2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
Posted on 22 October 2016 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Sun Oct 16, 2016
- Paris Becomes One of the Most Garden-Friendly Cities in the World by Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, Oct 11, 2016
- The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana's coast gets a rewrite by Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune, Oct 13, 2016
- As long as we have Citizens United, the polluters are going to be in charge of our country by Robert F Kennedy Jr, Guardian, Oct 11, 2016
- Nevada wildfire destroys 22 homes by Pete Burn and Joe Sutton, CNN, Oct 16, 2016
- How a tax on carbon has divided Northwest climate activists by William Yardley, Los Angeles Tiems, Oct 13, 2016
- Pope: to fight hunger combat climate change by Lydia O’Kane, Vatican Radio, Oct 14, 2016
- A collapse in Arctic sea ice volume spells disaster for the rest of the planet by Joe Romm, Think Progress, Oct 14, 2016
- Trump and the Truth: Climate-Change Denial by Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker Magazine, Oct 13, 2016
Mon Oct 17, 2016
- Typhoon Haima May Become a Super Typhoon; Northern Philippines, Taiwan, Southeast China Threat Late in the Week by John Erdman, The Weather Channel, Oct 16, 2016
- We should be putting the brake on the Carmichael coalmine, not hitting the accelerator by Graham Readfearn, Planet Oz, Guardian, Oct 13, 2016
- How the Chemical Industry Joined the Fight Against Climate Change by Hiroko Tabuchi & Danny Hakim, New York Times, Oct 16, 2016
- How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes by Bill McGuire, Observer/Guardian, Oct 16, 2016
- In New Ozone Alert, A Warning Of Harm to Plants and to People by Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360, Oct 17, 2016
- 25 myths and bad arguments about climate change by Fallacy Man, Logic of Science, Oct 17, 2016
- Finance for deep-rooted prosperity is coming by Joseph Robertson, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 17, 2016
Tue Oct 18, 2016
- The debate over saving rain forests has gotten ugly. Now a Brazilian environmental official is dead by Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 2016
- The gap between ambition and action in tackling global warming by Sabine Fuss & Jan Minx, Guardian, Oct 17, 2016
- In Pennsylvania, One Senate Seat With Big Climate Implications by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Oct 17, 2016
- Make America Scientific Again! by Natalie Jacewicz, Scientific American, Oct 17, 2016
- Climate change could drive 122m more people into extreme poverty by 2030 by Claire Provost, Guardian, Oct 17, 2016
- The past two weeks are a perfect illustration of what “solving” climate change will look like by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 18, 2016
- Super Typhoon Haima (Lawin) Reaches Category 5 Strength; Targets Northern Philippines by Jon Erdman, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, Oct 18, 2016
- Earth's streak of record warm months is coming to an end... but it will be back by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Oct 18, 2016
- In wake of Wikileaks, Clinton’s campaign chair seeks to reassure climate activists by Ben Adler, Grist, Oct 17, 2016
- Climate lessons from Matthew, Op-ed by Dana Beach, Post & Courier, Oct 16, 2016
- Sea Level Rise Upping Ante On ‘Sunny Day’ Floods, Climate Cental Research Report, Oct 17, 2016
Wed Oct 19, 2016
- The Conservative Christian Case for Climate Change Action, Op-ed by Mitchell C. Hescox, Time Magazine, Oct 17, 2016
- The Scientist Who Cracked Iran Has a Plan for Climate Change by Eric Roston, Bloomberrg News, Oct 18, 2016
- Nations agree landmark deal to cut HFCs, potent greenhouse gases by Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, Oct 15, 2016
- Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Enemy on the Ballot by Bill McKibben, New Republic, Oct 17, 2016
- Climate Change Will Change How We Grow Food by Daniel Stone, National Geographic, Oct 17, 2016
- Greenland is Melting by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, Oct 24, 2016 Print Issue
- Global Temperature Just Short of Record in September, Says NOAA by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Wunderlog, Weather Underground, Oct 18, 2016
- No longer taken seriously, we're seeing the last gasp of climate denial groups by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 19, 2016
- Where is climate change in the Trump v Clinton presidential debates? by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Oct 19, 2016
- After Lean Years, Big Oil May Emerge Stronger Than Ever by Nelson D Schwartz, New York Times, Oct 19, 2016
- Super Typhoon Haima slams into the Philippines as a Category 4 by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 19, 2016
