Posted on 22 August 2015 by John Hartz

Sun, Aug 16

• Alaska’s quest to power remote villages — and how it could spread clean energy worldwide by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 14, 2015
• Egypt Heat Wave Kills More As Global Warming Strikes, Inquistr, Aug 16, 2015
• Millions To Be Spent To Protect Sewage Plants From Effects Of Climate Change by Gregory B. Hladky, Hartford Courant, Aug 16, 2015

Mon, Aug 17

• Oyster farmers worried as climate change lowers ocean pH by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisico Chronicle, Aug 16, 2015
• Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', says Canadian author Naomi Klein by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Aug 16, 2015
• Fox News' inner struggle with climate misinformation by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus-the 97%, The Guardian, Aug 17, 2015
• Climate change has a moral dimension that can't be ignored, Op-ed by Rev. Matt Schultz, Alaska Dispatch NewsAug 16, 2015
• Myths of the Australian climate change debate by Adam Morton, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 16, 2015
• Bulk Energy Storage Would Increase Total U.S. Electricity System Emissions, Study Says by Robert Fares, Scientific American, Aug 17, 2015
• Global warming is reversing 1,800 years of natural ocean cooling, study finds by Steve Connor, The Independent, Aug 17, 2015
• Global warming to drive quadrupling of extreme weather trifecta, study finds by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2015
• Global Warming Is Here and Now: July 2015 Was the Hottest Month on Record by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Aug 17, 2015

Tue, Aug 18

• Global warming to drive quadrupling of extreme weather trifecta, study finds by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2015
• 1,000 Activists Join Together to Say No to Big Coal by Tierney Smith, TckTckTck/EcoWatch, Aug 17, 2015
• The Time for Feeling Powerless in the Face of Climate Chaos Is Over by May Boeve, 350.org/The Huffington Post, Aug 17, 2015
• Climate change set to fuel more "monster" El Niños, scientists warn by Roz Pidcock, The Carbon Brief, Aug 17, 2015
• Goni forecast to become super typhoon as it spins west toward Taiwan by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2015
• Islamic leaders issue bold call for rapid phase out of fossil fuels by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Aug 18, 2015
• No Agnostics in the Climate Foxhole by John Hewson, Project Syndicate/Policy Innovations, Aug 17, 2015
• Damned Lies, Minister Hunt and Climate Models by Clive Hamilton, The Conversation, Aug 17, 2015

Wed, Aug 19 

• Forget the hostile Congress – Obama can cut global climate deals on his own terms by Luke Kemp, The Conversation AU, Aug 19, 2015
• African states urged to bolster responses to climate change by Eugene Kwibuka, The New Times (Rawanda), Aug 18, 2015
• E.P.A. Announces New Rules to Cut Methane Emissions by Gardiner Harris and Coral Davenport, New York Times, Aug 18, 2015
• Arctic Drilling Approval Threatens Obama's Climate Legacy by Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News, Aug 18, 2015
• One of the world’s fastest melting glaciers may have just lost its biggest chunk of ice on record by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2015
• China’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions May Have Been Overstated by More Than 10% by Chris Buckley, New York Times, Aug 19, 2015
• The Islamic Climate Change Declaration Could Be More Effective Than Pope Francis's Encyclical by Emma Foehringer Merchant, New Republic, Aug 19, 2015

Thu, Aug 20 

• For Pluto 'Truthers,' the New Horizons Mission Is Only the Latest Lie by Max Kutner, Newsweek, Aug 19, 2015
• India offers technology to Pacific island countries to cope with climate change by PTI, The Economic Times, Aug 19, 2015
• The Weight of the World:Can Christiana Figueres persuade humanity to save itself? by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, Aug 24, 2015 Issue
• Scientists say global warming has made California’s drought 25 percent worse by Darryl Fears, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 20, 2015
• Scientists are still trying to figure out how fast West Antarctica could melt by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 20, 2015
• Climate stance of Australian politicians 'disturbing' – US Geological Survey chief by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Aug 19, 2015
• How to make people care about climate change? Tell it one story at a time  by Heather Smith, Grist, Aug 19, 2015

Fri, Aug 21

• Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science fiction to make sense of it by Claire L Evans via Creative Time Reports, The Guardian, Aug 20, 2015
• How climate change is spawning a new view of conservation  by Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor, Aug 20, 2015
• 10 years on from Hurricane Katrina: What have we learned? by Roz Pidcock, The Carbon Brief, Aug 19, 2015
• July Was Earth’s Hottest Month Ever Recorded by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Aug 20, 2015
• Victorian government to back new wind farms as part of renewables plan by Tom Arup, The Age (Australia), Aug 21, 2015
• #TalkAboutIt: Climate change sceptics versus the scientists by Clara Tran and staff, #TalkAboutIt, ABC, Aug 21, 2015
• Homes Make as Much Energy as They Use by Brittany Patterson and ClimateWire, Scientific American, Aug 21, 2015
• Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels by Bill McKibben, Common Dreams, Aug 21, 2015

Sat, Aug 22

• State of Emergency Declared as Wildfires Create 'Unprecedented Cataclysm' in Washington by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Aug 21, 2015

• Torrential rains, prolonged drought - climate change causing more extreme weather by Carla Bleiker, Deutsche Welle (DW), Aug 21, 2015

• Abbott's smoke and mirrors before Paris climate summit by Mike Seccombe, The Saturday Paper, Aug 22, 2015

• The little boy and his changing faces, Nature Climate Change Editorial, Nature Climate Change 5, 787 (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2790 Published online 17 August 2015
• Will REDD+ help save Indonesia’s forest, or create ‘carbon cowboys’ instead? by Simon Pollock, Mongabay, Aug 20, 2015
• Chile approves 260MW ‘baseload’ solar plant with storage by Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy, Aug 21, 2015
• Improving weather brings optimism to wildfire fight by by Joseph O’Sullivan & Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, Aug 22, 2015
• Climate change: Municipalities unprepared for 'weather whiplash,' warns meteorologist The Canadian Press, CBC News, Aug 22, 2015