Posted on 19 December 2011 by John Hartz

SkS Highlights

In the article with the puzzling title, Infrared Iris Never Bloomed, Dana skilfully debunks the hypothesis set forth by Lindzen et al. in  Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris? published in 2001. Rob Painting's Ocean Acidification: Corrosive waters arrive in the Bering Sea is the first in a new three-part series on recent findings about the impacts of global warming's evil twin, ocean acidification. Jim Powell concluded his three-part answer to the question,  "Is there a case against human-caused global warming in the peer-reviewed literature?" with the posting of Part 3.

Toon of the Week

The Last U.S. Poll on Climate Change

Source: Joe Mohr's Cartoon Archive

The Week in Review

Here's a listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.

Coming Soon

Here's a list of articles that are in the  SkS pipeline. Most of these articles, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week. 

• Foster and Rahmstorf Measure the Global Warming Signal (Dana)
• The Media and Global Climate Science Communication (Brian Purdue)
• Ocean Acidification Is Fatal To Fish Larvae (Rob Painting)
• Updating the Climate Big Picture (Dana)
• Making Arctic Sea Ice Loss Real (Daniel Bailey)
• Abrupt Climate Change - Causes (Agnostic)
• More Muller Misinformation (John Bruno)

SkS in the News

Skeptical Science was highlighted in Climate Progress' search for the best climate and energy blog posts of 2011.