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View In: Skeptical ScienceA listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 4, 2026 thru Sat, October 10, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (5 items) Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deceptio...

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View In: Skeptical ScienceOpen access notables Committed Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss by the end of the twenty-first century, Lin et al., Nature Geoscience The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest source of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections, with uncertainties propagating through emissions scenarios, atmosphere–ocea...

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View In: Skeptical ScienceThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Barbara Grady As the Western United States grapples with severe drought, leading cities to scramble for water and farmers to abandon some crops, a new scientific study has found that 122 major oil, gas, coal, and cement companies and state-owned operation...

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View In: Skeptical ScienceThis is a re-post from The Climate Brink Twenty years ago, wind, solar and other non-hydro renewables were close to a rounding error. In 2005 they supplied a mere 2.0% of the world’s electricity generation. By 2015 that had risen to 6.8%, and by 2025 it was up to 19.8%. According to the IEA Electricit...

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View In: Skeptical ScienceThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections A crisis is brewing for the U.S. electricity grid – one that could make your electric bill skyrocket and thwart efforts to address climate change. To understand the problem, think of transmission lines – the poles and wires that transport electricity fro...

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View In: Skeptical ScienceA listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 27, 2026 thru Sat, October 3, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (7 items) Midterm Battleground State Poll: Political Priorities ...