Posted on 21 January 2017 by John Hartz

Sun Jan 15, 2017

• Are the billionaire American Koch brothers playing climate politics in Alberta? by Elizabeth McSheffry, Race Against Climate Change, National Observer, Jan 13, 2017
• Wyoming Bill Would All But Outlaw Clean Energy by Preventing Utilities From Using It by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Jan 13, 2017
• Guest post: Coal price surge will not stop China’s drive to reduce emissions by Wu Lixin, Carbon Brief, Jan 11, 2017
• Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators by Eric Lipton & Coral Davenport, New York Times, Jan 14, 2017
• Davos Elite Focus on Climate Change, Ignoring Trump’s Skepticism by Javier Blas & Jeff Shankleman, Bloomberg News, Jan 14. 2017
• U.S. EPA locks in 2025 fuel efficiency rules by David Shepardson, Reuters, Jan 13,  2017
• Climate change: 90% of rural Australians say their lives are already affected by Calla Wahlquist, Guardian, Jan 15, 2017
• Leading scientists urge May to pressure Trump over climate change by Ian Sample, Guardian, Jan 15, 2017

Mon Jan 16, 2017

• Beginning of the End of CA Drought, But What’s Next? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 13, 2017
• Businesses and investors renew plea to Trump: don't ignore climate change by Carol J Clouse, Guardian, Jan 10, 2017
• Prediction of Climate Change Impacts Not as "Limited" as Tillerson Suggests by Vanessa Schipani, SciCheck/Scientific American, Jan 13, 2017
• White House Urges Research on Geoengineering to Combat Global Warming by Henry Fountain, Science, New York Times, Jan 10, 2017
• 2016 Global Temperature Sets New Distraction Record by Mark Boslough, Huffington Post US, Jan 16, 2017
• Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept Any ‘Social Cost of Carbon’? by Andrew Revkin, ProPublica, Jan 11, 2017
• New studies show Rex Tillerson is wrong about climate risks by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 16, 2016
• Why a Canadian teen joined American youth in suing U.S. over climate change by Kim Brunhuber, CBC News, Jan 16, 2017

Tue Jan 17, 2017

• We need a Ladybird book of climate change deniers by Patrick Barkham, Guardian, Jan 16, 2017
• Ice crack to put UK Antarctic base in shut-down by Jonathan Amos, Science & Environment, BBC News, Jan 16, 2017
• Bipartisan EPA Alumni Urge Senate to Reject Pruitt's "Troubling" Nomination by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Jan 16, 2017
• The NASA data conspiracy theory and the cold sun by Stefan Rahmstorf, Real Climate, Jan 16, 2017
• At Scott Pruitt’s Confirmation Hearing, Science Will Be on Trial by Abby Rabinowitz, New Republic, Jan 16, 2017
• Parts of United States are heating faster than globe as a whole by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 17, 2016
• Days before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 17, 2017
• Video: NASA’s Dr Gavin Schmidt on 2016 as the hottest year on record by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Jan 16, 2017

Wed Jan 18, 2017

• Joint Statements on Climate Change from National Academies of Science Around the World by Peter Gleick, Significant Figures by Peter Gleick, ScienceBlogs, Jan 7, 2017
• Australia should invest in coal power to red5uce emissions, minister says by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Jan 16, 2017
• POLL-Unlike Trump, Americans want strong environmental regulator -Reuters/Ipsos by Chris Kahn, Reuters, Jan 17, 2017
• A Swarm of 30 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Socked the Planet in 2016 by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, Jan 17, 2017
• 2016 Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 18, 2017
• How 2016 Became Earth’s Hottest Year on Record by Jugal K Patel, New York Times, Jan 18, 2017
• How Far Can Technology Go To Stave Off Climate Change? by David Biello, Yale Environment 360, Jan 18, 2017
• I've Served Under Many Republican EPA Administrators. Here's Why Scott Pruitt Is Wrong For This Job. by Diana Regas, Forbes, Jan 17, 2017

Thu Jan 19, 2017

• Dramatic decrease in ‘mild’ weather for tropical countries by 2100 by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Jan 18, 2017
• The Temperature Spiral, Now With 2016’s Record Heat by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 18, 2017
• Scientists react to Earth’s warmest year: ‘We are heading into a new unknown’ by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Jan 18, 2017
• Melbourne's trams to be solar powered by Benjamin Preiss, The Age, Jan 19, 2017
• A cat in hell’s chance’ – why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2C by Andrew Simms, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
• Record Number of Americans “Very Worried” About Global Warming, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, Jan 18, 2017
• On global warming, Trump nominees try having it both ways by Zack Colman & Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor, Jan 19, 2017
• A New Special Relationship for America and Britain Emerges with Climate Science Deniers Linked to Trump and Brexit by Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, Jan 16, 2017

Fri Jan 20, 2017

• Global warming could cause sea levels to rise higher than the height of a three-storey building, study suggests by Ian Johnston, The Independent, Jan 19, 2017
• Climate change will affect all of us. So why the lack of urgency? by Polly Toynbee, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
• Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump by Zoë Schlanger, Wired, Jan 19, 2017
• All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website by Jason Koebler, Motherboard, Jan 20, 2017
• What to Expect—and Ways to Respond—as the Trump Administration Assumes Power by Mark Halpern, Union of Concerned Scientists, Jan 19, 2017
• There's a serious danger to the soft climate denial pedaled by Trump's cabinet picks, Analysis by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Jan 19, 2017
• Trump Day 1: Global Warming's Fate by Annie Sneed, Scientific American, Jan 20, 2017

Sat Jan 21, 2017

• Al Gore's Inconvenient Sequel to open Sundance in acutely political year by Andrew Pulver, Guardian, Jan 18, 2017
• How unusual is 2016's record-temperature three-peat, and will the hot streak continue in 2017? by Jessica Blunden, NOAA's Climate.gov, Jan 19, 2017
• Miami-Dade’s GOP mayor on sea-level rise: ‘It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. We live it every day by Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, Jan 18, 2017
• ‘The Last Frontiers of Wilderness’: Intact Forest Plummets Around the World by John C Cannon, Pacific Standard, Jan 19, 2017
• Two scientists' concerns over years of climate inaction by Daniel Grossman & Bud Ward, Yale Climate Communications, Jan 21, 2017
• High temperatures to hit staple crops in the US this century, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Jan 19, 2017
• Warm Air Invades Arctic Again, Slowing Sea Ice Growth by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 19, 2017
• Bangladesh struggles to turn the tide on climate change as sea levels rise by Karen McVeigh, Guardian, Jan 20, 2017