2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #34

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

Sun Aug 14, 2016

A closer look at Trump’s sentence-like word strings on coal, China, and the size of the Earth by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Aug 12, 2016
Record Flooding in Southeast Louisiana May Get Worse by Bob Henson, WunderBlog, Weather Underground, Aug 12, 2016
Thousands Rescued, Motorists Still Stranded on Interstate in Flood-Soaked Louisiana by Ada Carr and Ryan Phillip, The Weather Channel, Aug 14, 2016
Hitting the plastic slopes: Climate change pushes ski resorts to 'weatherproof' by Nicole Ireland, CBC News, Aug 13, 2016
California wildfire forces 1,000 evacuations and destroys homes, AP/Guardian, Aug 14, 2016
The blob': how marine heatwaves are causing unprecedented climate chaos by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Aug 14, 2016
Who owns the wind? We do, Wyoming says, and it's taxing those who use it by William Yardley, Los Angeles Times, Aug 14, 2016

Mon Aug 15, 2016

War on Climate Terror (I): Deserts Bury Two Thirds of African Lands by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 9, 2016
War on Climate Terror (II): Fleeing Disasters, Escaping Drought, Migrating by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 11, 2016
Northern California wildfires force 4,000 to evacuate by Tiffany Ap & Joe Sutton, CNN, Aug 15, 2016
Historic Flood Event in Louisiana From 20-30 Inches of Rain by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, Aug 14, 2016
Climate urgency: we've locked in more global warming than people realize by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Aug 15, 2016
We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target by Andrew King & Benjamin J. Henley, The Conversation AU, Aug 15, 2016
A World at War by Bill Mckibben, The New Republic, Aug 15, 2016
Scorching July is World’s Hottest Month on Record by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Aug 15, 2016

Tue Aug 16, 2016

New Evidence Suggests Big Oil Didn’t Borrow Big Tobacco’s Playbook to Lie to the Public About Climate Change—They Actually Wrote It by Reynard Loki, Alternet, Aug 10, 2016
What we can say about the Louisiana floods and climate change by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 15, 2016
Malcolm Roberts leaves NASA 'flummoxed' with Q&A climate claims by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 16, 2016
TV Meteorologists Warm to Climate Science by Peter Sinclair, Climate Crock of the Week, Aug 16, 2016
The Galileo Gambit and Other Stories: The Three Main Tactics of Climate Denial, Guest Post by Stephan Lewandowsky, DeSmog, Aug 14, 2016
Scientists Just Say No to ‘Chemtrails’ Conspiracy Theory by Henry Fountain, New York Times, Aug 16, 2016
Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming, Editorial Board, Scientific American, Sep 1, 2016 Print Issue
Disasters like Louisiana floods will worsen as planet warms, scientists warn by Oiver Milman, Guardian, Aug 16, 2016

Wed Aug 17, 2016

Will the G20 Spur Post-Paris Climate Action? 3 Signs to Look For by Andrew Light & Helen Mountford, World Resources Institute (WRI), Aug 15, 2016
Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over Climate Change? by Margaret Hetherman, Scientific American, Augt 16, 2016
Blue Cut Fire in Cajon Pass Explodes to 18,000 Acres, 0 Percent Contained; State of Emergency; Declared by Cindy Von Quednow, Seve Kuzi & Christina Pascucci, KTLA 5 News, Aug 16, 2016
New Koch-Funded Group ‘Fueling US Forward’ Aims to Promote the "Positives" of Fossil Fuels by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog, Aug 14, 2016
Imperiled Alaskan village to decide whether to relocate due to global warming by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Aug 16, 2016
Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change by Jonah Engel Bromwichaug, New York Times, Aug 16, 2016
The coral die-off crisis is a climate crime and Exxon fired the gun by Bill McKibben, Guardian, Aug 17, 2016
These stunning blue lakes just gave us a new reason to worry about Antarctica by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2016

Thu Aug 18, 2016

U.K. Approves World’s Largest Wind Farm by Samantha Page, Think Progress UK, Aug 17, 2016
Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of Theory by Piers Sellers, The New Yorker, Aug 17, 2016
U.S. losses from hurricanes set to soar by 2100 - researchers by Alex Whiting, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug 16, 2016
World Humanitarian Day 2016, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Arable Lands Lost at Unprecedented Rate: 33,000 Hectares… a Day! by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Aug 16, 2016
A Trump presidency would spell disaster for the Paris climate agreement by Luke Kemp, The Conversation AU, Aug 18, 2016
Louisiana’s Sinking Coast Is a $100 Billion Nightmare for Big Oil by Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg News, Aug 17, 2016
Historical Data Shows Arctic Melt of Last Two Decades Is 'Unprecedented' by Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News, Aug 17, 2016

Fri Aug 19, 2016

Vancouver Leapfrogs Energy Efficiency, Adopts Zero-Emissions Building Plan by Julian Spector, Green Tech Media, Aug 18, 2016
What Climate Change Skeptics Aren’t Getting About Science by Rhett Alain, WIRED, Aug 17, 2016
Extreme Floods May Be the New Normal by Erika Bolstead, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Aug 18, 2016
Rising seas could ease coral bleaching but will be ‘too little too late’ by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Aug 17, 2016
‘A changing climate is and will continue to put people out of their homes’ by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2016
IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Aug 16, 2016
Alaskan village votes to relocate over global warming by Steve Visser and John Newsome, CNN, Aug 18, 2016

Sat Aug 20, 2016

Ocean Slime Spreading Quickly Across the Earth by Graig Welch, National Geographic, Aug 19, 2016
Anxiety about electric cars misplaced, says study by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Aug 15, 2016
The ludicrous gulf between our climate change goals and reality, in one chart by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Aug 18, 2016
110,000 homes worth a combined $21 billion are in Louisiana’s flood-affected zones, study says by Emma Brown and Sarah Netter, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2016
Climate change: Netherlands on brink of banning sale of petrol-fuelled cars by Jess Staufenberg, Independent, Aug 19, 2016
Solar cell technology: How it works and the future of sunshine by Dr Niraj Lal, ABC Science, Aug 19, 2016
Does Climate Change Fuel Floods? It’s Complicated by Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, Aug 19, 2016
Donald Trump’s trip to Louisiana is the perfect opportunity to talk about climate change, which he won’t by Philip Bump, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 20 August, 2016

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