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1. wilddouglascounty at 09:23 AM on 7 April, 2025

   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:

   • -If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water?
   • -Losing Forest Carbon Stocks Could Put Climate Goals Out Of Reach
   • -Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
   • -Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
   • -Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
   • -Forecasters predict another active 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
   • -On the Edge: The people and polar bears of a warming arctic

   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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2. wilddouglascounty at 09:25 AM on 7 April, 2025

   (Sorry for the poor alignment in the next-to-last paragraph above: apparently the comment posting window has a different width than the posted comment window!)

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3. Bob Loblaw at 10:35 AM on 7 April, 2025

   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.

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4. One Planet Only Forever at 06:17 AM on 8 April, 2025

   wilddouglascounty,

   In addition to Bob’s good pointer to the weekly New Research posts, I would add that one of the categories for the weekly News Roundup is Climate Science and Research.

   Also, the blue panel at the bottom of the News listing invites everyone to submit an article to be included on the listing. Note that the tagging of articles for the News Roundup categories is done by the person submitting the suggested item. And they can only tag one category. Therefore, some items that are reports about recent research publications will not be tagged for the Climate Science and Research category. Examples are:

   • the article “Losing Forest Carbon Stocks Could Put Climate Goals Out Of Reach” is a news report regarding a new published research item. But I support it being tagged for the Climate Change Impacts category.
   • the article “If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water?” refers to many different publications, but it is not about a specific new research publication.

   Also note:

   • This week, the only item in the Climate Science and Research category is the weekly New Research posting last week.
   • In last week’s News Roundup (#13) there was also only one item in the Climate Science and Research category. But it was not the weekly New Research post.
   • In News Roundup #12 there were three items in the Climate Science and Research category, including the weekly New Research post.

   I am not sure that the weekly New Research post should be included in the News Roundup. But I am not the person volunteering to produce this amazing weekly compilation of informative items.

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5. BaerbelW at 15:02 PM on 8 April, 2025

   OPOF @4

   Thanks for your feedback! I'm just adding the information that the news roundup is based on items collected via the Google form linked at the bottom and in some weeks we get around to adding the New Research article and some we don't - hence it's included in some roundups but not in all of them.

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6. One Planet Only Forever at 08:04 AM on 9 April, 2025

   This week’s news includes several items in the Climate Change Impacts category about the damaging impact of human-caused global warming and climate change on developed and developing global socioeconomic systems.

   • Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
   • Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
   • Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer,

   Those articles provide a basis for continuing a discussion here that started on the recent SkS reposting of “Climate skeptics have new favorite graph; it shows the opposite of what they claim”. The comment discussion had evolved away from the topic of the OP. The discussion had shifted to matters related to the development of sustainable improvements for the total global population, now and into the very far future.

   The three articles listed above prompted me to expand on my semi-conspiracy theory about the development of opposition to the efforts to increase awareness and improve understanding of how people can be less harmful and more helpful to Others. (see my comment @22 and nigelj’s reply @23 on that SkS reposting linked above)

   Additional considerations related to this week’s News items are:

   Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming:

   Quote:

   “The recent reports — from Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and the Institute of International Finance — show that Wall Street has determined the temperature goal is effectively dead and describe how top financial institutions plan to continue operating profitably as temperatures and damages soar.”

   Related thoughts:

   This suggests that some people who know better are not powerfully raising awareness and improving the understanding of the general population. They are trying to maximize their collective benefit in spite of knowing how harmful their lack of action to limit the global harm done will be. It is like the way that the 2008/9 global financial disaster turned out to be beneficial for many of them (very few of them faced a negative change of status relative to Others – many of them increased their status relative to Others). The least fortunate who got little benefit from the sub-prime mortgage scams suffered the most.

   Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals

   Quote:

   “Any impacts from weather events elsewhere, such as how flooding in one country affects the food supply to another, are not incorporated into the models.

   Our new research sought to fix this. After including the global repercussions of extreme weather into our models, the predicted harm to global GDP became far worse than previously thought – affecting the lives of people in every country on Earth.”

