2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #10
Posted on 5 March 2016 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Sun Feb 28
- In Exxon's Latest Annual Report, It's Business as Usual on Climate Change by David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News, Feb 26, 2016
- The US Is Dumping an Insane Amount of Methane Into the Air by Tim McDonnell, Environment, Mother Jones, Feb 16, 2016
- NASA sees a different kind of El Nino by Kate Ramsayer, Phys.org, Feb 25, 2016
- The many signs of climate change in the far north by Ned Rozell, Alaska Science Forum, newsminer.com, Feb 28, 2016
- EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Feb 28, 2016
- Arctic warming: Why record-breaking melting is just the beginning by Geoffrey lean , Independent, Feb 27, 2016
- Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts say by Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star, Feb 28, 2016
- Why don't we treat climate change with the rigor we give to terror attacks? Op-ed by Ruth Greenspan Bell, Guardian, Feb 15, 2016
Mon Feb 29
- Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris by John Church, Alistair Hobday, Andrew Lenton & Steve Rintoul, The Conversation AU, Feb 29, 2016
- 7 smarter ways to talk about climate change by Amelia Urry, Grist, Feb 8, 2016
- Our love-hate relationship with global warming by Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star, Feb 28, 2016
- Planet on the Ballot, Op-ed by Pual Krugman, New York Times, Feb 29, 2016
- Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscars speech was about climate change, which could be worse than we thought by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 29, 2016
- Global warming doubts spur push to block science standards by Jonathan Mattise, AP/Concord Monitor, Feb 27, 2016
- Lord Lawson thinktank's report ignores everything we know about climate science by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
- How Leonardo DiCaprio became one of the world's top climate change champions by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
Tue Mar 1
- Will Victoria's desalination plant need to get bigger? by Jason Dowling, The Age, Feb 28, 2016
- Will Climate Change Boost Mosquito-Borne Disease? by Kieran Mulvaney, Discovery News, Feb 29, 2016
- Scientists Protest Cuts and Commercialization at Australian Climate Center by Michelle Innes, New York Times, Feb 27, 2016
- The Economist Takes a Strange Turn on Science by Tali Trigg, Plugged In, Scientific American, Feb 26, 2016
- Are climate-change adaptations tied to protecting property or people? Study follows the money by Amina Kahn, Los Angeles Times, Feb 29, 2016
- Warren Buffett Delivers Cold-Blooded View of Global Warming to Shareholders by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Feb 29, 2016
- “The Old Normal Is Gone”: February Shatters Global Temperature Records by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, March 1, 2016
- The Crucial Point Warren Buffett Does Not Understand About Climate Risk by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Mar 1, 2016
Wed Mar 2
- Trudeau, Canadian provinces set for tough climate change talks by David Ljunggren, Reuters, Feb 29, 2016
- Canada's Climate Confab: Expect Plenty of Hot Air and Hypocrisy by Bill Tieleman, TheTyee.ca. Mar 1, 2016
- Does a Carbon Tax Work? Ask British Columbia by Eduardo Porter, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Mar 1, 2016
- Flood Damage Costs Will Rise Faster Than Sea Levels, Study Says by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Mar 1, 2016
- Across Canada and World, Climate Movement Prepares for Leap into 2016 by Deidre Fulton, Common Dreams, Feb 28, 2016
- Climate scientists worry about the costs of sea level rise by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Mar 2, 2016
- Leo Wins Oscar But Can He Win The Public Over Climate Change? by Lisa Bailey, Ri Aus, Mar 2, 2016
- Here's What Super Tuesday Voters Think About Climate Change by Jeremy Schulman, Environment, Mother Jones, Mar 1, 2016
- Huge divide in spending on climate change adaptation across world’s megacities by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 29, 2016
Thu Mar 3
- Elizabeth May calls on Trudeau to keep oil sands crude in the ground by Mar 2 2016
- "Energy Apartheid" Could Develop Soon by Umair Irfan, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Mar 2, 2016
- Green Climate Fund needs more staff to meet targets - director by Megan Rowling & Alister Doyle, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mar 2, 2016
- Food scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050, study suggests by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 29, 2016
- Ted Cruz's favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
- How should we teach students about climate change? by John Cook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Mar 3, 2016
- Oil and gas industry has pumped millions into Republican campaigns by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, Mar 3, 2016
- Scientists just found a surprising factor that’s speeding up Greenland’s melt by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Mar 3, 2016
- Is Worry Worthwhile in Confronting Climate Change? by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, Mar 3, 2016
Fri Mar 4
- World's biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
- Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years, AFP, Arab News, Mar 2, 2016
- Drought in eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years by Ellen Gray, Global Climate Change, NASA, March 1, 2016
- Trudeau, Obama set to endorse continental strategy on climate change by Robert Fife, The Globe & Mail, Mar 1, 2016
- Why we need to stop fake claims that global warming paused by Michael Mann, New Scientist, Mar 3, 2016
- Why is 2016 smashing heat records? by Karl Mathiesen, Guardian, Mar 4, 2016
- Our Hemisphere’s Temperature Just Reached a Terrifying Milestone by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, Mar 3, 2016
- Rising Seas Pull Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Building Boomtown, Toward a Bust by Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News, Mar 3, 2016
Sat Mar 5
- Canada PM, provinces set outlines of carbon pricing deal by Julie Gordon, Reuters, Mar 3, 2016
- California Gas Leak Threatens Jerry Brown’s Image as a Climate Change Hero by Ian Lovett & Michael Wines, New York Times, Mar 4, 2016
- When it comes to a shift to low-carbon energy, key players need a history lesson by Andrew Simms, Energy, Guardian, Mar 4, 2016
- Florida mayors press presidential debate moderators for climate airtime by Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Mar 4, 2016
- The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone by Bill McKibben, Boston Globe, Mar 5, 2016
- Oregon becomes first state to pass law to completely eliminate coal-fired power by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Mar 3, 2016
- The burning issue in climate change by Sylvia Thompson, Irish Times, Mar 5, 2016
- Vancouver, Copenhagen, Helsinki mayors brainstorm on building greener cities by Elizabeth McSheffrey, National Observer, Mar 4, 2016
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