2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #3

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.

Sun Jan 10

Western Australia Wildfire Brings Widespread Destruction by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 8, 2016
Why climate change is an ethical problem by Stephen Gardiner, In Theory, Washington Post, Jan 9, 2016
El Niño making snow now, but climate change 'loads dice' for warmer future winters by Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal, Jan 9, 2016
Environmental Change Rate Unprecedented, Study Says by James Crugnale, The Weather Channel, Jan 7, 2016
The Company Behind LA's Methane Disaster Knew Its Well Was Leaking 24 Years Ago by Melissa Cronin, Motherboard, Jan 8, 2016
Dawn of the Anthropocene: five ways we know humans have triggered a new geological epoch by Jan A. Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams, The Conversation AU, Jan 8, 2016
Revealed: scientists warn climate changes means wild weather in Scotland is the 'new normal' by Rob Edwards, The Herald, Jan 9, 2016
Cash for the Climate Please, Caribbean Leaders Lament by Desmond Brown, Inter Press Serice (IPS), Jan 8, 2016

Mon Jan 11

Wintertime floods among costliest ever by Doyle Rice, USA Today, Jan 11, 2016
Rethinking the Airplane, for Climate’s Sake by Henry Fountain, New York Times, Jan 11, 2016
Britain abandons onshore wind just as new technology makes it cheap by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, Jan 10, 2016
Company Behind Methane Leak Is Ordered to Offset the Climate Damage by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, Jan 11, 2016
The solution for the melting polar ice caps may be hiding in the rainforest, Op-ed by by Paul Salaman, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2016
How Clinton and Blair Talked about Global Warming by Jean Chemnick, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Jan 11, 2016

Tue Jan 12

The surprising way that huge icebergs slow down climate change by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment. Washington Post, Jan 11, 2016
Hot and dry conditions hammer crops that can tolerate cold and floods by Shalini Saxena, Ars Technica, Jan 11, 2016
As Exxon Faces Investigation, Investors Renew Pressure for Stronger Climate Stance by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Jan 12, 2016
NASA study fixes error in low contrarian climate sensitivity estimates by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Jan 12, 2016
Billionaire activist urges Obama to focus State of the Union on climate change by Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2016
Mysterious mass deaths of Alaskan birds baffles scientists by Joby Warrick, Energy & Environment. Washington Post, Jan 12, 2016

Wed Jan 13

Could artificial trees be part of the climate change solution? by Matt McFarland for the Washington Post, The Guardian, Jan 12, 2016
Lack of methane emission reporting poses investor risk-green group by Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Jan 11, 2016
Climate science deniers 'will be pretty lonely,' president says by Devin Henry, The Hill, Jan 12, 2016
Antarctic ice sheet has stopped expanding for the first time in four years by Karen Braun, Reuters, Jan 11, 2016
How Sensitive Is Global Warming to Carbon Dioxide? by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Jan 13, 2016
Obama on Climate and Energy in 2016 State of the Union, InsideClimate News, Jan 13, 2016
Unprecedented: Simultaneous January Named Storms in the Atlantic and Central Pacific by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Jan 13, 2015

Thu Jan 14

IMF calls for carbon levy on ships and planes by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Jan 12, 2016
States’ Electricity Goals Have Limited Reach: Study by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, Jan 13, 2016
Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment. Washington Post, Jan 13, 2016
Greenland’s melting ice sheet: a breakthrough in understanding? by Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, Jan 13, 2016
Experts Fault Reliance on Satellite Data Alone, by Peter Sinclair, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 14, 2016
Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy in 2016, say experts by Larry Elliott, The Guardian, Jan 14, 2016
Kids ask US presidential candidates to debate science by Shawn Otto, Climate Consensus -the 97%, The Guardian, Jan 14, 2016
6 Steps the Obama Administration Can Take in 2016 to Cement its Climate Legacy by Kristin Meek, C. Forbes Tompkins, David Waskow & Sam Adams, World Resources Institute (WRI), Jan 13, 2016

Fri Jan 15

Liberals: Stop Your Climate-Change Hectoring, Op-ed by Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg News, Jan 12, 2016
Will the U.S. Government Stop Selling Fossil Fuels? by Brittany Patterson & Evan Lehmann, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Jan 14, 2016
Leaking Methane Plume Spreading Across L.A.'s San Fernando Valley by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, Jan 14, 2015
Why clean energy is now expanding even when fossil fuels are cheap by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment. Washington Post, Jan 14, 2016
Q&A: How scientists link extreme weather to climate change by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Jan 14, 2016
A judge just dealt a bitter setback to US climate change protesters by Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, Jan 14, 2016
Weird weather rolls on with Hurricane Alex after hottest December, year by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15, 2016

Sat Jan 16

In Climate Move, Obama Halts New Coal Mining Leases on Public Lands by Coral Davenport, New York Times, Jan 14, 2016
Church of England and New York State Fund to Press Exxon on Climate Change by Juliet Samuel, Wall Street Journal, Jan 14, 2016
Activists lose criminal case on climate change defense – but judge praises effort by Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian, Jan 15, 2016
We Might Have Finally Seen Peak Coal by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Jan 14, 2016
Solar power: the next energy jobs juggernaut? by Cristina Maza, The Christian Science Monitor, Jan 14, 2016
Rampant El Nino offers glimpse of future climate risks by Ed King, Climate Home, Jan 15, 2016
Denmark Just Set a Wind Power Record…Again by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 15, 2016
Cancer and Climate Change, Op-ed by Piers J Sellers, Sunday Review, New York Times, Jan 16, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 16 January, 2016

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