Posted on 3 April 2016 by John Hartz

SkS Highlights

New survey finds a growing climate consensus among meteorologists by John Abraham (Climate Consensus - 97%, Guardian) attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change by Pep Canadell & Hanqin Tian (The Conversation) drew the second highest number. 

El Niño Impacts

Water levels may swell up to 80 per cent and could result in flooding as severe as 1998 disaster when the worst El Nino in history killed thousands and affected 220 million across 24 provinces, says flood control official

China’s Yangtze River to face catastrophic spring floods as near record El Nino strikes, South China Morning Post, Apr 1, 2016 

Toon of the Week

Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists

Quote of the Week 

As it turns out, the faith community may have a marked advantage when it comes to dealing with global warming. According to University of British Columbia social psychologist and author Ara Norenzayan, religion primes cooperation. In his work, Norenzayan has found religious societies to be more cooperative than non-religious societies — particularly where a group's survival is threatened.

“Participation in religion seems to make people more likely to suppress self-interest in favor of group norms,” Norenzayan told me. He believes religion may have underwritten the growth of large societies by encouraging cooperation and preventing the exploitation of scarce resources, like water.

Why Faith Communities Might Be Our Best Hope for Fighting Climate Change by James Deaton, Sojouners, Mar 30, 2016

SkS in the News

Robin Andrews included Making Sense of Climate Science Denial in her IFLS article, Ten Awesome Science Courses You Can Take Online For FREE.

How to inoculate people against Donald Trump's fact bending claims by John Cook & Margaret Crane originally published in The Conversation US was republished in The Examiner and Independent Australia.

SkS Spotlights: (e) Science News

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It computes relationships between science articles and news found on the web using a vector space model and hierarchical clustering. It then automatically determines in which category each news item belongs using a Naive Bayes classifier. Finally, it examines multiple parameters (such as timeliness, rate of appearance on the web, number of sources reporting the news, etc) for each news group. The result is an (e) score which represents the relative importance of a news item.

Coming Soon on SkS

• As goes Trump, so goes climate change (Dana)
• Handy resources when facing a firehose of falsehoods (Baerbel)
• Guest Post (John Abraham )
• To meet the Paris climate goals, do we need to engineer the climate? Simon Nicholson&Michael Thompson)
• After COP21: 7 Key Tasks to Implement the Paris Agreement (Eliza Northrop & Melisa Krnjaic)
• 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #15 (John Hartz)
• 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #15 (John Hartz)

Poster of the Week

SkS Week in Review 

• 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #14 by John Hartz
• Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change by Pep Canadell & Hanqin Tian (The Conversation)
• Why is 2016 smashing heat records? by Karl Mathiesen (Guardian)
• Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris by John Church, Alistair Hobday, Andrew Lenton;&Steve Rintoul (The Conversation)
• New survey finds a growing climate consensus among meteorologists by John Abraham (Climate Consensus - 97%, Guardian) 
• 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #13 by John Hartz

97 Hours of Consensus: Ulrike Lohmann

Ulrike Lohmann's bio page & Quote source (German)