BeyondKONA: Climate
With each passing year above normal ocean temperatures set new temperature records, fueling stronger and longer El Nino events and superstorms that threaten Hawaii’s residents, environmental assets, and economy.
Hawaii’s sea surface temperature continues to rise; the result of global warming effects on sea and air temperatures caused primarily by human burning of fossil fuels.
West Hawaii’s reef system and many other parts of the state’s island chain have and are experiencing widespread die-off of corals, impacting entire near shore marine ecosystems. Weather and trade wind patterns are changing, the threat of new and stronger super storms is now the new norm, and sea levels continue to rise as Hawai’i remains mostly unprepared for these changes.
- Fact brief - Does onshore wind power need subsidies to compete with fossil fuels?on October 13, 2026 at 3:12 pm
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need […]
- 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41on October 11, 2026 at 3:53 pm
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- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #41 2026on October 8, 2026 at 6:59 pm
Open access notables Committed Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss by the end of the twenty-first century, Lin et al., Nature GeoscienceThe Antarctic Ice Sheet is […]
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- The world without solar and wind?on October 6, 2026 at 8:35 pm
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- America is hurtling toward a power grid crisison October 5, 2026 at 8:05 pm
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- 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #40on October 4, 2026 at 3:29 pm
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- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #40 2026on October 1, 2026 at 7:24 pm
Open access notablesCenturies of global heating from Carbon Majors: Dependence on future emissions pathways, Frierson & Henrie, PLOS ClimateWe perform […]
- Unforced Variations: Oct 2026by group on October 1, 2026 at 5:46 pm
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- The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niñoon September 30, 2026 at 8:50 pm
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- The Worst Case Is Still on the Tableon September 29, 2026 at 8:02 pm
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- Scientists link fossil fuel producers to the West’s worsening water shortageson September 28, 2026 at 7:49 pm
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- 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39on September 27, 2026 at 3:07 pm
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- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #39 2026on September 24, 2026 at 5:55 pm
Open access notables The Increasing Incidence of Boreal and Western U.S. Forest Wildfires and Its Causes: An Overview, Wallace et al., Bulletin of the American […]
- Fact brief - Does wind power require backup from fossil fuels?on September 22, 2026 at 3:44 pm
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- Unforced Variations: Sep 2026by group on September 1, 2026 at 11:33 am
This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please be constructive and keep nonsense to a minimum. The post Unforced Variations: Sep 2026 first appeared on […]
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- Unforced Variations: Aug 2026by group on August 3, 2026 at 11:31 am
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- Unforced Variations: July 2026by group on July 1, 2026 at 9:13 pm
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- Unforced Variations: June 2026by group on June 1, 2026 at 6:45 am
This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please be respectful and substantive. The post Unforced Variations: June 2026 first appeared on RealClimate.
- “The Arctic Council is not dead”by rasmus on May 30, 2026 at 9:38 am
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- Scenarios, schmenarios…by Gavin on May 20, 2026 at 11:16 am
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- Unforced Variations: May 2026by group on May 1, 2026 at 1:23 pm
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- Don’t Trash the Ironboundby ipacha on May 5, 2022 at 10:30 pm
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