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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #35
Posted on 31 August 2025 by BaerbelW, John Hartz, Doug Bostrom
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 24, 2025 thru Sat, August 30, 2025.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Policy and Politics (9 articles)
- Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built "The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy." Climate, New York Times, Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer & Maxine Joselow, Aug 22, 2025.
- Trump's bogus claim about a 'climate religion` is a pathetic political dodge TheHill.com Just In, Lisa H. Sideris, Aug 23, 2025.
- Don`t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight | Gina McCarthy The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency head The Guardian, Gina McCarthy, Aug 24, 2025.
- Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding Phys.org, Seth Borenstein and Michael Phillis, Aug 26, 2025.
- 20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money Grist, Jake Bittle, Aug 27, 2025.
- Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change `debate` The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past. Grist, Kate Yoder, Aug 27, 2025.
- Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals "The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas." Trump Administration, New York Times, Lisa Friedman, Aug 27, 2025.
- The Endangerment Finding: The Local Perspective Matters Right Now (Template Comment Letter Linked) Climate Law Blog, Amy Turner, Aug 29, 2025.
- Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, set to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission Environment The Guardian, Eric Holthaus, Aug 30, 2025.
Climate Change Impacts (9 articles)
- The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked New York Times, Opinion by Jeff Goodell, Aug 20, 2025.
- World’s climate change crisis has tourists seeking ‘coolcations’ The Strits Times, Staff, Aug 23, 2025.
- Another pause? And then, there's physics, Ken Rice, Aug 24, 2025.
- Vietnam plans mass evacuation, China’s Sanya shuts as Typhoon Kajiki intensifies CNN, Reuters, Aug 24, 2025.
- Record-breaking rainfall flooded Charleston this weekend. What’s next for hurricane season? Charleston News, Post & Courier, Kailey Cota, Aug 24, 2025.
- Wildfire in Oregon destroys 4 homes, threatens thousands more, as Northern California blaze prompts evacuations CNN Weather, AP, Aug 25, 2025.
- Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Experts Fear Trump’s Cuts Will End in a Repeat Catastrophe "Two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Trump administration is on a mission to defund the agency dedicated to disaster response and recovery." Today's Climate, Inside Climate News, Kiley Price, Aug 26, 2025.
- Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. Carbon Brief, Guest Authors: Jamie Hannaford, Lucy Barker, Dr Wilson Chan and Steve Turner, Aug 26, 2025.
- Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds "Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout" Environment, The Guardian, Damian Carrington, Aug 28, 2025.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (3 articles)
- Despite Everything, US Solar Manufacturing Continues to Power Up "T1 Energy of Texas is among the companies that aim to build supply chains for the renewable energy source in this country and reduce dependence on Asian producers." Clean Energy, Inside Climate News, Dan Gearino & Arcelia Martin, Aug 27, 2025.
- To Handle Data Centers, the Electricity System May Need New Rules. Here Is a Proposal "Legal scholars suggest revisiting a core tenet of electricity regulations and taking cues from how officials manage scarce resources such as water in the West. ' Inside Clean Energy, Inside Climate News, Dan Gearino, Aug 28, 2025.
- 5 easy ways college students — and everyone else — can practice sustainability Health, CNN, Gina Park, Aug 29, 2025 .
Climate Education and Communication (2 articles)
- Are universities doing enough to address climate change? Latin America, University World News,, Commentary by Mariana Ceci de França e Silva, Neri de Barros Almeida & Marcelo Knobel , Aug 22, 2025.
- The Future of Climate Change Communication Within Social Media doctorclimatechange.com blog, Stewart Cohen aka doctorclimatechange, Aug 27, 2025.
Climate Law and Justice (1 article)
- 15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers The suit, which follows legal victories in Montana and Hawaii, alleges violations of the state constitution and says Wisconsin law impedes a transition to renewable energy, locking in harmful air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants. Inside Climate News, Dana Drugmand, Aug 22, 2025.
Climate Science and Research (1 article)
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #35 2025 Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Aug 28, 2025.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (1 article)
- AI `Slop` Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions. DeSmog, Joey Grostern, Aug 27, 2025.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 article)
- Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Aug 28, 2025.
Miscellaneous (2 articles)
- 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34 A listing of 30 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 17, 2025 thru Sat, August 23, 2025. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler, John Hartz & Doug Bostrom, Aug 24, 2025.
- DeBriefed 29 August 2025: Record wildfires; Solar myths factchecked; Climate veteran on COP reform An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Aug 29, 2025.
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The link to "5 easy ways college students - ..." iink the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation section is not correct.
Here is the correct link to the CNN Health item by Gina Park, Aug 29, 2025: The 5 easy ways college students — and everyone else — can practice sustainability
I like that the majority of the recommendations are about deliberately limiting energy consumption. That is a significant immediately achievable action to limit the magnitude of climate change impact while the transition to end all human impacts causing climate change is pursued.
Note that the reduction of energy demand due to deliberate ending of unnecessary energy consumption by the portion of the population that cares to be responsibly less harmful and more helpful to Others must not be allowed to excuse delaying the rest of the required transition of human ways of living. The examples of wealthy people living less harmfully than their wealth-peers should be the basis for penalizing those who care less about learning to be less harmful and more helpful to Others.
In addition to my comment @1,
The following needs to become The Common Sense.
How deserving people are of their perceptions of higher status relative to Others should be measured by their actions and ways of living being less harmful than Others.
And among the people who are least harmful, the sub-set of the population most deserving of higher status than all of those who are more harmful, the ranking should obviously be based on how Helpful they are to Others.
An allowed exception is that people who live less than a decent basic life, because of a lack of help from people who are more educated and higher status or harm done by those people are allowed to be harmful to improve their lives.
OPOF @1
Thanks for the heads-up, OPOF! I fixed the link to the CNN-article.