2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 23, 2025 thru Sat, November 29, 2025.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
International Climate Conferences and Agreements (8 articles)
- Bad COP Personal Blog, Michael E. Mann, Nov. 22, 2025.
- COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets have been launched at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Nov 23, 2025.
- UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief. The Guardian, Damian Carrington, Oliver Milman, Jonathan Watts and Damien Gayle, Nov 23, 2025.
- The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left | Editorial Editorial: A fragile Cop30 consensus is a win. But only a real bargain between rich and poor nations can weather the climate shocks that are coming The Guardian, Editorial, Nov 24, 2025.
- I didn't wanna make a COP30 video Dr Gilbz on Youtube, Ella Gilbert, Nov 24, 2025.
- Here are 3 big ideas to combat climate change, with or without COP As the U.N.’s COP30 meeting falls short, groups find ways to fight climate change on their own Science News, Carolyn Gramling, Nov 26, 2025.
- World off track on climate action amid fossil fuel crisis: Expert The United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement recently that pledged more funding for countries to adapt to the wrath of extreme weather Latest News, Press Trust of India, Nov 27, 2025.
- Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents A confused – and, at times, contradictory – story has emerged about precisely which countries and negotiating blocs were opposed to a much-discussed “roadmap” deal at COP30 on “transitioning away from fossil fuels”. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Team, Nov 28, 2025.
Climate Change Impacts (7 articles)
- Scorching Saturdays: The rising heat threat inside football stadiums Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents at college football stadiums in the South could be a warning sign for universities across the country. Grist, Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News, Nov 24, 2025.
- Climate change could expand habitats for malaria mosquitoes, researchers warn Phys.org, University of Copenhagen, Nov 26, 2025.
- Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse" New Scientist - Home, Michael LePage, Nov 27, 2025.
- Scientists warn half the world`s beaches could disappear Rising seas and human pressures are rapidly shrinking the world’s beaches and destabilizing the ecosystems that depend on them. Science Daily, undação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Nov 27, 2025.
- Africa`s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown The Guardian, Jonathan Watts, Nov 28, 2025.
- Revealed: Europe`s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications The Guardian, Rachel Salvidge, Nov 29, 2025.
- `We had to swim to safety. I didn`t think we would make it out alive`: the people fleeing climate breakdown - in pictures Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina Nayeri The Guardian, Dina Niyeri with Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer , Nov 29, 2025.
Climate Science and Research (4 articles)
- Sea level doesn`t rise at the same rate everywhere - we mapped where Antarctica`s ice melt would have the biggest impact The Conversation, Shaina Sadai and Ambarish Karmalkar, Nov 25, 2025.
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #48 2025 A compilation of 156 articles in 57 journals by 1028 contributing authors Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Nov 27, 2025.
- A climate scientist reflects on 30 years fighting the ‘forces of unreason’ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ben Santer, Nov 28, 2025.
- Why scientists monitor carbon dioxide levels at a Hawaiian volcano Over nearly 70 years, they’ve documented atmospheric CO2 levels rising at Mauna Loa. Yale Climate Connections, YCC Team, Nov 28, 2025.
Climate Education and Communication (3 articles)
- How stories of personal experience cut through climate fatigue in ways that global negotiations can't The Conversation, Gulnaz Anjum and Mudassar Aziz, Nov 25, 2025.
- How we created a climate change museum to inspire hope among eco-distressed students The Conversation, William Finnegan, Anya Gleizer, Tina Fawcett, Nov 25, 2025.
- Public trust in science eroded by UN climate change language, study suggests Phys.org, University of Essex, Nov 26, 2025.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (2 articles)
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (1 article)
Climate Law and Justice (1 article)
Climate Policy and Politics (1 article)
Miscellaneous (1 article)
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Posted by BaerbelW on Sunday, 30 November, 2025
