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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #14
Posted on 6 April 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz
A listing of 36 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 30, 2025 thru Sat, April 5, 2025.
This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Change Impacts (18 articles)
- Mar 28, 2025: If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water?, Climate, Science Feedback , Rahul Rao.
- Mar 28, 2025: South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis, World, The Gurdian, Justin McCurry & Agencies. Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sites
- Mar 29, 2025: Losing Forest Carbon Stocks Could Put Climate Goals Out Of Reach, Eurasia Review, Staff.
- Mar 29, 2025: Japan faces 99 times more heatwaves if global warming intensifies, report warns, Southern China Morning Post, SCMP’s Asia Desk. A new report reveals global warming could cause “once-in-a-century” heatwaves annually
- Mar 30, 2025: Widespread Severe Threat Including Strong Tornadoes, Hail, High Winds Ahead For Midwest, South, Easthttps://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2025-03-28-late-march-severe-weather-tornadoes-wind-hail-midwest-south-east, Storms, The Weather Channel, Sara Tonks, Jonathan Belles & Chris Dolce. A widespread threat of severe thunderstorms will develop Sunday into Monday from the Midwest and South to the East Coast Sunday into Monday.
- Mar 31, 2025: Fossil fuels drive climate, health and biodiversity crises, scientists warn, Phys.org, Center for Biological Diversity .
- Mar 31, 2025: Storms target East Coast after leaving at least 6 dead Sunday, CNN Weather, Matthew Rehbein, Hanna Park and CNN Meteorologists, Mary Gilbert .
- Mar 31, 2025: Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming, E&E News/Scientific American, Corbin Hiar. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits
- Apr 1, 2025: Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals, Environment & Energy, The Conversation AU, Timothy Neal.
- Apr 2, 2025: Destructive tornadoes rake across central US in rare 5 of 5 threat, CNN Weather, CNN Meteorologists Mary Gilbert & Brandon Miller; Eric Levenson, Taylor Romine, Sara Smart & Williams, Emma Tucker, Zenebou Sylla & Amanda Jackson,.
- Apr 3 , 2025 : Thunderstorms trigger catastrophic flooding across the middle of the USDid climate change supercharge the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ storm pummeling the central US?, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters. A relentless storm is unleashing floods and tornadoes. Here's how a warmer atmosphere and a simmering Gulf of Mexico could be making it worse.
- Apr 3, 2025: Tornadoes devastate central US as threat of historic flooding ramps up, CNN Weather, CNN Meteorologists Mary Gilbert & Brandon Miller; Eric Levenson, Taylor Romine, Sara Smart & Williams, Emma Tucker, Zenebou Sylla & Amanda Jackson,.
- Apr 3, 2025: Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer, Environment, The Guardian, Damian Carrington. Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
- Apr 3, 2025: Forecasters predict another active 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters. Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is calling for yet another unusually active season with 17 named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes.
- Apr 04, 2025: On the Edge: The people and polar bears of a warming arctic, CBSNews, Erin Hassanzadeh & Aki Nace.
- Apr 4, 2025: Forecast calls for 'catastrophic' floods: Where will it rain the hardest?, UISA TODAY, Doyle Rice.
- Apr 5, 2025: Thunderstorms trigger catastrophic flooding across the middle of the US, CNN Weather, Gene Norman, Karina Tsui & Rebekah Riess.
- Apr 4, 2925: Extreme rainfall brings potentially ‘generational’ flooding to parts of central US already slammed by storms, CNN Weather NN, Hannah Park & Mary Gilbert.
Climate Policy and Politics (5 articles)
- Mar28, 2025: Pension Funds Push Forward on Climate Goals Despite Backlash, Business, New York Times, Eshe Nelson. At a time of resistance to environmental, social and governance goals, pension funds have become a bulwark against efforts to sideline climate risks.
- Mar 29, 2025: A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards, CNN Climate, Laura Paddison.
- Mar 31, 2025: Reconsidering Sovereignty Amid the Climate Crisis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nitya Labh. Island and peripheral countries illustrate how the shape of the world is changing—and how the global order must change to keep up.
