Posted on 20 February 2016 by John Hartz

Sun Feb 14

• Who’s hitting the EU’s 2020 renewables target — and who’s holding it back? by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Feb 10, 2016
• The Supreme Court could block Obama’s climate plans — but it can’t stop clean energy by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 10, 2016
• Study: Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Feb 8, 2016
• Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal? by Robinson Meyer, The Atlanatic, Feb 12, 2016
• Climate risks could wreak havoc on financial markets, EU watchdog warns by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 12, 2016
• Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think, Op-ed by Derek J Koehler, Sunday Review, New York Times, Feb 12, 2016
• CO2 Emissions Are Causing Earth to ‘Hyperventilate’ by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 12, 2016
• What Scalia’s Death Means For Climate Change by John Upton, Climate Central, Feb 13, 2016

Mon Feb 15

• Why fighting anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers often backfires by Jon Cohen, Science, Feb 13, 2016
• Europe's climate change goals 'need profound lifestyle changes' by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 15, 2016
• Study: 'Major decline' in Antarctic penguin population by Natalie Muller, Deutsche Welle, Feb 14, 2016
• Have we reached the tipping point for investing in renewable energy? by Bruce Watson, The Guardian, Feb 13, 2016
• A Rockefeller explains: Why I lost faith in Exxon Mobil, and donated my shares, Op-ed by Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, Los Angeles Times, Feb 15, 2016
• Climate Quickies: Scientists (Briefly) Discuss Climate Change by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Feb 14, 2016
• Global temperatures leap higher in January, smashing records by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 16, 2016

Tue Feb 16

• Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, Feb 15, 2016 
• If You're Not Terrified by Climate Change, Just Consider the Great Barrier Reef by Lane Severson, Pacific Standard, Feb 15, 2016
• Why Two Degrees Is So Important—Fossil Fuel Companies Can No Longer Ignore the Need to Act, Guest Commentary by Katharine Hayhoe, Union of Concerned Scientist, Feb 12, 2016
• Green investors turn glare on car giants by Alex Pashley, Climate Home, Feb 16, 2016
• The decisions we make about climate change today will reverberate for millennia. No pressure. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Feb 15, 2016
• Next Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to Climate Change by Eduardo Porter, New York Times, Feb 16, 2016
• Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Op-ed by Bill McKibben, Yes Magazine!/Common Dreams, Feb 16, 2016
• Earth Kicks Off 2016 With the Most Abnormally Warm Month Ever Measured by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Feb 16, 2016

Wed Feb 17

• Surreal Spring: The Cognitive Dissonance of Our Climate Emergency by Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning, Feb 16, 2016
• Better water management could halve global food deficit - scientists by Astrid Zweynert, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Feb 16, 2016
• The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change by Bruce Melton, Truthout, Jan 16, 2016
• Study Ties U.S. to Spike in Global Methane Emissions by Bobby Magill, Common Dreams, Feb 16, 2016
• Donald Trump warned against scrapping Paris climate deal by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 16, 2016
• Scalia's Death Leaves Court in Ideological Limbo as Climate Decision Looms by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Feb 16, 2016
• Fossil-fuel industry gets $2,000 in 'subsidies' for each $1 in party donations by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 16, 2016

Thu Feb 18

• The best way to protect us from climate change? Save our ecosystems by Tara Martin & James Watson, The Conversation AU, Feb 12, 2016
• Rising extreme weather warns of ecosystem collapse: study by Alfredo Huete & Xuanlong Ma, The Conversation AU, Feb 18, 2016
• New Evidence Shows Global Climate Change Began Way Back in 1610 by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, Feb 17, 2016
• Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 17, 2016
• Global Warming Crushes Records. Again. by Tom Randall, Bloomberg Business News, Feb 17, 2016
• The key to halting climate change: admit we can't save everything, Op-ed by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, The Guardian, Feb 17, 2016
• Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 18, 2016
• Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong by Daniel Grosssman, Nautilus, Feb 18, 2016
• Scientists: Climate change is attracting more disease-carrying insects to the UK, but don’t panic by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 16, 2016

Fri Feb 19

• 17 Governors Agree to Pursue Clean Energy Goals by Debra Kahn, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Feb 17, 2016
• Big Oil could be hit with a wave of oil company bankruptcies by Katie Herzog, Grist, Feb 17, 2016
• Members of Congress call for investigation of Shell over climate change by Ivan Penn, Los Angeles Times, Feb 18, 2016
• Republicans' favorite climate chart has some serious problems by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 19, 2016
• Warming oceans are turning sea stars to goo and killing lobsters, scientists say by Darryl Fears, Washington Post, Feb 17, 2016
• Arctic Sea Ice Is in Record Low Territory (Again) by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 18, 2016
• Climate change has dropped off the political radar by Ed King, Climate Home, Feb 19, 2016
• Why even catastrophic events can’t change attitudes to climate by Tim Maughan, Culture Lab, New Scientist, Feb 18, 2016 

Sat Feb 20

• Ocean levels in the Philippines rising at 5 times the global average by Shalini Saxena, Ars Technica, Feb 19, 2016
• Mussel power: how ocean acidification is changing shells by Susan Fitzer, The Conversation AU, Feb 19, 2016
• Tropical Cyclone Winston grinds over Fiji by Joshua Berlinger & Brandon Miller, CNN, Feb 20, 2016
• Climate change will lead to deformed and virus-hit coral reefs by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 19, 2016
• Donald & Ted’s Excellent Climate Adventure by Peter Dykstra, The Daily Climate, Feb 20. 2016
• What Scalia’s death means for environment and climate by Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation - US, Feb 18, 2016
• Cyclone Winston, Strongest Southern Hemisphere Storm in History, Hits Fiji by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Feb 20, 2016
• Global wind power capacity tops nuclear energy for first time, The Japan Times, Feb 20, 2016