2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #25

Stories we promoted this week, by publication date:

Before June 16

• ‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expert, Environment, The Guardian, Karen McVeigh.
• Thinking a greener future is costly? The fingerprints of climate change are already all over this budget, ABC News, Jess Davis and Tim Leslie. If budgets are the government's attempt to chart the course for the next few years, what can this one teach us about how climate change is leaving its mark, and how the government is looking to tackle it?
• Major shift in global climate patterns is unfolding now, federal forecasters say, Weather, USA TODAY, Doyle Rice. "El Nin?o is officially over, federal forecasters announced Thursday, but we're not quite in a La Nin?a yet. We're in the middling 'ENSO-neutral' phase."
• Why we're still losing the fight against Methane, ClimateAdam on Youtube, Adam Levy.
• Madrid, Frankfurt, Vienna: How are European cities adapting to heatwaves?, EuroNews, Lottie Limb. As parts of Greece, Cyprus and Türkiye face searing heatwaves, here's how trees, water and green buildings can help.
• Swiss lawmakers reject climate ruling in favour of female climate elders, Weather, The Guardian, Ajit Niranjan. "Co-president of the KlimaSeniorinnen ( ) says declaration is betrayal of older women"
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #24 2024, Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack. Skeptical Science's weekly survy of academic climate research and governmental/NGO reports on matters of climate.
• Hurricane Winds Can Destroy Solar Panels, But Developers Are Working to Fortify Them, Inside Clean Energy, Inside Climate News, Kikley Price. "Gale-force winds and dark skies during hurricanes pose major issues for solar infrastructure."

June 16

• 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #24, Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom & John Hartz. A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 9, 2024 thru Sun, June 16, 2024.
• The Guardian view on the climate crisis and heatwaves: a killer we need to combat | Editorial, Health - The Guardian, Editorial. Britain may be chilly, but from Greece to India, people are dying due to record temperatures. The death toll will grow without urgent action
• Extreme heat to scorch central, southern US on Father’s Day, Weather, CNN, by Ashley R. Williams & Mary Gilbert.
• Once Fruitful, Libyan Village Suffers Climate Crisis, AFP/Barron's, Jihad Dorgham.

June 17

• Is climate change making Florida's flooding worse?, The Climate Brink, Andrew Dessler. Almost certainly yes
• Midwest States Have Approved Hundreds of Renewable Energy Projects. So Why Aren’t They Online?, Clean Energy, Inside Climate News, Kristoffer Tigue. "Faulty studies, supply chain woes and costly grid upgrades are delaying projects and preventing more clean electricity from reaching homes, experts say"

June 18

• What your gut has in common with Arctic permafrost, and why it`s a troubling sign for climate change, Grist, Sachi Kitajima Mulkey. New research into the behavior of microbes in icy soils shows twice as much planet-warming carbon could be at risk of escaping into the atmosphere.
• A stark divide in Texas shows what climate change looks like, Yale Climate Connections, Kait Parker. Part of the state has received record-breaking rainfall. But in drought-stricken west Texas, parched soil is blowing away.
• Opinion: America needs a paradigm shift in how we respond to extreme heat, Opinion, CNN, Mark Wolfe.
• How can media react to disinformation, climate change?, DW, Cathrin Schaer. "Experts say that climate change and disinformation are two of this century's biggest issues. Speakers at DW's Global Media Forum in Bonn discussed how journalists can respond when the two intersect."
• Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims reported dead amid extraordinary heat, Scientific American, by Marianne Cooper & Maxim Voronov. "We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our heads in the sand and why we need to pull them out, fast"
• 12 climate books to bring with you on summer vacation, Yale Climate Connections, Michael Svoboda. "From sports to thrillers to photography, these books make for quick and entertaining reads."

June 19

• Scorching heat waves test a climate-changing world`s resilience, Washington Post, Ishaan Tharoor. In many ways, the climate disaster is already here.
• Helping young people turn climate anxiety into climate action, Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories, Laura Castañón, Tufts University.
• Miami entering a state of unreality: Adaptation to climate change can’t fix the city’s water problems, Floodlight & The Atlantic,, by Mario Alejandro Ariza. "As record rainfalls pound south Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis decries ‘radical green zealots’ who want him to do more."

June 20

• TV Weather Gets Political, NYT > Climate and Environment, David Gelles. On-air meteorologists have become a target in the culture wars as they report on the effects of climate change.
• Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely, Climate, AP News, Seth Borenstein.
• Extreme heat killing more than 100 people in Mexico hotter and much more likely due to climate change, World Weather Attribution, Staff. "End of May and beginning of June 2024, Mexico and surrounding regions experienced extreme heat. Mexico already reported 125 heat-related deaths this season."
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #25 2024, Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack. Our weekly roundup of academic research related to our accidental changing of our climate change, plus government and NGO reports touching to this topic.

June 21

• Youth activists win `unprecedented` climate settlement in Hawaii, The Guardian, Dharna Noor and Lois Beckett. State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement
• Oil Projects Must Consider Full Climate Impact, Top U.K. Court Rules, NYT > Climate and Environment, Jenny Gross. Previously, local council and planning groups in Britain had to weigh only the planet-warming emissions from their own operations.
• A new global survey shows that people everywhere are concerned about climate change, Climate, NPR News, Jeff Brady. "A worldwide poll from the United Nations of more than 75,000 people shows a vast majority want governments to do more to address climate change."

June 22

• Fact Brief - Was the Medieval Warm Period a global event?, Skeptical Science, John Mason.
• A heat wave is bringing searing temperatures to New York and the I-95 corridor – and Washington DC could hit 100 degrees, Weather, CNN, Dalia Faheid & Samantha Beech.

Posted by BaerbelW on Sunday, 23 June, 2024

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