Posted on 6 February 2016 by John Hartz

Sun Jan 31

• Australia's First Powerwall Home Batteries Are Already Installed In Western Sydney by Campbell Simpson, Gizmodo AU, Jan 26, 2016
• The cheapest way to scale up wind and solar energy? High-tech power lines by Christopher Clack, The Conversation AU, Jan 27, 2016
• Here is the weather forecast for the next five years: even hotter by Robin McKie, The Guardian, Jan 30. 2016
• Europe's recent summers were the 'warmest in 2,000 years' by Matt McGrath, BBC News, Jan 29, 2016
• El Niño parches Asia Pacific, destroying crops and drying up water sources by Alisa Tang, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jan 26, 2016
• Changes to Victoria's bush will have to be accepted under global warming: scientists by Tom Arup, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 1, 2016
• Norwegian industry plans to up fossil fuel production despite Paris pledge by John Vidal, The Guardian, Jan 29, 2016
• Drought tests a changed Ethiopia by Aaron Maasho & Edmund Blair, Reuters, Jan 31, 2016

Mon Feb 1

• Years After 'ExxonSecrets,' Activist Applauds New Spotlight on Old Nemesis by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Jan 27, 2016
• Tell the truth, ExxonMobil: a low-carbon future is affordable – and necessary by Natasha Lamb & Dr Bob Litterman, The Guardian, Jan 31, 2016
• The climate-change refugee crisis is only just beginning by Peter Schwartzstein, Quartz, Jan 31, 2016
• El Niño Is Here, So Why Is California Still in Drought? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 27, 2016
• Who politicized the environment and climate change? by Brian C Black, The Conversation AU, Feb 1, 2016
• Fox News Republican debate moderators asked a climate question! by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 1, 2016
• Explainer: how surface and satellite temperature records compare by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 1, 2016
• Climate Change Denier Claims (Heh) That 2015Wasn’t (Ha) the Hottest Year on Record (HAHAHAHA!) by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Feb 1, 2016

Tue Feb 2

• Republicans reject climate change fears despite rebukes from scientists by Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, Feb 2, 2016
• South Florida Mayors Tell Rubio, Bush: ‘Climate Change Is Real’ by Gina-Marie Cheeseman, Triple Pundit, Jan 29, 2016
• Norway Says Arctic Gas Expansion Depends on EU's Climate Plan by Mikael Holter, Bloomberg News, Feb 1, 2016
• Climate change in charts: from record global temperatures to science denial by Graham Readfearn, Planet OZ, The Guradian, Feb 1. 2016
• Five Facts That Reveal a Warming Planet (Op-Ed) by Jeremy Deaton, livescience, Feb 1, 2016
• China Blows Past the U.S. in Wind Power by Daniel Cusick, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Feb 2, 2016
• Ted Cruz, you might want to listen to evangelicals on climate change, Commentary by Aaron Daniel Taylor, Religion News Service (RNS), Feb 2, 2016
• Polish districts call for coal-free development by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Feb 2, 2016
• Why the U.S. East Coast could be a major ‘hotspot’ for rising seas by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 1, 2016

Wed Feb 3

• El Niño warmth continued during January 2016 by Caitlyn Kennedy, Climate.gov, Feb 2, 2016
• Understanding the 2015–16 El Niño and its impact on phytoplankton by Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Geo Space, AGU, Feb 2, 2016
• Why I Think About Climate Change Differently as a Mom by Molly Rauch, Parents, Feb 2, 2016
• We’re drowning in cheap oil – yet still taxpayers prop up this toxic industry, Op-ed by George Monbiot, The Guardian, Feb 2, 2016
• Measuring ocean heating is key to tracking global warming by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 3, 2016
• Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean by Thomas Sumner, ScienceNews, Feb 1, 2016
• Four Graphics (and a Book) that Help Explain Climate Change by Adam Voiland, Earth Observatory, NASA, Jan 25, 2016
• Higher Temperatures May Doom Many Trees by Brittany Patterson, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Feb 3, 2016

Thu Feb 4

• Exxon Stiff-Arms a Request to Take Moral Responsibility for Climate Change by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Feb 3, 2016
• El Niño means glaciers in the Andes are melting at record rates by Kate Ravilious, New Scientist, Jan 25, 2016
• El Niño and Global Warming—What’s the Connection? by Renee Cho, State of the Planet, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Feb 2, 2016
• Australia’s emissions are climbing again, but it already has the policies to turn the tide by Gordon Weiss, The Conversation AU, Feb 4, 2016
• CSIRO cuts: from climate denial to climate outsourcing by Marcus Strom, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 4, 2016
• The Atlantic Ocean Is Acidifying at a Rapid Rate by Emily J. Gertz, TakePart, Feb 3, 2016
• Glaciologists anticipate massive ice shelf collapse by Meghan Murphy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Feb 3, 2016
• The hidden environmental factors behind the spread of Zika and other devastating diseases by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 3, 2016

Fri Feb 5

• The House Science Committee Thinks the Paris Climate Agreement Stinks by Nick Stockton, Wired, Feb 2, 2016
• Could a Legal Case Save Humanity From Climate Disaster? Exxon Could Face a Big Comeuppance by Reynard Loki, AlterNet, Feb 2, 2016
• Obama to Propose a $10-a-Barrel Fee on Oil by Coral Davenport, New York Times, Feb 4, 2016
• Naomi Klein: “There are no non-radical options left before us” by Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com/Salon, Feb 4, 2016
• Why climate change is really, really unfair by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 5, 2016
• What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China and Climate Change, Op-ed by Sonia Shah, Sunday Review, New York Times, Feb 5. 2016
• Senior CSIRO scientist derides chief executive's claim climate change is 'answered' by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 4, 2016
• How big oil spent $10m to defeat California climate change legislation by Anita Chabria, The Guardian, Feb 5, 2016

Sat Feb 6

• Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 4, 2016
• A Carbon Tax on Meat? by Niina Heikkinen, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Feb 4, 2016
• UK Forecasters: More Warming in Store Over Next 5 Years by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Feb 3, 2016
• Paradise Lost: How the Climate Catastrophe May Be Tied to a Fatal Flaw in Human Evolution by Helen Camakaris, The New Internationalist/Alternet, Feb 5, 2016
• US seafood species highly vulnerable to climate change, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 3, 2016
• Cleared rainforest bounces back faster than thought – study by Alex Pashley, Climate Home, Feb 4, 2016
• Hot, Dry Weather Could Cut Into California’s Snowpack by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 5, 2016
• 'Misleading, inaccurate and in breach of Paris': CSIRO scientist criticises cuts by Adam Morton, Peter Hannam & Marcus Strom, Brisbane Times, Feb 5, 2016
• Obama's Oil Tax: A Conversation Starter About Climate and Transportation, but a Non-Starter in Congress by John H Cushman Jr. InsideClimate News, Feb 5, 2016