2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Aug 18 through Sat, Aug 24, 2019
Editor's Pick
How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change
“Instead of worrying about how that future might turn out, I’m going to try to change that future while I still can,” the teen told NBC News.
Greta Thunberg is the driving force behind a movement that has seen more than 2 million teens around the world take part in school strikes against climate change. Eleanor Taylor for NBC News
LAUSANNE, Switzerland ?— Staring through a swarm of photographers and television crews, self-described introvert Greta Thunberg took the stage at a Swiss university last week to pointedly reiterate a message that has captured the attention of leaders and like-minded young women around the globe: The world must take drastic action now to avert ecological and civilizational collapse.
“We know that our future is at risk,” the small, soft-spoken 16-year-old Swede tells journalists at the start of a weeklong youth summit at the University of Lausanne. “We would love to go back to school and continue with our everyday lives, but as crucial as this situation is, as serious as this situation is, we feel like we must do something about this now.”
Thunberg — whose central point is that humanity must immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions that have unrelentingly increased since the start of the industrial revolution, resulting in global warming — is the driving force behind a movement that has seen more than 2 million teens around the world take part in Fridays for Future school strikes against climate change.
On Wednesday, she set off from Britain’s shores on a monthslong journey — she is sailing to avoid flying — that will take her to a U.N. summit on climate change in New York in September, and the COP25 conference in Santiago, Chile, in December.
How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change by Linda Givetash, World, NBC News. Aug 17, 2019
Links posted on Facebook
Sun Aug 18, 2019
- 'This Is Crazy': Scientists Alarmed as Lightning Near North Pole Seen as Latest Sign of Climate Breakdown by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Aug 13, 2019
- Carrie Symonds warns politicians of 'gigantic' climate crisis responsibility, PA Media, Environment, Guardian, Aug 16, 2019
- Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint? by Nassos Stylianou, Clara Guibourg & Helen Briggs, Science & Environment, BBC News, Aug 9, 2019
- NC DEQ releases plan ordered by Cooper to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030 by Lynn Bonner, Politic & Government, Raleigh News & Observer, Aug 16, 2019
- What Would a City-Level Green New Deal Look Like? Seattle's About to Find Out by Kristoffer Tigue, InsideClimate News, Aug 15, 2019
- 'She's a phenomenon': Climate activist Greta Thunberg sailing into stiff winds in U.S., Analysis by Susan Ormiston, World, CBC News (Canada), Aug 17, 2019
- Assessing the Global Climate in July 2019, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Aug 15, 2019
- The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills by Karen Heller, Styles, Washington Post, Aug 15, 2019
Mon Aug 19, 2019
- ‘Our people are dying’: Australia’s climate confrontation in the Pacific by Kate Lyons, World, Guardian, Aug 17, 2019
- Call for Australia's Pacific membership to be suspended over coal by Peter Hannam, Environment, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 17, 2019
- Five ways UK farmers are tackling climate change by David Brown, UK, BBC News, Aug 18, 2019
- "Kochland" Examines the Koch Brothers’ Early, Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial by Jane Mayer, Daily Comment, New Yorker Magazine, Aug 13, 2019
- A Growing Number of Americans Are Alarmed about Global Warming, Opinion by Joseph Holt, Observations, Scientific American, Aug 18, 2019
- Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play? by Phil Mckenna & Dan Gearino, InsideClimate News, Aug 19, 2019
- Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change by Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer & Dale Jamieson, Observations, Scientific American, Aug 19, 2019
- The 6 things you most need to know about Trump’s new climate plan by David Roberts, Science & Health, Vox, Aug 19, 2019
Tue Aug 20, 2019
- Warming climate to stir up more damaging waves as 'rare event' nears: research by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 20, 2019
- Increasing humidity, driven in part by climate change, is making even modest heat waves unbearable, Analysis by Matthew Cappucci, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Aug 13, 2019
- Heatwaves and heavy rain predicted to last longer with climate change by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug 19, 2019
