2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #29

Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Policy and Politics (7 articles)

• Dangerous weather predictions will get tougher after these Trump administration actions The decision by the Department of Defense to stop providing data to NOAA is just the latest challenge for the agency this year. USA Today, Dinah Voyles Pulver, July 10, 2025.
• US State Department Fires More Than 1,300 Employees Even while climate change inexorably will win the ''war,'' climate denial has won a major battle in the United States, and the United States thus will go unrepresented as the rest of the world deals with reality. NBC News, NBC News, Jul 12, 2025.
• Why the federal government is making climate data disappear Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure. Grist, Kate Yoder, Jul 14, 2025.
• NASA Pulls Back From Promise to Host Major Climate Change Reports, Citing Legal Loophole Earlier this month, the agency said it would work to re-host information from a federal website that went dark. Now it says it will no longer do so. Inside Climate News, Finya Swai, Jul 15, 2025.
• NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports An agency spokeswoman had initially stated that NASA would retain earlier assessments online for continuity but instead the information will be hidden from public view. NYT, Rebecca Dzombak, Jul 15, 2025.
• He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil. A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change. HEATED, Emily Atkin, Jul 17, 2025.
• `Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels`: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis? The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian. The Guardian, Fiona Harvey, Jul 18, 2025.

Climate Science and Research (6 articles)

• Texas floods not caused by cloud seeding or dam release, but likely worsened by climate change Science Feedback, Editor Darrik Burns, July 11, 2025.
• Ocean circulation going South? Some intriguing new measurements of salinity in the oceans around Antarctica have set off reams of sensationalist speculations. Maybe some context is helpful… RealClimate, Gavin Schmidt, Jul 13, 2025.
• NO! The Antarctic Overturning Circulation is NOT REVERSING! The news is BAD enough without that! Just have a Think! on Youtube, Dave Borlace, July 13, 2025.
• ProPublica climate reporter calls Texas floods an 'early warning' of future chaos Abrahm Lustgarten says the undermining of science, and cuts to FEMA and NOAA, at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common, should be "extraordinarily concerning" to us. NPR Topics: Climate, Tonya Mosley, Jul 16, 2025.
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #29 2025 Skeptical Science's weekly distillation of freshly published climate research by academics, goverments and NGOS. Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Jul 17, 2025.
• Frozen for 12,000 years, this Alpine ice core captures the rise of civilization An ice core records climate and much else for the past 12,000 years, showing how nature and now increasingly humans have changed Earth's environment. ScienceDaily, Desert Research Institute, Jul 17, 2025.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (5 articles)

• Have renewables decreased electricity prices? While there are differing views on continued tax credits for more mature renewable energy technologies, renewables remain one of the most cost effective decarbonization options available today. The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Jul 15, 2025.
• Airlines risk legal challenges by advertising jet fuel as "sustainable", NGO warns Amid suspected fraud in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a new report says the airline industry should stop calling all alternatives to kerosene “sustainable” Climate Home News, Matteo Civillini, Jul 16, 2025.
• Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think A conversation about the status of leveled solar electrical generation, with Kostantsa Rangelova and Dave Jones of Ember. Volts, David Roberts, Jul 16, 2025.
• Tuvalu residents prepare for world`s first planned migration of an entire nation - and climate change is to blame A first-of-its-kind lottery for residents of Tuvalu who want to move to Australia due to climate change threats closes, with more than 5,000 applications received. Live Science, Sascha Pare, Jul 18, 2025.
• We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course? A fast explainer of where we stand against our 1.5 C climate target, what it means if we hit or miss. Live Science, Sascha Pare, Jul 19, 2025.

Climate Change Impacts (4 articles)

• https://youtu.be/NH8_EDxl9Ko?t=415 ‘Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier MSNBC, MSNBC , June 11, 2025.
• It`s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe`s Summers In peak vacation season, many of the continent’s most desirable getaways are becoming places to get away from. NYT, Jason Horowitz, Jul 14, 2025.
• The science behind Texas` catastrophic floods More than 100 people died in the flash floods. The disaster has the fingerprints of climate change all over it. Yale Climate Connections, Matt Simon, Jul 14, 2025.
• We are sinking': Torres Strait Islanders vow not to give up climate fight A judge regrets being unable to find for litigants whose homeland is vanishing beneath the ocean due to climate change. ABC News, Kirstie Wellauer and Stephanie Boltje, Jul 16, 2025.

Miscellaneous (2 articles)

• 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 6, 2025 thru Sat, July 12, 2025. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Jul 13, 2025.
• I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon "It’s bad (real bad) but it’s NOT over" as First Dog on the Moon explains in this cartoon The Guardian, First Dog on the Moon, Jul 16, 2025.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (2 articles)

• EDMO Training Series on Climate Disinformation - Module 2: Responding to climate disinformation Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook share information and answer questions about how to respond to climate disinformation. Youtube, EDMO, July 14, 2025.
• Fact brief - Did CO2 contribute to early 20th century warming? Yes - Warming from 1920 to 1940 was influenced by both natural dynamics or “forcings” as well as human-caused greenhouse gas emissions such as CO2. Skeptical Science, Sue Bin Park, Jul 15, 2025.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 article)

• Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor Andrea Jenkyns despite third heatwave of summer Comments came as the East and West Midlands became the latest areas of England to fall into drought as the country struggles with the driest start to the year since 1976. The Standard News, Nicholas Cecil, Jul 18, 2025.

Climate Education and Communication (1 article)

• How do we know Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas? Planetary Boundaries Science on Youtube, Bruce Phillips, July 16, 2025.

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