Posted on 29 October 2016 by John Hartz

Sun Oct 23, 2016

• India’s solar power set to outshine coal by Henner Weithoener, Climate News Network, Oct 21, 2016
• Climate change is shifting areas of skin disease concern by Kathryn Doyle, Reuters, Oct 21, 2016
• Are wind farms messing up the electricity market? by Gennadi Kazakevitch, The Conversation AU, Oct 20, 2016
• “Climate Change Did It!” Is a Convenient Excuse by Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash, Slate, Oct 21, 2016
• Climate Silence Goes Way Beyond Debate Moderators by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, Bew York Times, Oct 20, 2016
• Renewables forecast contradicts government claim on controlling costs by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Oct 19, 2016
• Catching Waves: It’s Time for Australia to Embrace Ocean Wave Renewable Energy, The Inertia, Oct 22, 2016
• Shifting tropical cyclones increases threat to sinking Mekong delta by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Oct 19, 2016
• Amy Goodman showed us the perils of standing up to the fossil fuel industry, Op-ed by Mary Boeve, Guardian, Oct 18, 2016
• Climate change could recreate horror drought by Jamie Morton, New Zealand Herald, Oct 21, 2016
• New Climate-Friendlier Coolant Has a Catch: It’s Flammable by Danny Hakim, New York Times, Oct 22, 2016
• More Than 80 Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Arrested, Some Pepper Sprayed by Phil McCausland, NBC News, Oct 22, 2016

Mon Oct 24, 2016

• The new “Inconvenient Truth”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s new documentary wants to challenge climate change skeptics by Eileen G'Sell, Salon, Oct 22, 2016
• Learning from Past Mistakes: Rebuilding Haiti After Hurricane Matthew by Tharanga Yakupitiyage, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 23, 2016
• Spain aiming for 100 per cent renewable energy, company director says by Lisa Millar, ABC News, Oct 24, 2016
• Governments agree U.N. study of tough climate limit, despite doubts by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Oct 20, 2016
• Katharine Hayhoe talks softly to Christians on climate change. Is there a better way? by Dennis Gruending, rabble.ca, Oct 23, 2016
• Living in China’s Expanding Deserts by Josh Haner, Edward Wong, Derek Watkins & Jeremy White, New York Times, Oct 24, 2016
• There's an effort to write tiny homes into the International Residential Code afoot by Kimberely Mok, Treehugger, Oct 21, 2016
• The atmosphere is being radicalized' by climate change by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus -the 97%, Guardian, Oct 24, 2016
• Changing Climate Threatens World’s Smallholder Farmers by Lyndal Rowlands, Inter Press Service (IPS). Oct 19, 2016
• After El Niño, what weird weather could La Niña bring? by Kate Ravilious, Guardian, Oct 23, 2016
• Opinion: How Gov. Scott quietly stole Florida's future, Op-ed by Debbie Harrison Rumberger, The Daily Climate, Oct 24, 2016
• A Year of Record Heat by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Oct 24, 2016

Tue Oct 25, 2016

• Climate change is burning up Australia: are we losing the battle? by Amy Spurling, Engineering & Technology (E&I), Oct 13, 2016
• 'Milestone': Global greenhouse gas levels accelerate past key marker by Peter Hannam, The Age, Oct 24. 2016
• Analysis: The impact of La Niña on UK wind power by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Oct 21, 2016
• Climate Change May Trigger Next Financial Crisis, Fisher Says by Emily Cadman, Bloomberg News, Oct 24, 2016
• How Far Will North Dakota Go to Get This Pipeline? by Mark Trahant, yes!, Oct 23, 2016
• GOP Senator On Climate Change: ‘Mankind Has Actually Flourished In Warmer Temperatures’ by Marina Fang, Huffington Post, Oct 24, 2016
• WikiLeaks reveals that Clinton considered a carbon tax — but her campaign missed something by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 24, 2016
• On the ballot: two clashing visions of how America will powers its cars, homes by Valerie Volcovici & Devika Krishna Kumar, Reuters, Oct 25, 2016
• After 3 Years Of Drought, A Starving Madagascar Teeters On The Brink Of ‘Catastrophe’ by Dominique Mosbergen, The Wold Post, Oct 24, 2016
• Shipping Industry Mulls Modest Steps to Slow Warming by John Upton, Climate Central, Oct 24, 2016
• Pope Francis's edict on climate change has fallen on closed ears, study finds by Nicola Davis, Guardian, Oct 24, 2016
• Northern Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching damage worse, surveys suggest by Adam Morton, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 25, 2016

