2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Oct 6 through Sat, Oct 12, 2019
Editor's Pick
The world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change, IMF says
The international organization suggests a cost of $75 per ton by 2030.
An aerial view of large icebergs floating as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 16. (Felipe Dana/AP)
A global agreement to make fossil fuel burning more expensive is urgent and the most efficient way of fighting climate change, an International Monetary Fund study found on Thursday.
The group found that a global tax of $75 per ton by the year 2030 could limit the planet’s warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), or roughly double what it is now. That would greatly increase the price of fossil-fuel-based energy — especially from the burning of coal — but the economic disruption could be offset by routing the money raised straight back to citizens.
“If you compare the average level of the carbon tax today, which is $2 [a ton], to where we need to be, it’s a quantum leap,” said Paolo Mauro, deputy director of the fiscal affairs department at the IMF.
The world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change, IMF says by Chris Mooney & Andrew Freedman, Climate & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 10, 2019
Articles Linked to on Facebook
Sun Oct 6, 2019
- Air France Increases Carbon Emissions Offsets to 100% by Alyssa Danigelis, Environment + Energy Leader, Oct 3, 2019
- In an era of climate change, a phrase in the Jewish High Holidays liturgy takes on new meaning by Michael Leifman, Religion, Washington Post, Oct 4, 2019
- For the children's sake, do something about climate change by Greg Weeks, Faith Perspectives, St Louis Dispatch, Oct 5, 2019
- ‘Utter hypocrisy’: Government refuses to stop spending billions on fossil fuel projects across world by Chis Baynes, Environment, The Independent (UK), Oct 3, 2019
- Next EU energy chief backs gas as part of climate transition by Chloé Farand, Climate Home News, Oct 4, 2019
- As Amazon Fires Burn, Pope Convenes Meeting on the Rainforests and Moral Obligation to Protect Them by Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News, Oct 6, 2019
- How Scientists Finally Got Americans to Worry About the Climate, Opinion by Faye Flam, Technology & Ideas, Bloomberg News, Oct 1, 2019
- No Mention of Climate Change in the U.S. National Drought Resilience Partnership by Marc Kodack, The Center for Climate & Security, Oct 2, 2019
Mon Oct 7, 2019
- Water resources minister 'totally' accepts drought linked to climate change by Katharine Murphy, Environment, Guardian, Oct 5, 2019
- U.N. agency weighs options for long-term plane emissions goal, faces China pushback by Allison Lampert, Reuters, Oct 4, 2019
- Christian climate protestors to turn Lambeth Bridge into 'Faith Bridge', Ekklesia, Oct 5, 2019
- River Flows All Across the Globe Are Dropping by Eric Roston, Climate Changed, Bloomberg News, Oct 2, 2019
- Super Typhoon Hagibis may become strongest storm on Earth, The Weather Network, Oct 7, 2019
- If warming exceeds 2°C, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets could raise seas 20 metres in coming centuries by Georgia Rose Grant & Timothy Naish, The Conversation US, Oct 2, 2019
- In the Mountains, Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything, from How Water Flows to When Plants Flower by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 7, 2019
- The Northeast US has a carbon-trading system. It is boosting, not hurting, state economies. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 7, 2019
Tue Oct 8, 2019
- New England winters are on the decline due to climate change, study says by Maria Lovato, Metro, Boston Globe, Oct 7, 2019
- How extreme sea level events are going to increase in Australia by Nick Evershed, Environment, Guardian, Oct 8, 2019
- UK scientists join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests by Lilian Anekwe, New Scientists, Oct 7, 2019
- Sustainability’s Moment of Truth by Nicholas Stern, PS OnPoint Magazine, Oct 4, 2019
- Climate change means geoengineering under pressure to keep our CO2 budgets under control by Malcolm Sutton, Science, ABC News (AU), Oct 7, 2019
- Global Climate Change Investment Heavily Tilted Towards Mitigation and Low on Adaptation by Stella Paul, International Press Service (IPS), Oct 8, 2019
