2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45

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

Sun Oct 30, 2016

Mon Oct 31, 2016

Crib notes: UN climate deal to enter into force on 4 November by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Oct 30, 2016
We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Climate Change, We Need a Revolution, Op-ed by Eric S. Godoy and Aaron Jaffe, New York Times, Oct 31, 2016
Coal doesn’t help the poor; it makes them poorer by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 31, 2016
Canada not ready for climate change, report warns by Shawn McCarthy, Globe & Mail, Oct 30, 2016
Polar heatwaves have ice in retreat at both ends of the planet by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 31, 2016

Tue Nov 1, 2016

Berkeley Lab Suggests We’re Underestimating Potential & Uncertainty Of Wind Energy Cost Reductions by Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, Oct 31, 2016
As Earth Warms, the Diseases That May Lie within Permafrost Become a Bigger Worry by Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American, Nov 2016 Print Issue
Prince Charles joins clean soil project to combat climate change by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Oct 28, 2016
Exxon “Enters No Man’s Land” by Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, Oct 31, 2016
Polar vortex shifting due to climate change, extending winter, study finds by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 31, 2016
Lord Stern: we need negative emissions to avoid 2C warming, Climate Home, Oct 28, 2016
Ghost Forests: How Rising Seas Are Killing Southern U.S. Woodlands by Roger Real Drouin, Yale Environment 360, Nov 1, 2016
Clouds dampened warming since 1980s, study shows by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Oct 31, 2016

Wed Nov 2, 2016

In rare move, China criticizes Trump plan to exit climate change pact by Sue-Lin Wong, Reuters, Nov 1, 2016
If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention? by Sarah Parsons, World Resources Insititute (WRI), Oct 28, 2016
It’s time to clear the air on Canada’s coal-fired electricity by Kim Perrotta & Granger Avery, Globe & Mail, Oct 28, 2016
Energy Watch Group Accuses IEA Of Lowballing Renewable Energy Forecasts, Again by Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, Nov 1, 2016
Geo-engineering unlikely to work, conservation group says by Alex Kirby, Climate News Network, Nov 1, 2016
The Doubt Machine: Inside The Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science?, Real News Network, Oct 31, 2016
Arctic warming gives US and Europe the chills by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Nov 2, 2016
Global warming could be breaking up this 200 million year old relationship by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 2, 2016

Thu Nov 3, 2016

Barack Obama is the first climate president by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 31, 2016
Climate change is real and the world is in denial, Op-ed by Martin Wolf, Financial Review, Nov 2, 2016
Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds by Jonathan Watts, Guardian, Nov 2, 2016
‘Everyone Needs to Act’: What Experts Expect From the Summit by Matt Richtel, New York Times, Nov 3, 2016
Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming by Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone Magazine, Nov 3, 2016
5-4-3-2-1: Counting Down Obama’s Legacy on Climate Resilience by Christina DeConcini & C Forbes Tompkins, World Resouces Instittue (WRI), Nov 2, 2016
World needs to cut another quarter off greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Nov 3, 2016
What the election outcome will really mean for climate and energy by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 3, 2016

Fri Nov 4, 2016

Paris climate agreement enters into force: international experts respond by Bill Hare, Harald Winkler, Julia Jones, Luke Kemp, Pep Canadell, Meraz Mostafa & Stefan Rahmstorf, The Conversation AU, Nov 4, 2016
African Wetlands Project: A Win For the Climate and the People? by Winifred Bird, Yale Environment 360, Nov 3, 2016
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change Is Official. Now What? by Keith Bradsher, New York Times, Nov 3, 2016
The US keeps shutting down nuclear power plants and replacing them with coal or gas by Brad Plumer, Vo, Nov 3, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’: A Review by Rob Hopkins, Post Carbon Instittue, Nov 2, 2016
ExxonMobil tells independent groups to preserve records of their climate case communications — including with the press by Steven Muson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 3, 2016
Plant biodiversity at risk as climate changes by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Nov 4, 2016
Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development by Joe Romm, Think Progress, Nov 4, 2016

Sat Nov 5, 2016

For second time in a week, China berates Trump on climate pact threat by Sue-Lin Wong, Reuters, Nov 4, 2016
Climate Pledges Will Fall Short of Needed 2 Degree C Limit by Umair Irfan, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Nov 3, 2016
Climate change chain reactions, bad and good by Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nov 4, 2016
US election result to dominate COP22 UN climate summit by Ed King, Climate Home, Nov 1, 2016
The average U.S. family destroys a football field's worth of Arctic sea ice every 30 years by Warren Cornwall, Science, Nov 3, 2016
Preview: The UN’s COP22 climate talks in Marrakech by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Nov 3, 2016
Big Question on Climate Crisis: How to Inspire Innovation by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Nov 3, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 5 November, 2016

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