Wed Oct 26, 2016

• Predicting Climate Impacts on Ecosystems Will Require Scientists to Widen the Lens by Kevin Dennehy, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Oct 24, 2016
• Globally, Sprawl Is Getting Worse by Tanvi Misra, City Lab, Oct 24, 2016
• How Mars and WRI Developed Science-based Sustainability Targets for Climate, Land, Water by Samantha Putt del Pino, World Resources Institute (WRI), Oct 19, 2016
• Studies offer new glimpse of melting under Antarctic glaciers by Carol Rasmussen, NASA's Global Climate Change, Oct 24, 2016
• White House weighing whether greenhouse gas deal needs Senate approval by Roberta Rampton, Reuters, Oct 25, 2016
• Gullah leader heads to Morocco for U.N. conference on climate change by Stephen Fastenau, Beaufort Gazette, Oct 25, 2016
• Minnesota Dedicates Largest Solar Farm In Midwest, Shutters Two Coal Plants by Steve Hanley, Clean Technica, Oct 26, 2016
• Testing the climate-drought-conflict connection by Roheeni Saxena, Ars Technica, Oct 24, 2016
• Native American Leaders Decry Increasingly Harsh Treatment of Dakota Access Protesters by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Oct 26, 2016
• Donald Trump has close financial ties to Dakota Access pipeline company by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Oct 26, 2016
• Analysis: Aviation to consume half of UK’s 1.5C carbon budget by 2050 by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Oct 24, 2016
• Governments and Social Movements Disagree on Future of Cities by Emilio Godoy, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 21, 2016

Thu Oct 27, 2016

• Red, Race and Blue, Analysis by Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connection, Oct 26, 2016
• Species may be listed as threatened based on climate change projections, court says by Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Oct 24, 2016
• In a loss for ExxonMobil, NY Supreme Court orders oil giant to produce climate documents by Steven Mufson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 24, 2016
• A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change by Akshat Rathi, Quartz, Oct 24, 2016
• Youth Are Pushing Back Against Fossil Fuel Influence by Cameron Fenton, Huffington Post Canada, Oct 25, 2016
• Before the Flood: A Must-See Film By Leonardo DiCaprio Explores Climate Change Risks and Solutions by Brendan DeMelle, DeSmog, Oct 26, 2016
• Warming Triggers Early Algae Blooms, Potential Ripple Effects to Come by Nicholas Kunetz, InsideClimate News, Oct 27, 2016
• World Medical Association: We Know the Health Risks of Fossil Fuels. Divest. by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Oct 26, 2016
• BlackRock calls for higher carbon price to tackle climate change by Attracta Mooney, Financial Times, Oct 27, 2016
• Magical Thinking Won’t Stop Climate Change, Op-ed by Mark Buchanan, Bloomberg News, Oct 26, 2016
• Melting Ice Raised Sea Levels More Than Previously Thought, Study Says by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 27, 2016

Fri Oct 28, 2016

• Why the ‘major-hurricane drought’ is the most overblown statistic in meteorology by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 24, 2016
• Professor Talks Intersection of Climate Change, Faith by Sydney Koehler, The Heights (Boston College), Oct 27, 2016
• Trust Issues in the Climate Change Debate (And How Culture Can Help) by Samuel Cheng, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Oct 27, 2016
• Scientists report ‘devastating’ coral death at Great Barrier Reef by Chris Mooney, Energy & environment, Washington Post, Oct 26, 2016
• Climate change rate to turn southern Spain to desert by 2100, report warns by Adam Vaughn, Guardian, Oct 27, 2016
• Arctic sea ice is at a record low and could, in spurts, disappear within our lifetimes by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 27, 2016
• The pope tried to convince skeptical US Catholics that climate change is real. Here’s why he failed. by David Roberts, Vox, Oct 28, 2016
• Clear Evidence Emerges of Outrageous Militarized Police Collaboration With Oil Companies at Standing Rock Against Protectors by Sarah Lazare, AlterNet, Oct 27, 2016
• The fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained by Brad Plumer, Vox, Oct 28, 2016
• See How Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers by Maria-José Viñas, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Oct 28, 2016
• The Climate Challenge Trio by Nigel Purvis and Nick Mabey, US News & World Report, Oct 28, 2016
• Amitav Ghosh: where is the fiction about climate change?, Guardian, OCt 28, 2016

Sat Oct 29, 2016

• Scientist Goes It Alone on Climate Change to Save His State by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Oct 28, 2016
• Will US energy policy push fossil fuels or renewable energy? Six essential reads by Martin LaMonica, The Conversation US, Oct 26, 2016
• Funding Lags to Combat Land Degradation by Justus Wanzala, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 26, 2016
• Analysis: How have the IEA’s renewable forecasts changed? by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Oct 26, 2016
• How a president Trump could scuttle US role in climate accord by Zach Coleman, Christian Science Monitor, Oct 27, 2016
• Global Weirding - Episode 2: Just how long have we known about climate change anyways? by Becky Ivy, KTTZ-TV Texas Tech Public Media, Oct 12, 2016
• Google Earth images shed light on where solar rooftops make sense by Sebastien Malo, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 26, 2016
• Guest post: Are trade agreements good or bad for the climate? by Susanne Dröge, Carbon Brief, Oct 28, 2016
• 10 Years on, Climate Economists Reflect on Stern Review by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Oct 28, 2016
• Warming of 2C will push Mediterranean habitats into ‘unprecedented situation’ by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Oct 27, 2016
• Shipping Industry Postpones Climate Plan Until 2023 by John Upton, Climate Central, Oct 28, 2016
• Sandy's Lessons Lost: Jersey Shore Rebuilds in Sea's Inevitable Path by Leslie Kaufman, InsideClimate News, Oct 26, 2016