Posted on 27 February 2016 by John Hartz

Sun Feb 21

• UN's climate chief to quit, praises Paris agreement by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Feb 19, 2016
• It’s not just what Exxon did — it’s what the oil company is still doing by Bill McKibben, TomDispatch/Grist, Feb 19, 2016
• The Stressed-Out Oil Industry Faces an Existential Crisis by Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg Business News, Feb 18, 2016
• The Kochs Are Plotting A Multimillion-Dollar Assault On Electric Vehicles by Peter Stone, Huffington Post, Feb 18, 2016
• World Leaders Agree to Save the Planet – Now It’s Time to Actually Do It! by Andreas Sieber, Giselle Bernard & Ivo Bantel, Inter Press Service (IPS), Feb 18, 2016
• Cyclone Winston wreaks destruction in Fiji, BBC News, Feb 21, 2016
• For Russian Farmers, Climate Change Is Nyet So Great by Corey Flintoff, NPR, Feb 21, 2016

Mon Feb 22

• El Niño Is Causing A Global Food Crisis by Natasha Geiling, Climate Progress, Feb 18, 2016
• In Britain, a Green Utility Company Sees Winds of Change by Stanley Reed, New York Times, Feb 19, 2016
• Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 18, 2016
• Fossil fuel emissions behind Australia's record-breaking spring heat, suggests study by Graham Raedfearn, Planet Oz, Guardian, Feb 21, 2016
• Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union to Cut Ties With Exxon Over Climate Denial by Zahra Hirji, Inside Climate News, Feb 22, 2016
• Fossil fuel funded report denies the expert global warming consensus by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97 %, Guardian, Feb 22, 2016
• The Grand Climate Bargain That Some Conservatives Could Get Behind by Jeremy Deaton, Climate Progress, Feb 22, 2016
• China to close more than 1,000 coal mines in 2016: energy bureau by David Stanway, Reuters, Feb 22, 2016

Tue Feb 23

• CSIRO climate cuts will breach Paris agreement and cost economy – report by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Feb 21, 2016
• Seas are now rising faster than they have in 2,800 years, scientists say by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 22, 2016
• Antarctica could be much more vulnerable to melting than we thought by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 22, 2016
• Intense deep-ocean turbulence in equatorial Pacific could help drive global circulation by Ker Than, Stanford Earth, Feb 22, 2016
• Science confirms it: Denial of climate change is all about the politics by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 22, 2016
• Opposing Corporate Coup, Campaigners Block Trade Talk Doors by Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, Feb 22, 2016
• When you’re only 8 feet above sea level, global warming isn’t just an idea by Matthew Shofield, McLatchy News, Feb 22, 2016
• To meet the Paris climate goals, do we need to engineer the climate? by Simon Nicholson & Michael Thompson, The Conversation AU, Feb 23, 2016

Wed Feb 24

• Texas Sets Wind Energy Record (Again) by Melissa C. Lott, Plugged In, Scientific American, Feb 23, 2016 
• Paris Pact Promotes But Complicates Carbon Trading by John Upton, Climate Central, Feb 23, 2016
• Sea levels don’t care about climate deniers’ skepticism by Steven Benen, MSNBC, Feb 23, 2016
• Bill Gates Q&A on Climate Change: ‘We Need a Miracle’ by Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg Business News, Feb 22, 2016
• Earth is warming 50x faster than when it comes out of an ice age by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97 %, Guardian, Feb 22, 2016
• Should new UN climate chief come from developing nation? by Bamzi Banchiri, Christian Science Monitor, Feb 23, 2016
• Leading Scientists Say Warming Slowdown Was Real by John Upton, Climate Central, Feb 24, 2016

Thu Feb 25

• Exclusive: New York asks SEC to force climate vote onto Exxon proxy by Ernest Scheyder, Reuters, Feb 24, 2016
• Fiji Cyclone Disaster Is a Sign of Future Challenges by Jean Chemnick, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Feb 24, 2016
• Study Calls For Leaner ‘Carbon Budget’ to Slow Warming by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, Feb 24, 2016
• Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Feb 24, 2016
• Tropical fires fuel elevated ozone levels over western Pacific Ocean by Ellen Gray, Phys.org, Feb 24, 2016
• Scientists Turned Back the Clock on Climate Change by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 24, 2016
• No Bill Gates, We Don’t Need ‘Energy Miracles’ To Solve Climate Change by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Feb 23, 2016
• Bill Gates Explains How to Make Climate Progress in a World Eating Meat and Guzzling Gas by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, Feb 25, 2016

Fri Feb 26

• Oil industry must thwart 'misguided' divestment campaign, says Saudi minister by Alex Pashly, Guardian, Feb 25, 2016
• Did Global Warming Slow Down in the 2000s, or Not? by Gayathri Vaidyanathan, ClimateWire on February 25, 2016
• What California can learn from Australia’s 15-year millennium drought by Stuart White, Andrea Turner & Joanne Chong, The Conversation AU, Feb 26, 2016
• Here’s How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Oil Crisis by Tom Randall, Bloomberg Business News, Feb 25, 2016
• Arctic warming: Rapidly increasing temperatures are 'possibly catastrophic' for planet, climate scientist warns by Ian Johnstone, Independent, Feb 25, 2016
• Eminent climate change scientist courts religion by Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb 24, 2016
• UN science report warns of fewer bees, other pollinators by Seth Borenstein, AP The Big Story, Feb 26, 2016
• Rural electric co-ops, traditionally bastions of coal, are getting into solar by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Feb 26, 2016

Sat Feb 27

• Australia's biggest banks pump billions into fossil fuels despite climate pledges by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Feb 25, 2016
• Did global warming take a hiatus? Depends how you define 'hiatus' by Christina Beck, Christian Science Monitor, Feb 26, 2016
• We’ve reached the point where we need these bizarre technologies to stop climate change by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 26, 2016
• Gas from thawing permafrost could add further to global warming, study says by Ellen Wulfhorst, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Feb 25, 2016
• Rising U.S. Emissions Make Paris Promises Elusive by John H Cushman Jr. Inside Climate News, Feb 26, 2016
• This GOP Congressman’s Crusade Against Scientists Just Got Even More Insane by Tim McDonnell, Blue Marble, Mother Jones, Feb 16, 2016
• We Can’t Solve Climate Change Without Teaching It—Why More Classes Are Heading Outside by Kate Stringer, Yes!, Feb 22, 2016