washington Post and one of us (ZH), shows how 2027's…
In April 2026 we published a guest blog post by John Lang in which he introduced his " Climate Trunk " graphics project and website. Since then, he has been adding one graphic per week and plans to keep going for about 2 years rounding out the big picture of human-caused climate change graphic by graphic. In this blog post we'll show-case the graphics related to climate science and will keep…
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler and Zeke Hausfather This is the second in our three-part series discussing the use of unadjusted data and how it overstates the warmth of the 1930s over the U.S. See part one and part three for more. Here on The Climate Brink, we've written many many posts about whether temperatures were more extreme in the 1930s than today. Just last…
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 9, 2026 thru Sat, August 15, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) Climate Change Is Rewriting Europe`s Nuclear Cooling Assumptions Much of Europe's existing nuclear fleet was designed around historical ranges of water…
Open access notables Methane Emissions From Wildfires: Trends and Anomalies , Zhu et al., Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Wildfires emit smoke particles and trace gases including greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, impacting the environment and leading to detrimental impacts on human health and economy. The estimation of spatially and temporally resolved methane emissions from…
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink AI energy use is a huge and controversial topic at the moment. Credible estimates have AI data centers accounting for around 12% US electricity use by 2030. But at the same time consumers have been given reassuringly small numbers about the impact of their own AI use, numbers that seem on their face somewhat inconsistent with the staggering size of their…
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs - bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are there enough minerals for solar power expansion to help mitigate climate change? Global mineral supplies are large enough to support solar development for climate change mitigation. A 2023 analysis of 75…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean Sea, no one could have suspected that the meager clump of clouds that remained would go on to become the second-costliest weather disaster in world history. But after crossing Mexico's…
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 2, 2026 thru Sat, August 8, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) El Ni o and climate change are affecting rice crops in weird ways Researchers explain how El Ni o and global warming are combining to create "the haves and the…