   Related thoughts:

   A group of people today have proudly watched a 10% hit happen to global economic activity in a matter of a few days. They think they will be the winners. Everyone will lose because of the unjustified tariff attacks. But the likes of Trump probably think they will suffer less harm that Others will. Some of them may even believe they will benefit from the inequitable unjustifiable actions (paying members of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Cult could have an unfair advantage if they heard about what the Trump Administration would actual do before it became public knowledge). These type of people would have even less concern about actions they benefit from causing 40% harm to the future economy Others have to live with.

   Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

   Quote:

   “The insurance sector is a canary in the coalmine when it comes to climate impacts,” said Janos Pasztor, former UN assistant secretary-general for climate change.

   The argument set out by Thallinger in a LinkedIn post begins with the increasingly severe damage being caused by the climate crisis: “Heat and water destroy capital. Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time.”

   “We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks,” he said. ...

   “This applies not only to housing, but to infrastructure, transportation, agriculture, and industry,” he said. “The economic value of entire regions – coastal, arid, wildfire-prone – will begin to vanish from financial ledgers. Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally. This is what a climate-driven market failure looks like.”

   Related thoughts:

   All of the resistance to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, not just resistance to efforts to limit the harm done by climate change impacts, is raising doubts about, and reducing the sustainability of, capitalism (and democracy – given the recent authoritarian ‘winning of unjustified popular beliefs and related abusive power’ in many democracies).

   The following time-line of events is part of the basis for my semi-conspiracy theory about the reasons there is such a powerful resistance to learning to be less harmful and more helpful to Others. (note that there are many similar things along the timeline ... since the beginning of recorded human history and more recently)

   • 1913 – US 16th Amendment ratified allowing Congress to impose an Income Tax. (Still resisted by many wealthy and influential people who almost certainly know that their resistance is harmfully incorrect. Also resisted by people who are less aware or misunderstand things and have unjustified doubts about the benefits of an Income Tax because they are easily tempted to be misled that way)
   • 1933 – 1938 – US New Deal series of reforms (Resisted - See above)
   • 1948 – UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Resisted - See above)
   • 1962 - Silent Spring first published (Resisted - See above)
   • 1964 - US Surgeon General report regarding smoking (Resisted - See above)
   • 1965 – UN Development Programme - evolved from UN programs that started in 1949 (Resisted - See above)
   • 1972 - Stockholm Conference – identified many harmful developed human impacts (Resisted - See above)
   • 1990 – IPCC first report (Resisted - See above)
   • 2020 – COVID19 – (Influential people opposed to learning to be less harmful and more helpful to Others found new ways to maximize their ability to benefit from being misleading)

   Constantly improving global civilization is not a guarantee. It is very hard work to limit the harm done by people who resist learning to be less harmful and more helpful to Others. They know better, but do not care about how harmful their actions and lack of actions are.

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7. One Planet Only Forever at 10:22 AM on 9 April, 2025

   nigelj,

   Though we substantially agree, I need to respond to the part of your comment @23 (on the SkS re-posting of “Climate skeptics have new favorite graph; it shows the opposite of what they claim”)

   You said: “For example the Democrats proposed some truly stupid ideas like defunding the police. I guess it was an emotive reaction to police abuses but its still stupid.”

   That is a commonly claimed criticism. And it is as valid as claiming that “Tax is evil and Socialist– and imposing a Carbon Price is a tax - therefore Carbon Pricing is Socialist evil” which is the product manufactured by the misleading marketing efforts of people who resist learning to be less harmful and more helpful to Others. Taxes are not evil (or Socialist). And a lack of a Carbon Price that funds full neutralization of the impacts of fossil fuel use is the reason that so much harmful activity became so popular, profitable and powerful - bad enough that many of the more informed and smarter minds are protecting their interests rather than fighting to limit the climate change harm done.

   For the police issue, Defund he Police was a punchy poster statement promoting a more involved matter. The real problem was paying to have the police try to do things they did not have proper training to do – like deal with cases of homelessness, mental health, drug use, and domestic abuse. Shifting some police funding to employ specialists in those non-police realms was the objective. “Defund the Police” was the punchy poster that became the basis for unjustified misleading marketing.

   See the following Brookings Institute presentation on the topic “7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked”

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