2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #37
Posted on 10 September 2016 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Sun Sep 3, 2016
- U.S. and China Ratify Paris Agreement, Upping Pressure on Other Nations by John H Cushman Jr. InsideClimate News, Sep 3, 2016
- Melting Glaciers Are Wreaking Havoc on Earth’s Crust by Jenny Chen, Smithsonian, Sep 1, 2016
- Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Sep 3, 2016
- A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere by Patrick Lynch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sep 2, 2016
- Trump Tests Climate Change Denial Against Public Opinion, Real-World Impacts by Greg Dotson & Erin Auel, Think Progress, Sep 2, 2016
- Hurricane Season Is Heating Up. So Is the Planet. Coincidence? by John Schwartz, New York Times, Sep 2, 2016
- Dakota Pipeline Was Approved by Army Corps Over Objections of Three Federal Agencies by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, Aug 30, 2016
- Lawmakers approve new climate plans to help California's disadvantaged communities by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, Aug 31, 2016
Mon Sep 5, 2016
- Energy disruption: Solar plus storage to be cheaper than grid in 2017 by Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy, Aug 31, 2016
- Majority support green groups using 'lawfare' to challenge mining ventures: poll by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 4, 2016
- We Haven’t Seen Many Storms Like Hermine by Eric Holthaus, FiveThirtyEight, Sep 3, 2016
- Paris climate deal: where US and China have led, others must quickly follow by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Sep 3, 2016
- Where do the 10 UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Sep 1, 2016
- Climate Impacts: Melting Glaciers, Shifting Biomes and Dying Trees in US National Parks by Patrick Gonzalez (National Park Service), DeSmog, Sep 5, 2015
- Untrue and dangerous': Climate Change Authority board at war over own advice by Adam Morton, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 5, 2016
- Climate change threatens to double malaria risk from African dams, say researchers by Magda Mis, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sep 5, 2016
Tue Sep 6, 2016
- Electricity prices need to rise to tackle climate change by Clancy Yeats, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 5, 2016
- Pressure grows on UK to ratify Paris climate change deal by Roger Harrabin, BBC News, Sep 5, 2016
- Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation' by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Sep 5, 2016
- Asian typhoons becoming more intense, study finds by Damien Carrington, Guardian, Sep 5, 2016
- Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and polarization by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 6, 2016
- How Climate Change Could Jam The World's Ocean Circulation by Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360, Sep 6, 2016
- Rainforest destruction rises in the Brazilian Amazon by Rhett A Butler, Mongabay, Sep 3, 2016
Wed Sep 7, 2016
- Endangered glaciers: Alpine ice begins Antarctic voyage by Victoria Gill, BBC News, Sep 5, 2016
- For Lizards, Climate Change Is A Deadly — And Complex — Threat by Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, Sep 5, 2016
- Asia needs $7.7 tn to meet climate change: Study, PTI/Economic Times, Sep 6, 2016
- The ‘Father Of Biodiversity’ Fears Trump And Nuclear War More Than Climate Change by Chris D'Angelo, Huffington Post, Sep 5, 2016
- Will ExxonMobil Have to Pay for Misleading the Public on Climate Change? by Paul Barrett & Matthew Philips, BloombergBusinessweek, Sep 7, 2016
- The forecast for Lake Mead: Hot and dry with plenty of anxiety by William Yardley, Los Angeles Times, Sep 6, 2016
- This is New York in the not-so-distant future by Andrew Rice, New York Magazine, Sep 7, 2016
- New Catalyst Could Split Water Cheaply by Umair Irfan, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Sep 7, 2016
Thu Sep 8, 2016
- We just had five 1,000-year floods in less than a year. What's going on? by Scott Weaver, Environmental Defense Fund, Sep 1, 2016
- Here’s What China, U.S. Just Committed to on Climate by John Upton, Climate Central, Sep 6, 2016
- The oceans are heating up. That's a big problem on a blue planet, Op-ed by Bill McKibben, Guardian, Sep 7, 2016
- To Fight Clean Power Plan, Fossil Fuel Companies Paid for Private Meetings with Republican State Prosecutors by Ashley Braun, DeSmog, Sep 7, 2016
- Analysis of Justin Gillis’ “Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun”, Climate Feedback, Sep 7, 2016
- Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying' by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Mark Lander, & Coral Davenport, New York Times, Sep 8, 2016
- Seeing the future of climate policy under the next president, PBS NewsHour, Sep 7, 2016
- La Niña fizzles, making record warm global temperatures more likely by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Sep 8, 2016
Fri Sep 9, 2016
- How likely is an existential catastrophe? by Phil Torres, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sep 7, 2016
- Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record Global Warming by Joe Romm, Think Progress, Sep 7, 2016
- The world has lost a tenth of all its wilderness in the past two decades by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 8, 2016
- Climate change doubled odds of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Sep 7, 2016
- U.S. forests are so full of dead trees that some want to burn them instead of coal by Chris Mooney, Washington Post, Energy & Environment, Sep 8, 2016
- Amazon burns as Brazil signs Paris pledge by Jan Rocha, Climate News Network, Sep 9, 2016
- Ecuador Begins Drilling Oil in a Pristine Corner of the Amazon by Jose Llangari, Reuters, Sep 7, 2016
- California becomes a global laboratory in fight against climate change by Chris Megerian & Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, Sep 8, 2016
Sat Sep 10, 2016
- Japan sees 70 pct chance of La Nina continuing through winter by Osamu Tsukimori, Reuters, Sep 9, 2016
- How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2016 by Dr Ruth Mottram, Dr Peter Langen & Dr Martin Stendel, Carbon Brief, Sep 7, 2016
- The Obama Administration Temporarily Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline by Robinson Meyer, Atlantic, Sep 9, 2016
- Climate change and other human activities are affecting species migration by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 8, 2016
- Yes, Climate Change Does Kill People of Color More by Ashad Rehman, Newsweek, Sep 9, 2016
- Intelligence Director on climate as “underlying meta-driver of unpredictable instability” by Caitlin Werrell & Francesco Femia, Climate & Security, Sep 9, 2016
- Turkish coal plants in line for public subsidies by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Sep 6, 2016
- When is the ‘peak’ of hurricane season? It’s more complicated than you think. by Brian McNoldy, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Sep 9, 2016
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