2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #44
Posted on 31 October 2015 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Sun, Oct 25
- Climate finance dispute slows UN talks as time runs short for Paris by Alister Doyle & Megan Rowling, Reuters, Oct 23, 2015
- Marco Rubio’s Ideas About Climate and Energy Are Terrifyingly Stupid by Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, Oct 19, 2015
- Migration needs a home in global climate deal - UN experts by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 23, 2015
- More torrential rain falls on top of overflowing waters in Texas by Ben Brumfield, CNN, Oct 25, 2015
- Is Naomi Klein Right That We Must Choose Between Capitalism and the Climate? by Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, Oct 23, 2015
- ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation by Melissa Cronin, Motherboard, Oct 24, 2015
- Turnbull government selling Australia short on climate change – Bill Shorten by Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian, Oct 25, 2015
- Climate change lacks 'the immediacy of now' in conflict zones - experts by Rachel Stern, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 23, 2015
Mon, Oct 26
- Clean Power Plan Hits the Books, Soon the Courtroom by Elizabeth Harball and Rod Kuckro, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 23, 2015
- World set to use more energy for cooling than heating John Henley, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
- How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research by Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni, & Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 2015
- Bernie Fraser says Government's moral case for coal mines argument is 'nonsense' by Naomi Woodley, ABC News (Australia), Oct 26, 2015
Tue, Oct 27
- Are fossil fuel companies using IEA reports to talk up demand? by Karl Mathiesen, The Guardian, Oct 23, 2015
- Study: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, Oct 26, 2015
- Indonesia's fires labelled a 'crime against humanity' as 500,000 suffer by Kate Lamb, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
- Greenland is Melting Away by Coral Davenport, John Haner, Larry Buchanan & Derek Watkins, New York Times, Oct 27, 2015
- Miami Beach’s battle to stem rising tides by Joey Flechas & Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, Oct 23, 2015
- Beyond the high tides, South Florida water is changing by Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, Oct 25, 2015
- Global warming could be more devastating for the economy than we thought by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
Wed, Oct 28
- Catholic church calls on UN climate change conference to set goals Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
- Rising Seas Pose Growing Flood Threat by Evan Lehmann & Peter Behr, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 27, 2015
- Hurricane Patricia: The role of El Niño, climate change and good fortune by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Oct 26, 2015
- For GOP and climate change, time has stood still long enough by David Jenkins, The Hill, Oct 26, 2015
- GOP Congressman Goes on a Climate Science Fishing Expedition by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy/Slate, Oct 26, 2015
- If Global Warming Is a Hoax … by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy/Slate, Oct 28, 2015
- The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee by David Roberts, Vox, Oct 26, 2015
Thu, Oct 29
- Buddhists call for strong Paris climate deal to limit warming by Matt McGrath, BBC News, Oct 29, 2015
- Imagine if Exxon had told the truth on climate change by Bill McKibben, The Guardian, Oct 28, 2015
- Everyone’s favorite climate change fix by Cristina Mazda, The Christian Science Monitor, Oct 29, 2015
- Republican Frontrunners Avoid Climate Change by Evan Lehmann, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 29, 2015
Fri, Oct 30
- Breaking the link between a conservative worldview and climate skepticism by Andrew J Hoffman, The Conversation US, Oct 29, 2015
- It’s been Australia’s hottest ever October, and that’s no coincidence by David Karoly & Mitchell Black, The Conversation, Oct 29, 2015
- How Exxon Overstates the Uncertainty in Climate Science by John H. Cushman Jr., InsideClimate News, Oct 29, 2015
- The contrasting fortunes of Atlantic cod in warming oceans by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Oct 29, 2015
- El Niño Could Push CO2 Permanently Above Milestone by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Oct 28, 2015
- Malawi's hydropower dries up as river runs low, menacing forests by Karen Sanje, Thompson Reuters Foundation, Oct 29, 2015
- Exxon Mobil Accused of Misleading Public on Climate Change Risks by Justin Gillis & John Schwartz, New York Times, Oct 30, 2015
Sat, Oct 31
- The "uncertainty loop" haunting our climate models by David Roberts, Vox, Oct 23, 2015
- Climate curbs will slow temperature rise; more needed for 2C goal-UN by Alister Doyle & Susanna Twidale, Reuters, Oct 30, 2015
- Cyclone Chapala Could Bring Eight Years Worth of Rain to Yemen and Oman by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Oct 29, 2015
- Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? by George Monbiot, The Guardian, Oct 30, 2015
- The Seeds of the Corporate Funded Climate Disinformation Campaign, the 1971 Lewis Powell Memo by Dale Brown, Ethics and Climate, Oct 31, 2015
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