Posted on 15 May 2022 by BaerbelW

The following articles sparked above average interest during the week (bolded articles are from SkS authors): The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future, How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens, Experts: Global Warming Is Causing the World's Oceans To Lose Their 'Memory', How a quirk of the brain prevents us from caring about climate change, and Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb.

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• The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future by George Monbiot, Environment, The Guardian, May 7, 2022
• Antarctica's majestic underwater world is trying to adapt to a warmer planet by Allison Chinchar, CNN, May 7, 2022
• An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk by Zoha Tunio, Justice, Insude Climate News, May 7, 2020
• How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens by Seth Bornestein, Associated Press, Mqy 8, 2022
• How a quirk of the brain prevents us from caring about climate change by Justin Gregg, Explainer, Salon, May 8, 2022
• Heat Pumps Are the Ultimate Climate Techno-Fix, But Not a Silver Bullet by Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg Green, May 6, 2022
• Experts: Global Warming Is Causing the World's Oceans To Lose Their 'Memory' by Paw Mozter, Nature World News, May 9, 2022
• Climate change means more rain will fall but its impact on severe storms is less clear Social Sharing by Christy Climenhaga, CBC News (Canada), May 9, 2022
• Why Climate Change Will Exacerbate Inequalities and Grievances in Iraq by Dylan O’Driscoll and Shivan Fazil, NewSecurityBeat, May 09, 2022
• Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb by John Timmer, Ars Technica, May 09, 2022
• There's a 50:50 chance the planet will pass the 1.5C warming threshold in the next 5 years by Hannah Ryan, CNN, May 10, 2022
• Rapid snowmelt caused the lake near Shishpar glacier to flood and wiped out an important bridge by Kasha Pavel, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, May 10, 2022
• Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity by Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360, May 10, 2022
• Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity by Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360, May 10, 2022
• ‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022 by Adam Morton & Lisa Cox, Environment, The Guardian, May 10, 2022
• Reducing harmful air pollution has led to a surprising effect — more hurricanes in the North Atlantic by Rachel Rameriz, CNN, May 11, 2022
• Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts by , AFP, May 11, 2022
• Rehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gasvealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown by Damian Carrington & Matthew Taylor, Environment, The Guardian, May 11, 2022
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #19 2022 by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, May 12, 2022
• The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, May 11, 2022
• Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News, May 12, 2022
• New Mexico wildfire rampages on as fresh blaze engulfs California mansions by Gabrielle Canon, US News, The Guardian, May 12, 2022
• 2022 brings Earth’s 5th-warmest April by Jeff Masters, Eye On the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, May 13, 2022
• The swift march of climate change in North Carolina’s ‘ghost forests’ by Brady Dennis, Climate Change & Environment, Washington Post , May 12, 2022
• Climate change doubled chance of South African floods that killed 435 people, analysis shows by Angela Dewan, CNN, May 13, 2022
• How to inoculate yourself against misinformation by Melanie Trecek-King, Thinking is Power, May 12, 2022