2013 SkS Weekly Digest #48

SkS Highlights

Rob Honeycutt's Climate Bet for Charity, 2013 Update garnered the most comments of the  articles posted on SkS this past week. Next in line is 4 Hiroshima bombs per second: a widget to raise awareness about global warming by John Cook and Bob Lacatena. Coming in third is John Cook's Attacks on scientific consensus on climate change mirror tactics of tobacco industry. All three are on this week's "must read" list.

SkS Toon of the Week

 2013 Toon 48

h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists

Quote of the Week

''Australia is now an emerging energy superpower and our argument is if you're serious about nature conservation, and if you're serious about climate change, you can't just keep messing around with domestic issues, you've got to look at the export industry,'' said Wilderness Society national campaign director Lyndon Schneiders.

''We've got to make a decision as a country to keep large coal, oil and gas reserves actually in the ground.''

Australia's Wilderness Society launches legal attack on coal industry by Jill Stark, The Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 1, 2011

SkS Week in Review

Coming Soon on SkS

In the Works

SkS in the News

The new Skeptical Science Global Warming Widget was discussed at Real Sceptic and installed on 36 blogs.

John Cook's Attacks on scientific consensus on climate change mirror tactics of tobacco industry was published in the Newcastle Herald.

Cowtan & Way (2013) was discussed by Zeke Hausfather at Yale Forum and on NL News.

The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was referenced by Media Matters and The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

SkS Spotlights

The International Instittue for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) is an international and multidisciplinary institute at Lund University with the overall ambition to advance and apply knowledge in policy and strategy for sustainable solutions.

We are an international institute within Lund University that creates a bridge between academia and practise in order to meet sustainability challenges.

We provide knowledge and inspire individuals and organizations in the advancement of sustainable solutions.

We educate students with a strong desire to make a difference. We do this through interdisciplinary MSc and PhD programmes, undergraduate courses and executive training. Our educational activities target future decision makers in management and policy for sustainable development.

We conduct interdisciplinary research that explores and advances knowledge in the design, application and evaluation of strategies, policies and tools for a transition towards sustainable solutions.

We engage in continuous dialogue with stakeholders from government, industry and society both in our research and educational activitites.

Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 1 December, 2013


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