- From the Rooftops, Big Box Stores Are Embracing Solar by Bruce Horovitz, Business, New York Times, Oct 7, 2019
Wed Oct 9, 2019
- Super Typhoon Hagibis puts on a rare display of power in western Pacific as it churns toward Japan by Andrew Freedman, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 8, 2019
- Corporations told to draw up climate rules or have them imposed by Phillip Inman, Business, Guardian, Oct 8, 2019
- Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change by Tik Root, Science, Time Magazine, Oct 7, 2019
- Black Communities Need Climate Change Help, Groups Tell Congress by Stephen Lee, Tiffany Stecker & Dean Scott, Bloomberg Environment, Oct 7, 2019
- Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline by Jonathan Watts, Garry Blight & Pablo Gutiérrez, Environment, Guardian, Oct 9, 2019
- The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me, Opinion by George Monbiot, Comment is Free, Guardian, Oct 9, 2019
- Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions by Matthew Taylor & Jonathan Watts, Environment, Guardian, Oct 9, 2019
Thu Oct 10, 2019
- Cocaine is driving deforestation, climate change, and migration by Justine Calma, US & World, The Verge, Oct 8, 2019
- Eight EU countries call on Timmermans to raise 2030 climate goal to 55% by Jonas Ekblom, Reuters, Oct 7, 2019
- Climate explained: why some people still think climate change isn’t real by David Hall, The Conversation NZ, Oct 8, 2019
- Greta Thunberg, favourite to win Nobel peace prize, honoured at Standing Rock by Oliver Milman, Environment, Guardian, Oct 9, 2019
- Storm in Pacific Ocean on Path Toward Japan by Karen Zraick, World, New York Times, Oct 10, 2019
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors 3 Who Enabled a 'Fossil Fuel-Free World' — with an Exxon Twist by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Oct 10, 2019
- Climate crisis disasters that could get worse if we don't do anything by Michael B Sauter, 24/7 Wall Street/USA Today, Oct 19, 2019
- Top Commerce Department aides orchestrated NOAA’s Hurricane Dorian statement, House Science Committee chair says by Jason Samenow & Andrew Freedman, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 10, 2019&
Fri Oct 11, 2019
- Climate change threatens hundreds of North American bird species with extinction, study says by Bill Weir, Weather, CNN News, Oct 10, 2019
- Climate protesters at London airport say they are 'mainstream' and 'scared' by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 19, 2019
- It’s only October, so what’s with all these bushfires? New research explains it by Chris Lucas & Sarah Harris, The Conversation AU, Oct 9, 2019
- This climate problem is bigger than cars and much harder to solve by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 10, 2019
- The world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change, IMF says by Chris Mooney & Andrew Freedman, Climate & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 10, 2019
- Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Environment, Guardian, Oct 10, 2019
- ‘I’m up late at night worrying about global warming – please can you put my mind at rest?’ by Caroline Hickman, The Conversation UK, Oct 11, 2019
Sat Oct 12, 2019
- The climate crisis and the failure of economics by Jared Bernstein, Vox, Oct 11, 2019
- Brief overview of new IPCC report on oceans and ice risks by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 11, 2019
- Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer by Justin Rowlatt, Science & Environment, BBC News, Oct 11, 2019
- Typhoon Hagibis: Biggest Japan storm in decades makes landfall, BBC News, Oct 12, 2019
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada by Josh Gabbatiss, Country Profiles, Carbon Brief, Oct 8, 2019
- It’s Lights Out in California to Deal With Climate Risks by Daniel Cusick, Thomas Frank & Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 10, 2019
- Billions face food, water shortages over next 30 years as nature fails by Stephen Leahy, Science, National Geographic, Oct 10, 2019
- Fire, Floods and Power Outages: Our Climate Future Has Arrived, Opinion by Justin Gillis, Sunday Review, New York Times, Oct 12, 2019
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 12 October, 2019
