Posted on 11 July 2021 by BaerbelW

The following articles sparked above average interest during the week: What’s the carbon footprint of a wind turbine?, Analysts dissect historic Pacific Northwest ‘heat dome’, A guide to prebunking: a promising way to inoculate against misinformation, Hundreds died in the West's heat wave last week. Now another one is gearing up, An Indigenous Group’s Objection to Geoengineering Spurs a Debate About Social Justice in Climate Science, Western Heat Wave ‘Virtually Impossible’ without Climate Change, Australia govt to appeal court ruling on climate change duty of care.

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• Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the 'Most Extreme in World Weather Records' by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson
• Climate change has gotten deadly. It will get worse. by Sarah Kaplan, Climate & Environment, Washiongton Post, July 3, 2021
• Deciphering the rise and fall of Antarctic sea ice extent by Guest Post by Clare Eayrs & David Holland, Carbon Brief, July 29, 2021
• Ice Dam Bursts Threaten to Increase Sunny Day Floods as Hotter Temperatures Melt Glaciers by Haley Dunleavy, Science, Inside Climate News, July 3, 2021
• New Zealand experiences hottest June on record despite polar blast by Eva Corlett, New Zealand, The Guardian, July 5, 2021
• EU biofuels goals seen behind deforested area as big as the Netherlands by Arthur Neslen, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 4, 2021
• Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) by Alice Bell, Science, The Guardian, July 5, 2021
• What’s the carbon footprint of a wind turbine? by Sara Peach, Articles, Yale Climat Connections , Jun 30, 2021
• Melting tropical glaciers sound an early warning by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, July 5, 2021
• Forests of the Living Dead by Liza Gross, Science, Inside Climate News, July 6, 2021
• Hundreds died in the West's heat wave last week. Now another one is gearing up. by Hannah Gard & Taylor Ward, CNN, July 6, 2021
• Animals are shrinking. Blame climate change. by Benji Jones, Vox, July 6, 2021
• More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave, says UBC researcher by Richard Migdal, Canada, CBC News, July 5, 2021
• Analysts dissect historic Pacific Northwest ‘heat dome’ by Peter Sinclair, This Is Not Cool, Yale Climate Connections, July 6, 2021
• The Time May Finally Be Ripe for a National Climate Service by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News/Scientific American, July 6, 2021
• North America Has Its Hottest June on Record by Henry Fountain, Climate & Environment, New York Times, July 7, 2021
• The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot by Oponion by Peter Gleick, Comment is Free, The Guardian, July 7, 2021
• An Indigenous Group’s Objection to Geoengineering Spurs a Debate About Social Justice in Climate Science by Haley Dunleavy, Justice, Inside Climate News, July 7, 2021
• A guide to prebunking: a promising way to inoculate against misinformation by Laura Garcia, Tommy Shane, First Draft, Jun 29, 2021
• Pacific north-west heatwave shows climate is heading into ‘uncharted territory’ by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 7, 2021
• Seafloor microbes hoover up methane, keeping global warming in check by Elizabeth Claire Alberts on 8 July 2021 by Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Oceans, Mongabay, July 8, 2021
• New scorching heat wave building across Western U.S. by Matthew Cappucci, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, July 8, 2021
• Climate change altered the size of human bodies by Amy Woodyatt, CNN, CNN, July 8, 2021
• Halfway point in this year's run of Denial101x - 5 more months to go! by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Jul 9, 2021
• Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’ by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Global Developement, The Giardian, July 8, 2021
• Southwest at highest heat risk level as heat wave this weekend threatens to break all-time temperature records by Hannah Gard & Haley Brink, CNN, July 9, 2021
• Western Heat Wave ‘Virtually Impossible’ without Climate Change by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News/Scientific American, July 8, 2921
• Cities along the Great Lakes Face Rising Water and Costs by Daniel Cusick, E&E News/Scientific American , July 9, 2021
• Australia govt to appeal court ruling on climate change duty of care by Melanie Burton, Reuters, July 9, 2021
• Tilting at Strawmen and Other Tricks of Climate Denial Enablers by Mark Boslough, Bay Area Skeptics on YouTube, Jul 9, 2021
• How marginalized communities in the South are paying for the price for “green energy” in Europe by Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN, July 9, 2021
• Why North America's killer heat scares me by Roger Harriban, BBC News, July 9, 2021
• North American heatwave broke records – and the climate models by Chloé Farand, Climate Home News, July 7, 2021