- Missing from the debates: Climate change, Op-ed by Derrick Z Jackson, Boston Globe, Oct 18, 2016
- Indonesia's Parliament Ratifies Paris Climate Change Deal, AP/ABC, Oct 19, 2016
Thu Oct 20, 2016
- Donald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Oct 19, 2016
- Q&A: Land Degradation Could Force 135 Million to Migrate in Next 30 Years by Manipadma Jena, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 18, 2016
- Wind could supply fifth of world electricity by 2030 - group by David Stanway, Reuters, Oct 18, 2016
- Historical records may underestimate sea level rise, NASA News, Global Climate Change, Oct 19, 2016
- Marco Rubio Once Again Denies Climate Change as Florida’s King Tides Inundate Streets by Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch, Oct 18, 2016
- The Debates Are Over, and No One Asked About Climate Change by Adam Johnson, FAIR, Oct 19, 2016
- Six-year-old Australian Girl Uses Video to Reach out to World about Climate Issues by Dan Bloom, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 18, 2016
- After 16 Months of Record Heat, It’s Time to Elect a President by Tom Randall, Bloomberg News, Oct 18, 2016
- ‘How Do We Get to a Conversation in This Country About Climate?’ by Janine Jackson, FAIR, Oct 14, 2016
- This Antarctic glacier is the biggest threat for rising sea levels. The race is on to understand it by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 20, 2016
- Review: 7 key scenes in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate film Before the Flood by Leo Hickman, Carbon Brief, Oct 20, 2016
- Florida Ballot Measure Could Halt Rooftop Solar, but Do Voters Know That? by Martin Lamonica, InsideClimate News, Oct 20, 2016
Fri Oct 21, 2016
- Scientists find 500 U.S. seabed vents of powerful greenhouse gas by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Oct 19, 2016
- Q&A: We Won’t Go Far Until Climate Issues Are Mainstreamed in Policy by Charles Mkoka, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 14, 2016
- The WikiLeaks emails reveal why Hillary Clinton wouldn’t support a carbon tax by Brad Plumer, Vox, Oct 18, 2016
- Where should you live to escape climate change? Welcome to Boise! by Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, Oct 20, 2016
- The Climate Questions the Next President Should Answer by Brian Kahn & Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Oct 20, 2016
- Stronger-than-expected La Niña may be brewing, Op-ed by Karin Braun, Reuters, Oct 20, 2016
- Climate Change Health Risks: Are Insurance Companies Taking Global Warming Seriously? by Clark Mindock, International Business Times (IBT), Oct 20, 2016
- U.S. Energy Shakeup Continues as Solar Capacity Triples by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, Oct 20, 2016
- Typhoon kills 12, destroys rice fields in Philippines, takes aim at Hong Kong by Erik de Castro, Greg Torode & Farah Master, Reuters, Oct 21, 2016
- Environmentalists’ Disdain for Washington’s Carbon Tax by Shi-Ling Hsu, Slate, Oct 20, 2016
- Scientists just showed what it truly means when a huge Antarctic glacier is unstable by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 21, 2016
- Renewable Energy Is About to Get Supersized by John Platt, TakePart, Oct 21, 2016
Sat Oct 22, 2016
- Clinton says the ‘clean energy economy’ will create millions of jobs. Can it? by Heidi Garrett-Peltier, The Conversation US, Oct 20, 2016
- Beijing is ramping up a years-long effort to shift to cleaner fuels by Meng Meng, Reuters, Oct 20, 2016
- One Nation's Malcolm Roberts asks chief scientist for proof humans cause climate change, AAP/Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 21, 2016
- For European Wind Industry, Offshore Projects Are Booming by Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360, Oct 20. 2016
- Snow Leopards Could Lose Two-Thirds of Their Habitat due to Climate Change by John R Platt, Extinction Countdown, Scientific American, Oct 30, 2016
- Lack of safe walking, cycling infrastructure leading to millions of deaths: UN by Mayank Aggarwal, Live Mint, Oct 21, 2016
- Bolivian glaciers melt at alarming rate by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Oct 22, 2016
- Global wine production expected to fall by 5% due to 'climatic events' by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Guardian, Oct 20, 2016
- Ice detectives race against time as climate change destroys evidence of itself by Dhananjay Khadilkar, Scientific American/PBS News Hour, Oct 20, 2016
- Before the Flood review – DiCaprio's level-headed climate change doc by Peter Bradshaw, Guardian, Oct 20, 2016
- Global warming continues; 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 21, 2016
- Remember When We Thought Climate Change Would Matter This Election? by Sarah Emerson, Motherboard, Oct 20, 2016
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