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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #4
Posted on 28 January 2017 by John Hartz
A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.
Sun Jan 22, 2017
- Interactive: How much does El Niño affect global temperature? by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Jan 20, 2017
- What Did Confirmation Hearings Tell Us About Trump’s Priorities on Climate Change? by Andrew Light, World Resources Institute (WRI), Jan 20, 2017
- What happens if we ignore climate change? by Alistair Woodward, OUPblog, Oxford University Press, Jan 21, 2017
- As U.S. Cedes Leadership on Climate, Others Step Up at Davos by Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, Jan 21, 2017
- Wisconsin state agencies are deleting talk of human-caused climate change from their websites by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
- Climate change has big implications for farmers. Will Sonny Perdue get that? by Andee Erickson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
- Climate Scientists Have An Urgent Message For Donald Trump by Ed Mazza, Huffington Post, Jan 20, 2017
- Fearing White House Purge Of Climate Science, Scientists Frantically Copying Data by James Conca, Forbes, Jan 22, 2017
Mon Jan 23, 2017
- Trump’s regulatory freeze halts four Obama rules aimed at promoting greater energy efficiency by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
- Will President Obama’s clean energy legacy endure? by Mark Barteu, The Conversation US, Jan 19, 2017
- Fearing climate change databases may be threatened in Trump era, UCLA scientists work to protect them by Amina Kahn, Los Angeles Times, Jan 22, 2017
- Trump White House Distorts Wages Figure on First Day by John Upton, Climate Central, Jan 20, 2017
- We’re now breaking global temperature records once every three years by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 23, 2017
- With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight?, Opinion by Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360, Jan 23, 2017
- One of the last Obama-era climate reports had a troubling update about the rising seas by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 23, 2017
- Donald Trump is getting ready to hammer the EPA by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 23, 2017
Tue Jan 24, 2017
- Climate Regulations Under a Watchful Internet Eye by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Jan 23, 2017
- Flood disasters more than double across Europe in 35 years by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
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CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health by Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 23, 2017
- We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years by John Vidal, Guardian, Jan 23, 2017
- Trump gives new life to Dakota Access, Keystone XL oil pipelines by Steven Mufson & Juliet Eilperin, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
- Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts by Andrew Revkin & Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, Jan 23, 2017
- Scientists link toxic algal blooms along U.S. West Coast to warm waters in the Pacific by Tom Di Liberto, NOAA's Climate.gov, Jan 23, 2017
- Resurrection of Keystone and DAPL cements America's climate antagonism by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Jan 24, 2017
- Trump’s Climate Stance Threatens to Worsen China Relations by Joe Ryan, Bloomberg News, Jan 24, 2017
Wed Jan 25, 2017
- Trump tries to pave the way for development by accelerating environmental reviews by Darryl Fears, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
- Intact Forest Landscapes Matter for Climate Change. Here Are 3 Reasons Why. by Nancy Harris, Samantha Gibbes & Peter Potapov, World Resources Institute (WRI), Jan 24, 2017
- The Fox Who Will Guard the Nation’s Henhouses (And Five Questions the Senate Should Ask Him) by Karen Perry Stillerman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Jan 24, 2017
- Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources by Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Jan 25, 2017
- Are scientists going to march on Washington? by Sarah Kaplan, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
- EPA Scientists' Work May Face 'Case By Case' Review by Trump Team, Official Says by Nathan Rott, NPR, Jan 25, 2017
- Report: Trump Team Backtracks On Order To Remove EPA Climate Site by Caitlin MacNeal, TPM Livewire, Jan 25, 2017
- In a fiery speech, California Gov. Jerry Brown defends climate action and attacks ‘alternative facts’ by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
Thu Jan 26, 2017
- EPA science under scrutiny by Trump political staff by Michael Biesecker & Seth Borenstein, AP, Jan 25, 2017
