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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51
Posted on 23 December 2017 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Editor's Pick
Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump'
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir meets people at a stand of her party set up at the Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik on Oct. 25, 2017.
Credit: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images
Iceland's new prime minister is a feminist and environmentalist who is among the youngest leaders in the world. She has a degree in literature with a special interest in Icelandic crime novels. She appeared in a music video 20 years ago with an Icelandic band, Bang Gang. And she's considered Iceland's most trusted politician by numerous polls.
Her name is Katrín Jakobsdóttir, 41, and she's a mother of three boys and comes from a family of poets and professors. Her new coalition government took power at the end of November, and it spans the political spectrum in Iceland from her Left-Green Movement to the Independence Party to the Progressive Party.
Jakobsdóttir talks with The World's host Marco Werman about everything from what it's like to lead a coalition that straddles the left-right political divide to commuting by bicycle.
Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump' by Traci Tong, PRI, Dec 19, 2017
Links posted on Facebook
Sun Dec 17, 2017
- Arctic Report Card: Lowest Sea Ice on Record, 2nd Warmest Year by Sabrina Shankman, InsideClimate News, Dec 12, 2017
- An American Beach Story: When Property Rights Clash with the Rising Sea by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 11, 2017
- California fire: Resident says neighborhood looks like 'war zone' by Nicole Chavez, CNN, Dec 17, 2017
- Half of U.S. Spending Power Behind Paris Climate Agreement by Stepen Leahy, National Geographic, Dec 15, 2017
- In Kids’ Climate Lawsuit, Judges Question Government Effort to Get Case Dismissed by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 11, 2017
- Some forests aren't growing back after wildfires, research finds by Emily Chung, CBC News, Dec 12, 2017
- Cashing Out From the Climate Casino, Opinion by Bill McKibben, New York Times, Dec 15, 2017
- Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. of Words Like ‘Fetus’ by Sheila Kaplan & Donald C McNeil, New York Times, Dec 16, 2017
Mon Dec 18, 2017
- Greenland's ice sheet is driving global sea level rise. One section is melting 80% faster. by Umair Ifran, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 14, 2017
- World Bank invests $4.5 bln to arm cities against climate change by Sophie Hare, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 14, 2017
- U.S. Military Not Doing Enough to Prepare Bases for Climate Change, GAO Warns by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 14, 2017
- Scientists have beaten down the best climate denial argument, by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Dec 18,207
- Electric Trucks Begin Reporting for Duty, Quietly and Without All the Fumes by Erica Gies, InsideClimate News. Dec 18, 2017
- Major Report: Some Extreme Weather Can Only Be Blamed on Humans by Annie Sneed, Sientific American, Dec 15, 2017
- The White House says climate change isn't a national security threat. The military says it is. by Umar Irfan, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 18, 2017
Tue Dec 19, 2017
- How To Survive Climate Change? Clues Are Buried In The Arctic by Michaeleen Doucleff, All Things Considered, NPR, Dec 17, 2017
- University of Arizona researchers make soil from scratch to fight global warming by Mikayla Mace, Arizona Daily Star, Dec 9, 2017
- China Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Curb Climate Change Emissions by Keith Bradsher & Lisa Friedman, Climate, New York Times, Dec 19, 2017
- Training for Winter Olympics 'going to become harder and harder' with global warming by Eddie Pells & John Leicester, AP/Chcago Tribune, Dec 18, 2017
- Checkmate: how do climate science deniers' predictions stack up? by Graham Readfearn, Planet OZ, Guardian, Dec 18, 2017
- BHP to exit coal alliance over climate change policy, Deutsche Welle, Dec 19, 2017
- Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn't make it go away, Editorial Board Opinion, Los Angeles Times, Dec 19, 2017
- Alaskan snow more than doubles due to global warming: Study, The Straits Times, Dec 19, 2017
Wed Dec 20, 2017
- November 2017 was the third warmest November on record, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dec 19, 2017
