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A listing of 30 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 17, 2025 thru Sat, August 23, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (13 articles) Summer 2025 is roasting hot: these charts show why it matters Data reveal how this year’s back-to-back heatwaves are affecting populations and economies across Europe. Nature, Giorgia Guglielmi, Aug 14, 2025. Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after huge cloudburst "Search f

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 surface temperature records reliable? Surface temperature records are consistent and have been confirmed by multiple independent analyses. Measurements come from over 30,000 stations worldwide, with around 7,000 having long, continuous monthly records. Scientists adjust for known local anomalies such as urban heat islands by comparing urban and rural tren

Open access notables Glacier Geoengineering May Have Unintended Consequences for Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries, Hopwood et al., AGU Advances A bold suggestion to reduce sea level rise is to install underwater barriers to reduce the inflow of oceanic heat around Antarctica and Greenland. Inflow of warm, saline water masses drives ice melt and the destabilization of tidewater glaciers. Whilst the basic theory that barriers would stem oceanic heat flow is uncontroversial, the extent to which barriers might reduce future ice mass loss is less certain. There are numerous concerns about the viability and side-effects of this proposed intervention. We use existing

This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics Ted Nordhaus has a recent article in The EcoModernist about why he stopped being a climate catastrophist. His basic argument is that we used to think that we were heading for 5oC of warming, which would have been catastrophic, but are now heading for more like 3oC of warming. Despite this good news, many in the climate science and advocacy community have refused to become less catastrophic. Ted, on the other hand, has change his mind and is no longer a climate catastrophist. I’ve been involved in discussions about this topic for more than a decade, and I don’t think I’d ever have described Ted as a catas

This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). The icy caps of our planet hold a frozen secret. Inside the permafrost, within the Arctic Circle, vast amounts of carbon are stored. And as the climate changes and the world heats, many fear this could lead to a tipping point, where thaw causes a viscous cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. But... Could it? Is permafrost really a tipping element for our planet? And how should we be keeping permafrost frozen - to protect ourselves from as much global warming as possible? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists. The 140-page report – “A critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate” – was published by the US Department of Energy (DoE) on 23 July, just days before the government laid out plans to revoke a scientific finding used as the legal basis for emissions regulation. The executive summary of the controversial report inaccurately claims that “CO2-induced w

A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 10, 2025 thru Sat, August 16, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (14 articles) Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds "Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers found." Science, Inside Climate News, Chad Small, Aug 9, 2025. Fossil-fu

Open access notables State of the Climate in 2024  American Meteorological Society (111MB pdf, indvidual chapters here.) This is the thirty-fifth issuance of the annual assessment now known as the State of the Climate, published in the Bulletin since 1996. Each year the report documents the status and trajectory of many components of the climate system across land, oceans, and cryosphere, and throughout Earth’s atmosphere. Every year, authors of this report introduce new datasets (often with new variables), improved measurement and an

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by SueEllen Campbell Solar and wind energy systems require some means of saving power for times when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. Such approaches, from batteries to gravity, are developing rapidly and in many different directions. The pieces below sample the richness and complexity of this important topic. Batteries It can feel impossible, at least for a nonspecialist, to stay current on research into new kinds of “regular” batteries, never mind those suitable for large-scale energy storage. One fairly promising recent development is the iron-air battery – or, we might say, rust. See “

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Simon Evans Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The rise of renewables is being driven by extremely rapid growth in wind and solar output, which topped 4,000 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 and will pass 6,000TWh by 2026. Wind and solar are increasingly