2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #2

The large number of articles included in this week's round-up reflects how many stories about climate change broke during the week. What is captured in this document is, of course, just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.  

Query: Does this edition contain too many articles? Too few? About right?

Note: Given the breadth of issues covered in the articles cited, the comment thread to this post is open ended. All comments posted must, however, conform to the SkS Comments Policy.  

Must Read

• Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years by John Vidal, the Guardian (UK), Sep 17, 2012

Alpine Glaciers

• Global warming: Famed Austrian peak nearly ice-free by Bob Berwyn, Summit County Citizens Voice (Colorado, USA), Sep 10, 2012

Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Warming ocean could start big shift of Antarctic ice by Alvin Sone, University of New South Wales (Australia),  Sep 19, 2012 

Antarctic Sea Ice

• Record-High Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Don't Disprove Global Warming by Natalie Wolchover, Live Science, Sep 19, 2012

Arctic Sea Ice

• Arctic sea ice thaw may be accelerated by oil, shipping by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Sep 18, 2012
• Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for the year and the satellite record, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Sep 19, 2012 
• It’s Official: Arctic Sea Ice Shatters Record Low by Michael Lemonick, Climate Central, Sep 19, 2012
• Earth's attic is on fire: Arctic sea ice bottoms out at a new record low by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Sep 22, 2012

Disease

• 5 Diseases on the Move in North America, Thanks to Climate Change by Katherine Butler, AlterNet, Sep 14, 2012

Ethics

• How US Climate Change Law Must Be Reconciled With Existing International Law and Ethical Obligations by Donald Brown, Sep 16, 2012,  Widener University School of Law, University of Pennslyvania Sep 16, 2012

Food

• Climate likely to cut crop yields in Africa and South Asia by Liz Kalaugher, environmentalresearchweb, Sep 20, 2012

New Normals

• Forest fires: Burn out by Michelle Nijhuis, Nature/News Feature, Sep 19, 2012
• Get used to 'extreme' weather, it's the new normal by Connie Hedegaard, The Guardian (UK), Sep 19, 2012 

Ocean Acidification

• Majority of Coral Reefs at Risk Unless Climate Change is Halted by Joshua Hill, Planetsave, Sep 17, 2012

Ocean Temperature

• Hottest Ever Water Temperatures Off East Coast All the Way Down to the Bottom of the Ocean by Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, Sep 18, 2012

PBS Interview of Anthony Watts

• PBS NewsHour Falls Into “Balance” Trap, Provides Megaphone For Anthony Watts by Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, Sep 17, 2012
• PBS NewsHour's Climate Change Report Raises Eyebrows (VIDEO) by James Gerken, Huff Post Green, Sep 18, 2012
• PBS NewsHour Propagates Confusion On Climate Change by Shauna Theel, MediaMatters, Sep 18, 2012
• A PBS ‘NewsHour’ Blog Post and Broadcast Provoke Viewers’ Ire by Bud Ward, Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, Sep 19, 2012
• PBS NewsHour Science Reporter Miles O’Brien: Climate Denier Segment A ‘Horrible, Horrible Thing’ by Brad Johnson, Climate Progress, Sep 21, 2012

 Public Policy

• As climate change crisis looms, presidential campaigns stay quiet by Erika Bolstad,  McClatchy Newspapers, Sep 17, 2012
• New study (part I of II): Feds underestimate costs of carbon pollution, low-balling climate change's impact on our children and grandchildren, by Laurie Johnson, Switchboard, NRDC, Sep 17, 2012
• Romney Cites Energy Report That Advocates Carbon Price by Michael Moyer, Sep 18, 2012
• Climate Conversations - Is progress on climate change an illusion? by David Hodgkinson, Alertnet, Sep 20, 2012
• House Passes Sweeping Anti-Environmental Bill As Final Business Before Elections by Jennifer Benery, The Huffington Post, Sep 21, 2012
• Elizabeth Warren Warns GOP-Controlled Senate Would Make Climate Denier Jim Inhofe Head Of Environment Committee by Stephen Lacey, Sep 21, 2012

Renewable Energy

• Taxpayers, ratepayers will fund California solar plants by Evan Halper, Ralph Vartabedian and Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times, Sep 20, 2012

Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 23 September, 2012

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