Posted on 20 August 2016 by John Hartz

Sun Aug 14, 2016

• A closer look at Trump’s sentence-like word strings on coal, China, and the size of the Earth by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Aug 12, 2016
• Record Flooding in Southeast Louisiana May Get Worse by Bob Henson, WunderBlog, Weather Underground, Aug 12, 2016
• Thousands Rescued, Motorists Still Stranded on Interstate in Flood-Soaked Louisiana by Ada Carr and Ryan Phillip, The Weather Channel, Aug 14, 2016
• Hitting the plastic slopes: Climate change pushes ski resorts to 'weatherproof' by Nicole Ireland, CBC News, Aug 13, 2016
• California wildfire forces 1,000 evacuations and destroys homes, AP/Guardian, Aug 14, 2016
• The blob': how marine heatwaves are causing unprecedented climate chaos by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Aug 14, 2016
• Who owns the wind? We do, Wyoming says, and it's taxing those who use it by William Yardley, Los Angeles Times, Aug 14, 2016

Mon Aug 15, 2016

• War on Climate Terror (I): Deserts Bury Two Thirds of African Lands by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 9, 2016
• War on Climate Terror (II): Fleeing Disasters, Escaping Drought, Migrating by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 11, 2016
• Northern California wildfires force 4,000 to evacuate by Tiffany Ap & Joe Sutton, CNN, Aug 15, 2016
• Historic Flood Event in Louisiana From 20-30 Inches of Rain by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, Aug 14, 2016
• Climate urgency: we've locked in more global warming than people realize by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Aug 15, 2016
• We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target by Andrew King & Benjamin J. Henley, The Conversation AU, Aug 15, 2016
• A World at War by Bill Mckibben, The New Republic, Aug 15, 2016
• Scorching July is World’s Hottest Month on Record by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Aug 15, 2016

Tue Aug 16, 2016

• New Evidence Suggests Big Oil Didn’t Borrow Big Tobacco’s Playbook to Lie to the Public About Climate Change—They Actually Wrote It by Reynard Loki, Alternet, Aug 10, 2016
• What we can say about the Louisiana floods and climate change by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 15, 2016
• Malcolm Roberts leaves NASA 'flummoxed' with Q&A climate claims by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 16, 2016
• TV Meteorologists Warm to Climate Science by Peter Sinclair, Climate Crock of the Week, Aug 16, 2016
• The Galileo Gambit and Other Stories: The Three Main Tactics of Climate Denial, Guest Post by Stephan Lewandowsky, DeSmog, Aug 14, 2016
• Scientists Just Say No to ‘Chemtrails’ Conspiracy Theory by Henry Fountain, New York Times, Aug 16, 2016
• Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming, Editorial Board, Scientific American, Sep 1, 2016 Print Issue
• Disasters like Louisiana floods will worsen as planet warms, scientists warn by Oiver Milman, Guardian, Aug 16, 2016

Wed Aug 17, 2016

• Will the G20 Spur Post-Paris Climate Action? 3 Signs to Look For by Andrew Light & Helen Mountford, World Resources Institute (WRI), Aug 15, 2016
• Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over Climate Change? by Margaret Hetherman, Scientific American, Augt 16, 2016
• Blue Cut Fire in Cajon Pass Explodes to 18,000 Acres, 0 Percent Contained; State of Emergency; Declared by Cindy Von Quednow, Seve Kuzi & Christina Pascucci, KTLA 5 News, Aug 16, 2016
• New Koch-Funded Group ‘Fueling US Forward’ Aims to Promote the "Positives" of Fossil Fuels by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog, Aug 14, 2016
• Imperiled Alaskan village to decide whether to relocate due to global warming by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Aug 16, 2016
• Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change by Jonah Engel Bromwichaug, New York Times, Aug 16, 2016
• The coral die-off crisis is a climate crime and Exxon fired the gun by Bill McKibben, Guardian, Aug 17, 2016
• These stunning blue lakes just gave us a new reason to worry about Antarctica by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2016

Thu Aug 18, 2016

• U.K. Approves World’s Largest Wind Farm by Samantha Page, Think Progress UK, Aug 17, 2016
• Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of Theory by Piers Sellers, The New Yorker, Aug 17, 2016
• U.S. losses from hurricanes set to soar by 2100 - researchers by Alex Whiting, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug 16, 2016
• World Humanitarian Day 2016, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Arable Lands Lost at Unprecedented Rate: 33,000 Hectares… a Day! by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 16, 2016
• A Trump presidency would spell disaster for the Paris climate agreement by Luke Kemp, The Conversation AU, Aug 18, 2016
• Louisiana’s Sinking Coast Is a $100 Billion Nightmare for Big Oil by Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg News, Aug 17, 2016
• Historical Data Shows Arctic Melt of Last Two Decades Is 'Unprecedented' by Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News, Aug 17, 2016

Fri Aug 19, 2016

• Vancouver Leapfrogs Energy Efficiency, Adopts Zero-Emissions Building Plan by Julian Spector, Green Tech Media, Aug 18, 2016
• What Climate Change Skeptics Aren’t Getting About Science by Rhett Alain, WIRED, Aug 17, 2016
• Extreme Floods May Be the New Normal by Erika Bolstead, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Aug 18, 2016
• Rising seas could ease coral bleaching but will be ‘too little too late’ by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Aug 17, 2016
• ‘A changing climate is and will continue to put people out of their homes’ by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2016
• IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Aug 16, 2016
• Alaskan village votes to relocate over global warming by Steve Visser and John Newsome, CNN, Aug 18, 2016

Sat Aug 20, 2016

• Ocean Slime Spreading Quickly Across the Earth by Graig Welch, National Geographic, Aug 19, 2016
• Anxiety about electric cars misplaced, says study by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Aug 15, 2016
• The ludicrous gulf between our climate change goals and reality, in one chart by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Aug 18, 2016
• 110,000 homes worth a combined $21 billion are in Louisiana’s flood-affected zones, study says by Emma Brown and Sarah Netter, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2016
• Climate change: Netherlands on brink of banning sale of petrol-fuelled cars by Jess Staufenberg, Independent, Aug 19, 2016
• Solar cell technology: How it works and the future of sunshine by Dr Niraj Lal, ABC Science, Aug 19, 2016
• Does Climate Change Fuel Floods? It’s Complicated by Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, Aug 19, 2016
• Donald Trump’s trip to Louisiana is the perfect opportunity to talk about climate change, which he won’t by Philip Bump, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2016