- Medications Can Raise Heat Stroke Risk. Are Doctors Prepared to Respond as the Planet Warms? by Nina Pullano, InsideClimate News, Aug 20, 2019
- What Greenland Might Have Taught Trump about Warming by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News/Scientific American, Aug 19, 2019
- Environmental groups were warned that some climate change ads could be seen as partisan during election period, Canadian Press/CBC News, Aug 19, 2019
- Young activists push interfaith gathering to act on climate change, justice by Eric J Lyman, Religious News Service, Aug 20, 2019
Wed Aug 21, 2019
- Africa’s tropical land emitted more CO2 than the US in 2016, satellite data shows by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, Aug 13, 2019
- Some animals can adapt to climate change—just not fast enough by Jenny Howard, Environment, National Geographic, Aug 19, 2019
- Earth’s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland by Seth Borenstein, AP News, Aug 20, 2019
- Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News/Scientific American, Aug 15, 2019
- Climate change will cripple economies regardless of wealth, economists say by Kate Ryan, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug 20, 2019
- Study Shows Burning Fossil Fuels Is Killing Us — Are You OK With That? by Steve Hanley, Clean Technica, Aug 20, 2019
- Trump’s Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules Shows Signs of Disarray by Coral Davenport & Hiroko Tabuchi, Climate, New York Times, Aug 20, 2019
- Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits, study finds by Justine Calma, The Verge, Aug 15, 2019
Thu Aug 22, 2019
- Environmental groups can still talk climate change during election, says Canada's chief electoral officer by Peter Zimonjic, CBC News, Aug 20, 2019
- Group That Called Extinction Rebellion 'Extremist' Is Funded By Big Energy by Solomon Hughes, News, Vice, Aug 19, 2019
- A Month Ahead of Global Climate Strike, Thousands Pledge to Attend Rallies Across Planet to 'Turn Up the Political Heat' and Demand Action by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Aug 20, 2019
- Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest. by Umair Irfan, World, Vox, Aug 21, 2019
- Brazil’s president baselessly claimed that NGOs set the Amazon on fire on purpose to make him look bad by Sinéad Baker, Business Insider, Aug 20, 2019
- Brazil’s Amazon Fires Highlight The Threat Of Deregulation Amid Climate Change by Alexander C. Kaufman, Travis Waldron & Chris D’Angelo, Huff Post, Aug 22, 2019
- The Way We're Talking About Climate Change Is All Wrong. Here's How We Win Hearts and Minds, Opinion by Lloyd Doggett & Michael Shank, Newsweek, Aug 21, 2019
- Youth to adults — join us in the climate fight, Opinion by Bill McKibben, Boston Globe, Aug 20, 2019
Fri Aug 23, 2019
- 'Game-Changer': Sanders Unveils Green New Deal Plan Detailing 10-Year Mobilization to Avert Climate Catastrophe, Create 20 Million Jobs by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Aug 22, 2019
- Alaska Reels During Summer of Fire, Heat and Floods by Geof Koss, E&E News/Scientific American, Aug 21, 2019
- France's Macron calls Amazon rainforest fires an 'international crisis' by Helen Regan & Jesse Yeung, CNN, Aug 23, 2019
- Europe to see third major heat wave this summer, as temperatures soar from France to Scandinavia by Matthew Cappucci & Andrew Freedman, Capital Weather Gang, Aug 22, 2019
- For Voters, Does Climate … Actually Even Matter? by Robinson Meyer, Science, The Atlantic Magazine, Aug 23, 2019
- Climate change and the Titanic by Peter Gleick, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Aug 23, 2019
Sat Aug 24, 2019
- Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research by Canadian Press, Calgary Herald, Aug 21, 2019
- Ocean warming has fisheries on the move, helping some but hurting more by Chris Free, Environment & Energy, The Conversation US, Aug 19, 2019
- 100-Year Floods Could Soon Happen Annually in Parts of U.S., Study Finds, E360 Digest, Yale Environment 360, Aug 23, 2019
- In pictures: Wildfires ignite across Indonesia, World, BBC News, Aug 23, 2019
- Brazil's former environment head calls raging wildfires 'crime against humanity' by Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug 23, 2019
- How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change by Linda Givetash, World, NBC News. Aug 17, 2019
- The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone by Robinson Meyer, Science, The Atlantic Magazine, Aug 24, 2019
- How the Amazon's fires, deforestation affect the U.S. Midwest by Erik Ortiz, World, News, NBC News, Aug 23, 2019
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 24 August, 2019