- Silenced Federal Agencies Violating Their Own Policies by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 24, 2017
- Reported Trump Science Adviser Rejects Climate Science by Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Jan 25, 2017
- We may be closer than we thought to dangerous climate thresholds by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 26, 2017
- Climate March to Descend on Washington in April by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Jan 25, 2017
- How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters by Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360. Jan 26, 2017
- America Can’t Afford to Be a Climate Loner by Andrew Light & David Waskow, World Resources Instittue (WRI), Jan 25, 2017
- Extreme weather on the rise in Europe by Hilke Fischer, Deutsche Welle (DW), Jan 26, 2017
Fri Jan 27, 2017
- The War on Facts Is a War on Democracy, Opnion by Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, Jan 25, 2017
- What the hell is going on at the EPA right now? by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 26. 2017
- The nation’s top scientists can’t get through to Trump — and they’re alarmed by Joel Achenbach, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Jan 26, 2016
- Irish lawmakers vote to divest from fossil fuels by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Jan 26, 2017
- Reports on climate change have disappeared from the State Department website by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 26, 2017
- What can climate models tell us about impacts at 1.5C and 2C?, Guest post by Rachel James, Carbon Brief, Jan 25, 2017
- 21 kids are fighting Trump's attempts to delete federal climate websites by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Jan 27, 2017
- What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Dismantle Obama’s Climate Rules by Coral Davenport, New York Times, Jan 26, 2017
Sat Jan 28, 2017
- Climate Change Summit Scheduled to Replace One CDC Scrapped by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Jan 27, 2017
- Here’s One Way Trump’s Team Could Manipulate Government Data by Ramin Skibba, Slate, Jan 26, 2017
- As Climate Change Accelerates, Floating Cities Look Like Less of a Pipe Dream by Mike Ives, New York Times, Feb 27, 2017
- Navigating Climate Change in America’s Heartland by Hiroku Tabuchi, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Jan 28, 2017
- War on Facts Sparks Momentum for Scientists' March on Washington by Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, Jan 25, 2017
- Scientists Increasingly Speak Out by Debra Kahn. Policy & Ethics, E&E News/Scientific Amreican, Jan 27, 2017
- Trump's Dirty Climate Plan Out-of-Step as Most Americans Want Renewables by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, Jan 23, 2017
- The Delusion of Alternative Facts by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, Illusion Chasers, Scientific American, Jan 27, 2017
Re: "21 kids are fighting Trump's attempts to delete federal climate websites".
The article is misleading. The "The "Juliana v United States" case was filed in and heard for the first time in Oregon in March 2016 well before the 2016 election campaign and even before T-man emerged as its frontrunner. The Obama administration (against whom the suit was filed) tried to dismiss it and failed according to this ruling. The latest ruling on the case by district judge Ann Aiken from Nov 10, 2016, allowing it to proceed, coincides with T-man election victory date but has nothing to do with T-man himself. The case would have proceeded unchanged had Clinton won the alection (I doubt judge Aiken's mind was influenced by that even in the yesterday of the ruling). Needless to mention that, T-man's "attempts to delete federal climate websites" is completely irrelevant to this case.
So, the article is very misleading, confusing the irrelevant events (the rise of an irresponsible conman to the POTUS office and his subsequent actions) with the Juliana v United States case which precedes these events.
The Fox Who Will Guard the Nation’s Henhouses (And Five Questions the Senate Should Ask Him) by Karen Perry Stillerman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Jan 24, 2017
I got a kick out of this one particularly because I used the exact same analogy 2 days ago! Excellent article!
In case AUS federal politics are not on this site's radar, here's the rebirth of "clean coal" meme debunked here in the past:
Coal could get clean-energy subsidy under new Turnbull focus
So Turnbull will have directed the subsidies to coal power stations in a move embracing his predecessor (Abbott) slogan that "coal isgood for humanity". Sad but it was somewhat predictable: Turnbull revealed time and time since becoming PM, that science is not any guidance in his policy decisions.