- Apr 1, 2025: ‘Chaos’: Trump cuts to NOAA disrupt staffing and weather forecasts, US News, Thme Guardikan, Oliver Milman. US climate agency upended as Doge efforts to slash federal government compromise email security
- Apr 4, 2025: A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled, Climate, Washington Post, Shannon Osaka. Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (3 articles)
- Mar 28, 2025: Global warming doesn’t mean everywhere is warming at the same rate, here’s why, Science Feedback, Darrik Burns,& Adam Scaife.
- Apr 02, 2025: Two-part webinar about the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & John Cook.
- Apr 05, 2025: Fact brief - Is Mars warming?, Skeptical Science, Sue Bin Prak.
Climate Education and Communication (2 articles)
- Mar 28, 2025: Should YOU Be A Climate Activist?, ClimateAdam on Youtube, Adam Levy.
- Apr 1, 2025: Why Al Gore Is Shifting His Climate Activism Abroad, Climate Forward, David Gelles. Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science Solutions (1 article)
- Apr 1, 2025: Sabin 33 - How does waste from wind turbines compare to waste from fossil fuel use? , Skeptical Sicence, Sabin Climate Team
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (1 article)
- Mar 28, 2025: Dreams of the Possible and Impossible for This Year’s Garden, Climate, New York Times, Text by Daryln Brewer Hoffstot & Photos by Kristian Thacke. The arrival of spring brings joy, and a challenge: finding solutions to increasingly erratic weather.
Climate Law and Justice (1 article)
- Apr 02, 2025: The climate movement needs lawyers. This `pro bono bootcamp` helps connect the dots., Grist, Claire Elise Thompson. It's not just high-profile lawsuits — climate solutions need contracts, corporate advice, and IP filings.
Climate Science and Research (1 article)
- Apr 03, 2025: Skeptical Science New Research for Week #14 2025, Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack. 118 articles in 55 journals by 809 contributing authors
Health Aspects of Climate Change (1 article)
- Apr 03, 2025: A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding, Grist, Zoya Teirstein. Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
Miscellaneous (Other - 3 articles)
- Mar 28, 2025: Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research, Scientific American, Dan Vergano. Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation
- Mar 29, 2025: Climate Change Is Must-See Theater in London. Meet the Playwrights Behind "Kyoto", Inside Climate News, Christine Spolar. The 1997 UN climate agreement in Japan has been turned into a play that explores the politics and personalities behind the first global deal to limit greenhouse gases.
- Mar 30, 2025: 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13, Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler, John Hartz & Doug Bostrom. A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 23, 2025 thru Sat, March 29, 2025.
If you happen upon high quality climate-science and/or climate-myth busting articles from reliable sources while surfing the web, please feel free to submit them via this Google form so that we may share them widely. Thanks!
This is a request:
In light of the overwhelming amount of research and analytics being done regarding the many, many facets of the climate, your Weekly Climate Change News has in the past been very helpful for the reader to find vetted journal news to sort through the tsunami of coverage that is almost impossible to sort out. Kudos for your editorial staff to sort through this firehose of information in order to glean it down to semi-digestible quantities!
Maybe it has been there along and I have noticed it, and perhaps it is because of your system of categorization that you are now using, but I have been noticing an inflation of news articles that are inundating the research based articles published in vetted journals. While there is nothing inherently wrong with reporting the "news" in the Climate Change Impacts category, for instance, I can easily find these news articles elsewhere, whereas the journal articles are more difficult to retrieve. Given the huge volume of articles available, you could greatly turn down the "news" volume in order to make it easier to take in the research end of the category. For instance in this week's "Climate Change Impacts" section, the following represent the kind of analytic and research articles I'm interested in finding out about:
The rest of the articles in the Climate Change Impacts category are merely news headlines about unfolding weather events, and we all know that intensity and frequency of these are increasing due to increased capacities of weather systems in an atmosphere juiced by increasing carbon levels. But I'm looking more for research and analyses of those weather pattern changes, instead of reportage of the weather events themselves, which I can find elsewhere. Burying the 7 analyses/research papers amongst the 11 weather news reports makes it more, not less difficult to study Climate Change Impacts, at least for me. Perhaps this might make it easier for you as well!
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wild:
The pattern of subjects/articlesyou ask about is probably because this topic is the News Roundup. It sounds like you prefer to see what is in the New Research post that comes out on Thursdays.