What this means: 

  • If a hurricane threatens our coasts this summer and fall, you can come here for the coverage you trust. 
  • We’ll be here to help you understand what’s happening with FEMA, NOAA, and other agencies under the Trump administration. 
  • We’ll be able to keep more people safe with our alerts to communities in the path of extreme weather — both in English and Spanish.  

The support from our audience is beyond our wildest dreams and gives us confidence that our reporting resonates with people in a media landscape increasingly wracked by disinformation. YOU built this, and it’s an honor to create a more activated, climate-aware world alongside our donors. 

And this is truly people-powered journalism: The median donation was $50, and 84% of donations were under $100. Our number of sustaining monthly supporters was multiplied by six, which helps us plan our coverage and retain superstar writers. We’re so grateful to everyone who has signed on as a sustaining donor. Will you join them?  

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Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles - Recap

Posted on 24 June 2025 by BaerbelW

A week ago today, we published a blog post highlighting Sabin Rebuttal #33, which answers the question "What is the effect of hot or cold weather on EVs?". With that blog post, this phase of our effort to turn the report "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles" into individual rebuttals was done and dusted. In this recap we summarize the happenings and provide some behind-the-scenes glimpses into the tasks needed to pull this off. The report was written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024.

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Climate Adam - Silencing Science: Trump's War on Our Climate

Posted on 23 June 2025 by Guest Author

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).

Since President Trump took office in January 2025, he's declared war on climate change research. In this video, I speak with three expert scientists, who explain the devastation caused by Trump's attacks on climate researchers, institutions and reports. These assaults aren't just a huge deal in the USA, where they limit our ability to forecast extreme weather disasters. But they'll also affect our ability to be safe from climate extremes the world over - now and in the future. 

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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #25

Posted on 22 June 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom

A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 15, 2025 thru Sat, June 21, 2025.

Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Science and Research (6 articles)

Climate Policy and Politics (6 articles)

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Fact brief - Is modern warming just a rebound from the Little Ice Age?

Posted on 21 June 2025 by Sue Bin Park

FactBriefSkeptical 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.

Is modern warming just a rebound from the Little Ice Age?

NoGlobal temperatures are warmer today than immediately before the Little Ice Age.

The Little Ice Age was a regional cooling phenomenon caused by internal forcings that mostly moved heat around within Earth’s climate system.

This event affected North America and Europe from 1350 to 1850. While external forcings like volcanic eruptions and decreased solar activity occurred, it was a massive export of Arctic sea ice into the North Atlantic by warm currents that disrupted ocean circulation and triggered prolonged regional cooling.

The end of the Little Ice Age coincided with rising solar output and industrial greenhouse gas emissions. However, since the 1950s, solar activity has declined while global temperatures have increased.

Today’s warming is driven by human emissions, increasing the amount of heat in the system rather than redistributing it.

The late 20th century is the warmest interval in the last 2,000 years for over 98% of the globe.

Go to full rebuttal on Skeptical Science or to the fact brief on Gigafact


This fact brief is responsive to quotes such as this one.


Sources

University of Massachusetts Winter Is Coming: Researchers Uncover the Surprising Cause of the Little Ice Age

Eos The Little Ice Age Wasn’t Global, but Current Climate Change Is

Journal of Geophysical Research Global warming in the context of the Little Ice Age

Salon What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age

Science Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

Nature No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

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Show your Stripes Day on June 21 2025

Posted on 20 June 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom

Every year on 21st June we encourage everyone to participate in "Show your Stripes Day" to start conversations about climate risks and solutions. Springboarding from a crocheted blanket created by fellow University of Reading professor Ellie Highwood, the "warming stripes" graphic was created in 2018 by Prof. Ed Hawkins, who explains the visualization's purpose in this video:

The "warming stripes" have been embraced around the world as a clear and vivid representation of how the climate is changing-- a powerful appeal to urgency in addressing our climate crisis.

From the website of the University of Reading:

What is Show Your Stripes Day?

Show Your Stripes Day is a global moment to share our concern about how the climate is changing and the need for urgent action.

We ask everyone to share the famous “warming stripes”, a powerful visual representation of how temperatures have increased around the world since the industrial revolution.  Created by climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading, each stripe represents one year. The colours transition from cool blues to warm reds to represent the increases in temperature seen throughout the past 150 years or more.

On 21 June we call on individuals, businesses, and cities around the world to highlight their local climate stripes and share the powerful message they convey.

Why is it important?

Show Your Stripes Day provides a simple, yet impactful way to communicate the reality of climate change. By condensing decades of temperature data into a series of recognisable stripes, it makes understanding global warming accessible to all, from being able to recreate the stripes in schools, to sharing local stripes across social media.

The stripes have also been important for striking up global conversations. In the past, on this day, they have been displayed in a wide range of prominent public spaces, from Times Square, New York, to the While Cliffs of Dover, UK. By displaying the stripes in locations worldwide, people have been inspired to download and share the stripes online and help spread their message.

2024 was the warmest year on record globally.  Extreme weather events continue to be seen more frequently around the world. Never has the need to address climate change been more urgent.

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