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2014 SkS Weekly Digest #40
Posted on 5 October 2014 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Nuclear power's role in mitigating manmade climate change and the willingness of Evangelical Christians to embrace the overwhelming body of scientific evidence of manmde climate change were the two hot topics on the comment threads of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Garnering the highest number of comments was How did the UK grid respond to losing a few nuclear reactors?, a guest post by Jani-Petri Martikainen. Attracting the second highest number of comments was Dana's Global warming: a battle for evangelical Christian hearts and minds.
Toon of the Week
h/t to Climate Change Guide
Quote of the Week
"There is today a climate movement as there was a civil rights movement and an antiwar movement and a women’s liberation movement and a gay rights movement — each of them much more than its component actions, moments, slogans, proposals, names, projects, issues, demands (or, as we say today, having grown more polite, “asks”); each of them a culture, or an intertwined set of cultures; each of them a political force in the broadest as well as the narrowest sense; each generating the wildest hopes and deepest disappointments. Climate change is now one of them: a burgeoning social fact."
- Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University
A Change in the Climate by Todd Gitlin, The Huffington Post/TomDisptach.com, Oct 2, 2014
SkS in the News
In his Slate article, Climate Science Is Settled Enough, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert pulls no punches in critiquing the Wall Street Journal’s fresh face of climate inaction, Steve Koonin. In doing so, Pierrehumbert links to two SkS articles:
- Global warming not slowing - it's speeding up by James Wright, and
- What does past climate change tell us about global warming? by Howar Lee.
Dana' Guardian post, Social media event – 97 hours of climate experts on the global warming consensus is referenced and linked to in Lisa Song's InsideClimate News article, Scientists to Explain 'Climate at Your Doorstep' at New Online Hub.
SkS Spotlights
Coming Soon on SkS
- Tackling global warming will improve health, save lives, and save money (John Abraham)
- Underestimated ocean warming (Rob Painting)
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #41A (John Hartz)
- GWPF funder Lord Leach – relying on unreliable sources of global warming information (Dana)
- The long hot tail of global warming - new thinking on the Eocene greenhouse climate (howardlee)
- Bart Verheggen Interview: Scientists’ Views About Attribution Of Global Warming (CollinMaessen)
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #41B (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
SkS Week in Review
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40B by John Hartz
- Scientists find human fingerprints all over Australia's hottest year on record, Guest post by Graham Readfearn
- 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40A by John Hartz
- Global warming: a battle for evangelical Christian hearts and minds by Dana
- New and Improved Ice Loss Estimates for Polar Ice Sheets by Robert Way
- How did the UK grid respond to losing a few nuclear reactors?, Guest post by Jani-Petri Martikainen.
- People's Climate March NYC photos by Howard Lee
Nice cartoon. Now we only have to wait for Russ R. to tell us that snowflakes are not really that big. :)
Agree, Bojan, one of the best cartoons I've seen for a while. Deserves special mention.
From the policy frontlines, I think recent selective misquoting of wikipedia by current Australian env minister Greg Hunt, proving him as totaly unfit for his job, did attract the attention os SkS readers.
Now, it turns out Greg not only proved to be ill-informed science denier, but also deliberate obfuscator, because according to smh, BOM warned Greg Hunt about climate change before he cited Wikipedia. So Greg did not just forget to seek the scientific truth on the matter, he deliberately ignored the given truth, replacing it with his agenda. As a scientist, I can only follow Kerry Emmanuel's lead and say I am ashamed to be an Australian but I do precisely qualify that my shame is because we have such env minister.