2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 20, 2025 thru Sat, July 26, 2025.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Policy and Politics (7 articles)
- This renowned climate scientist says this is the most difficult time for climate science he’s ever seen Benjamin Santer received enormous pushback when he authored one of the first reports on the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change. Today, he says, the reaction to climate research is far worse. FastCompany, Annabelle Choi, June 17, 2025.
- Flash Floods and Climate Policy As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters. The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Kolbert, July 12, 2025.
- How the Right Is Waging War on Climate-Conscious Investing The Atlantic Magazine, Steven Mufson and Tom Hamburger, July 18, 2025.
- In Trump`s "Big Beautiful" Bill, Ugly Contradictions & Giveaways to Oil & Gas Industry The $4 trillion spending package increases federal subsidies for carbon capture – as long as the captured gas is pumped underground with the purpose of forcing out more oil and gas to burn. Oil & Gas Watch, Tom Pelton, Jul 19, 2025.
- `A disaster for all of us`: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs Science The Guardian, Nina Lakhani, Jul 20, 2025.
- US EPA to withdraw foundation of greenhouse gas rules, sources say Legal, Reuters, by Valerie Volcovici, July 23, 2025.
- A Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Made Climate History, But Trump Wants It Gone CleanTechnica, Carolyn Fortuna, Jul 25, 2025.
Climate Change Impacts (5 articles)
- Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says CNN Business, Lianne Kolirin, July 21, 2025.
- A weird lack of Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones so far in 2025 It’s been one of the least active years on record for tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere. That could change soon. Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections , Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, July 21, 2025.
- The stranger in the mirror: how will a hotter earth change humanity? Climate, Cosmos Magazine, Richard Musgrove, July 22, 2025.
- Millions Swelter Under Relentless Heat Dome Smothering Eastern U.S. Lede: "High humidity and low overnight temperatures will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week" Scientific American, by Meghan Bartels, edited by Clara Moskowitz, July 23, 2025.
- Firefighters struggle to contain wildfires as heatwave sears Turkey and Cyprus Sustainability, Reuters, Ayhan Uyanik & Yiannis Kourtoglou, July 24, 2025.
Climate Education and Communication (4 articles)
- What Is A Heat Dome? Explaining The Deadly Weather Pattern Behind America's Most Dangerous Summer Days These expansive areas of sinking air can push temperatures up to 30 degrees above average during the summer while increasing the threat of heat illnesses. Weather Explainers, The Weather Channel, Jonathan Belles, July 21, 2025.
- ThesThese must-read story series explore our climate-changed worlde must-read story series explore our climate-changed world From first-person accounts to scientific explorations, these reads will help you deeply understand our changing climate. Yale Climate Connections, SueEllen Campbell, July 22, 2025.
- Journalism, Propaganda and Climate Change Can we flood the zone with truth? Science, Inside Climate News, David Sassoon, July 23, 2025.
- Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen on narratives of our era of strange, changing weather. The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, & Rivka Galchen, July 23, 2025.
Climate Law and Justice (3 articles)
- Does the World Court`s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways. While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate. NYT, Somini Sengupta, Jul 23, 2025.
- ICJ: What the world court`s landmark opinion means for climate change The highest court of the UN has issued a landmark “advisory opinion” stating that nations can be held legally accountable for their greenhouse-gas emissions. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Jul 25, 2025.
- A Single Paragraph`s Promise: The ICJ`s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Understated Question of Human Displacement Climate Law Blog, Lena Riemer, Jul 26, 2025.
Health Aspects of Climate Change (3 articles)
- My climate guilt is real – but the actual villains keep getting away with it "As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back." Commentary, Yale Climate Cnnections, Ana Flores, July 21, 2025.
- Climate change is creating `new vulnerabilities` for disease pandemics Climate change is creating “new vulnerabilities” for pandemics, according to new research. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Jul 23, 2025.
- Extreme heat is miserable and dangerous. It’s also making us age faster CNN Climate, Laura Paddison, Juy 25, 2025.
Climate Science and Research (2 articles)
- Study finds Southern Ocean’s surface is becoming saltier and losing sea ice, not experiencing an ‘ocean current reversal’ Science Feedback, Editor Derrik Burns, July 21, 2025.
- The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions, and why the data series is being ended. The Register, Rik Myslewski, July 22, 2025.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (2 articles)
International Climate Conferences and Agreements (1 article)
Miscellaneous (1 article)
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Posted by BaerbelW on Sunday, 27 July, 2025
