2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #28

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

Sun July 3, 2016

Government Think Tank Pushes Canada to Think Beyond Its Oil Dependence by Kendra Pierre-Louis, InsideClimate News, June 28, 2016
New Ocean Current Simulations Alter View of Climate Change Impacts, San Diego Supercomputer Center-USC Dan Diego, July 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Ambitious Climate Change Plan Avoids Carbon Tax by Coral Davenport, New York Times, July 2, 2016
Did Exxon Lie About Global Warming? by McKenzie Funk, Rolling Stone, June 30, 2016
What Brexit teaches us about climate change communications by George Marshall, Climate Outreach, June 29, 2016
Amazon biodiversity at risk despite Brazil's forest protection law - study by Chris Arsenault, Thomson Reuters Foundation, June 29, 2016
Coalition's 'war on solar' has sector cutting back, industry groups say by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, June 27, 2016
Brexit spells end to EU leadership in climate diplomacy by Alissa de Carbonnel and Nina Chestney, Reuters, June 30, 2016

Mon July 4, 2016

Vast Peat Fires Threaten Health and Boost Global Warming by XiaoZhi Lim, Ensia/Scientific American, July 2, 2016
Antarctica’s penguins could be decimated by climate change by Elahe Izadi, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, June 30, 2016
'Climate-aligned' investments tipped to soar but Australia's role remains hazy by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, July 4, 2016
Oakland bans coal shipments in a blow to planned export facility by William Yardley, Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2016
Brexit and science: Seven days later by Daniel Cressey, Nature, July 1, 2016
Paris climate deal needs fossil fuel giants to ‘implode’ by Tim Radford, Climate News Network/Climate Home, July 4, 2016
A Remote Pacific Nation, Threatened by Rising Seas by Mike Ives, New York Times, July 2, 2016
Climate change makes flood more likely, more damaging, experts by Ken Ward Jr., Charleston (WV) Gazette-mail, July 4, 2016

Tue July 5, 2016

First 6 months of 2016 hottest ever recorded in New Zealand by Nick Perry, Phys.org, July 4, 2016
Gas Stations Slap Cap-and-trade 'Cost' Labels on Pumps by Anne C. Mulkern, ClimateWire/Scientific American, July 1, 2016
Expanding Antarctic Sea Ice Linked to Natural Variability by Laura Snider, AtmosNews, UCAR/UCAR, July 4, 2016
A Model for ‘Clean Coal’ Runs Off the Tracks by Ian Urnina, New York Times, July 5, 2016
New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, July 5, 2016
Climate change: the missing issue of the 2016 campaign by Ed Pilkington and Mona Chalabi, Guardian, July 5. 2016
Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming? by Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, July 5, 2016
Climate Change Could Alter Interactions among Species by Niina Heikkinen, ClimateWire/Scientific American, July 5, 2016

Wed July 6, 2016

Wind power plant in Atacama Desert fills Chile's clean-energy sails by Fabíola Ortiz, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 5, 2016
Norway bids to capture business by capturing carbon by Anca Gurzu, Politico, July 1, 2016
New Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Starts Building a Green Future by Shouqing Zhu, World Resources Instittute, July 1, 2016
Court Decision on Climate Plan Jolts Carbon Prices by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, July 5, 2016
Leave California’s ‘new’ water in the ground, Op-ed by Juliet Christian-Smith, Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2016
Dinosaurs killed off by 'one-two punch' of climate change and asteroid strike – study, Agence France-Presse/Guardian, July 5, 2016
A cheap, simple experiment just found a very effective way to slow deforestation by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 6, 2016
Water world: rising tides close in on Trump, the climate change denier by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, July 6, 2016

Thu July 7, 2016

Miami-Dade Could Ask Developers to Pay for Climate Change Costs by Jessica Lipscomb, Miami New Times, July 6, 2016
As Glaciers Melt in Alaska, Landslides Follow by Henry Fountain, New York Times, July 6, 2016
ExxonMobil May Have Friends In High Places, But Fraud Is Not Constitutionally Protected by Elliott Negin, Huffington Post, July 5, 2016
Arctic sea ice crashes to record low for June by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, July 7, 2016
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and a Way of Life by Nicholas Casey, New York Times, July 7, 2016
Virgin Islands and Exxon Agree to Uneasy Truce Over Climate Probe by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, July 7, 2016
The great tide: is Britain really equipped to cope with global warming? by Simon Parkin, Long Read, Guardian, July 7, 2016
Taiwan braces for super typhoon Nepartak with up to 1 metre of rain expected by Peter Hannam, Sydney Mornng Herald, July 7, 2016

Fri July 8, 2016

Climate scientists are under attack from frivolous lawsuits by Lauren Kurtz, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, July 7, 2016
Hawaii Eyes Offshore Wind to Reach its 100 Percent Clean Energy Goal by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, July 7, 2016
'Sleeper issue' of leaking coal seam gas fields may blow hole in emissions goals by Peter Hannam, Sydney Mornng Herald, July 2, 2016
June was record-hot for the U.S., and billion-dollar weather disasters surge to eight by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, July 7, 2016
Study links heatwave deaths in London and Paris to climate change by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 8, 2016
Fires begin to appear en masse as Indonesia’s burning season gets going by Mongabay Haze Beat, Mongabay, July 8, 2016
CCC: Fracking would breach UK climate goals without tougher conditions by Simon Evans & Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, July 7, 2016
Have conservatives noticed their favorite climate talking point has been obliterated? by Ryan Cooper, The Week, July 7, 2016

Sat July 9, 2016

Oil giant Shell shows its love for millennials in leaked plans to dominate planet's energy by Mike De Souza, National Observer, July 8, 2016
Developing nations to get "tailor-made" advice on climate action by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 6, 2016
Gauging the impact of climate change on U.S. agriculture by Mark Dwortzan, MIT News, July 7, 2016
Calgary versus the car: the city that declared war on urban sprawl by Chris Turner, Guardian, July 8, 2016
Why Brexit Could Be a Terrible Idea for the Environment by Reynard Loki, Alternet, July 3, 2016
A rare “blob” of unusually warm water that did massive damage to California’s marine life has reemerged by Kelsey Kennedy, Quartz, July 9, 2016
ExxonMobil: New Disclosures Show Oil Giant Still Funding Climate Science Denial Groups by Graham Readfearn, DeSmog, July 8, 2016
Global fish production approaching sustainable limit, UN warns by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, July 7, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 9 July, 2016

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