- Tax Bill to Preserve Critical Credits for Wind, Solar and Electric Vehicles by Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News, Dec 18, 2017
- Rick Perry’s fake grid crisis just got undermined by more grid experts by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 18, 2017
- From the eMail Bag: Carbon Isotopes, Part 1: The Basics by David Kirtley, Skeptical Science, Dec 20, 2017
- What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA by Talia Buford, ProPublica, Dec 18, 2017
- California sues Trump administration over global-warming gas rules by Kurtis Alexander & David R. Baker, SF Gate, Dec 19, 2017
- Scientists just presented a sweeping new estimate of how much humans have transformed the planet by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Dec 20, 2017
- IEA says world coal demand will rise, despite slashing forecast growth in India by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Dec 18, 2017
Thu Dec 21, 2017
- Trump EPA pick for Chicago office cut enforcement, scrapped climate change information in Wisconsin by Michael Hawthorne, Chcago Tribune, Dec 20, 2017
- Climate change will displace millions in coming decades. Nations should prepare now to help them by
- The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change by Emily Atkin, New Republic, Dec 20, 2017
- Baked Alaska: 49th state is having an insanely warm December by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Dec 19, 2017
- Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater by Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, Dec 21, 2017
- Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds by Hans Nicholas Jong, Mongabay, Dec 21, 2017
- A provocative new study says climate change will make Europe’s migrant crisis even worse by Chris Monney & Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Dec 21, 2017
- Latest California Climate Liability Lawsuit Filed by Santa Cruz by Lynn Zisner, Climate Liability News, Dec 20, 2017
Fri Dec 22, 2017
- Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity by Loren Bell, Mongabay, Dec 19, 2017
- Losing the wilderness: a 10th has gone since 1992 – and gone for good by Susan Chenery, Environment, Guardian, Dec 20, 2017
- The New Climate Watchdogs: Democratic Attorneys General Take on Trump by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Dec 20, 2017
- Bioenergy ‘flaw’ under EU renewable target could raise emissions, Guest Post by John Beddinton, Carbon Brief, Dec 19, 2017
- Turnbull has politicked himself into irrelevance on energy and climate in 2018 by Alan Pears, The Conversation AU, Dec 21, 2017
- Science Teachers Respond to Climate Materials Sent by Heartland Institute by Neela Banajee & Jessica Lee, InsideClimate News, Dec 22, 2017
- Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump' by Traci Tong, PRI, Dec 19, 2017
- 2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review, Carbon Brief, Dec 20, 2017
Sat Dec 23, 2017
- Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise? by Alex Kasprak, Snopes, Dec 22, 2017
- The Republican Tax Bill Will Devastate Science, Opinion by Ed Perlmutter, Observations, Scientific American, Dec 22, 2017
- How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Dec 22, 2017
- Meet the Lawyer Trying to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki, Vice, Dec 22, 2017
- Brain Drain At the EPA by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, and Marina Affo & Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, Dec. 22, 2017
- In 'defense of science,' researchers sue EPA over move to overhaul advisory boards by Sarah Kaplan & Brady Dennis, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Dec 21, 2017
- California's Thomas Fire torches record books, as 'normal' climate burns away, Analysis by Barry Saxifrage, National Observer, Dec 23, 2017
- It’s Not the Heat. It’s the Humidity. by Neel V Patel, Slate Dec 22, 2017
Islanders don't have last names. "Jakobsdóttir" means "Jakob's daughter", rather obvious for english speakers. You should call Island's PM by her first name Katrin, and you can omit her father's name if there is no ambiguity. I think (although I'm not an expert in Nordik culture) such omission is definitely not denigrating in any way even in some formal situations, while calling her just "Jakob's daughter" (as this article does) is likely insulting.
No surprise, they don't need last names as there are only 300 000 of them (2/3 in Reykjavik) so in small communities there is rarely a need to disambiguate names. And the names, I suspect may have many more forms and flavours than e.g. English given names.
[TD] Fixed per request: Removed "only."