2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #9

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

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

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 27 February, 2016

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