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2015 SkS Weekly Digest #2
Posted on 11 January 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Not pHraud but pHoolishness, a guest post by Richard Telford attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Another guest post, Climate Deniers Employ Predatory Tactics in Fight Against Facts: Scientist by Deirdre Fulton attracted the second highest number of comments.
Be sure to check out our new feature, Media Matters Posts about Environment & Science
El Niño Watch
Japan's weather bureau said on Friday the El Nino weather pattern, often linked to both heavy rainfall and drought, is continuing but added that the phenomena could end over spring.
The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast said the El Nino, which emerged during last summer for the first time in five years, was already starting to ease.
El Nino likely to head to an end over spring: Japan weather bureau, Reuters, Jan 9, 2015
Toon of the Week
Quote of the Week
The letter calls on Stanford to pull out of all fossil fuel investments, not just coal. “The urgency and magnitude of climate change call not for partial solutions, however admirable; they demand the more profound and thorough commitment embodied in divestment from all fossil-fuel companies,” the letter says.
“The alternative – for Stanford to remain invested in oil and gas companies – presents us with a paradox: if a university seeks to educate extraordinary youth so they may achieve the brightest possible future, what does it mean for that university simultaneously to invest in the destruction of that future? Given that the university has signalled its awareness of the dangers posed by fossil fuels, what are the implications of Stanford’s making only a partial confrontation with this danger?”
Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments by Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2015
SkS in the News
In his Wonkblog post, 2014 may set a new temperature record. So can we please stop claiming global warming has “stopped”?, Chris Mooney inserted the SkS Escalator graphic and introduced it with the following:
The weakness of the "pause" argument is perfectly captured in this GIF from the website Skeptical Science, showing that you can still have global warming even if you have shorter periods during which temperatures don't rise much:
SkS Spotlights
Coming Soon on SkS
- Corrosive Seawater, Not Low pH, Implicated As Cause of Oyster Deaths (Rob Painting)
- Just when did humans first start affecting the climate (howardlee)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #3A (John Hartz)
- Guest Post (John Abraham)
- Kevin Cowtan's AGU Fall Meeting 2014 presentation (Kevin C)
- 2014 was a record, remarkably hot year – in animated graphics (Dana)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #3B (John Hartz)
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #3 (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
SkS Week in Review
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #2B (John Hartz)
- Climate Deniers Employ Predatory Tactics in Fight Against Facts: Scientist (Deirdre Fulton)
- Economics supports immediate action on global warming (Dana)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #2A (John Hartz)
- Five bits of research that shaped climate science in 2014 (Roz Pidcock)
- Pope Francis plants a flag in the ground on climate change (John Abraham)
- Not pHraud but pHoolishness (Richard Telford)
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #1 (John Hartz)
Media Matters Posts about Environment & Science
- George Will Misreads History To Deny Climate Change by Kevin Kalhoefer, Jan 9, 2015
- WATCH: The Keystone XL Jobs Myth That Won't Die by Coleman Lowndes & Denise Robbins, Jan 8, 2015
- Chicago Tribune Lets CEO Push Business Interests Without Disclosure by Salvatore Colleluori, Jan 7, 2015
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