2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #34

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.

Sun, Aug 16

Alaska’s quest to power remote villages — and how it could spread clean energy worldwide by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 14, 2015
Egypt Heat Wave Kills More As Global Warming Strikes, Inquistr, Aug 16, 2015
Millions To Be Spent To Protect Sewage Plants From Effects Of Climate Change by Gregory B. Hladky, Hartford Courant, Aug 16, 2015

Mon, Aug 17

Oyster farmers worried as climate change lowers ocean pH by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisico Chronicle, Aug 16, 2015
Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', says Canadian author Naomi Klein by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Aug 16, 2015
Fox News' inner struggle with climate misinformation by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus-the 97%, The Guardian, Aug 17, 2015
Climate change has a moral dimension that can't be ignored, Op-ed by Rev. Matt Schultz, Alaska Dispatch NewsAug 16, 2015
Myths of the Australian climate change debate by Adam Morton, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 16, 2015
Bulk Energy Storage Would Increase Total U.S. Electricity System Emissions, Study Says by Robert Fares, Scientific American, Aug 17, 2015
Global warming is reversing 1,800 years of natural ocean cooling, study finds by Steve Connor, The Independent, Aug 17, 2015
Global warming to drive quadrupling of extreme weather trifecta, study finds by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2015
Global Warming Is Here and Now: July 2015 Was the Hottest Month on Record by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Aug 17, 2015

Tue, Aug 18

Global warming to drive quadrupling of extreme weather trifecta, study finds by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 18, 2015
1,000 Activists Join Together to Say No to Big Coal by Tierney Smith, TckTckTck/EcoWatch, Aug 17, 2015
The Time for Feeling Powerless in the Face of Climate Chaos Is Over by May Boeve, 350.org/The Huffington Post, Aug 17, 2015
Climate change set to fuel more "monster" El Niños, scientists warn by Roz Pidcock, The Carbon Brief, Aug 17, 2015
Goni forecast to become super typhoon as it spins west toward Taiwan by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Aug 17, 2015
Islamic leaders issue bold call for rapid phase out of fossil fuels by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Aug 18, 2015
No Agnostics in the Climate Foxhole by John Hewson, Project Syndicate/Policy Innovations, Aug 17, 2015
Damned Lies, Minister Hunt and Climate Models by Clive Hamilton, The Conversation, Aug 17, 2015

Wed, Aug 19

Forget the hostile Congress – Obama can cut global climate deals on his own terms by Luke Kemp, The Conversation AU, Aug 19, 2015
African states urged to bolster responses to climate change by Eugene Kwibuka, The New Times (Rawanda), Aug 18, 2015
E.P.A. Announces New Rules to Cut Methane Emissions by Gardiner Harris and Coral Davenport, New York Times, Aug 18, 2015
Arctic Drilling Approval Threatens Obama's Climate Legacy by Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News, Aug 18, 2015
One of the world’s fastest melting glaciers may have just lost its biggest chunk of ice on record by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 19, 2015
China’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions May Have Been Overstated by More Than 10% by Chris Buckley, New York Times, Aug 19, 2015
The Islamic Climate Change Declaration Could Be More Effective Than Pope Francis's Encyclical by Emma Foehringer Merchant, New Republic, Aug 19, 2015

Thu, Aug 20

For Pluto 'Truthers,' the New Horizons Mission Is Only the Latest Lie by Max Kutner, Newsweek, Aug 19, 2015
India offers technology to Pacific island countries to cope with climate change by PTI, The Economic Times, Aug 19, 2015
The Weight of the World:Can Christiana Figueres persuade humanity to save itself? by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, Aug 24, 2015 Issue
Scientists say global warming has made California’s drought 25 percent worse by Darryl Fears, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 20, 2015
Scientists are still trying to figure out how fast West Antarctica could melt by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Aug 20, 2015
Climate stance of Australian politicians 'disturbing' – US Geological Survey chief by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, Aug 19, 2015
How to make people care about climate change? Tell it one story at a time by Heather Smith, Grist, Aug 19, 2015

Fri, Aug 21

Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science fiction to make sense of it by Claire L Evans via Creative Time Reports, The Guardian, Aug 20, 2015
How climate change is spawning a new view of conservation by Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor, Aug 20, 2015
10 years on from Hurricane Katrina: What have we learned? by Roz Pidcock, The Carbon Brief, Aug 19, 2015
July Was Earth’s Hottest Month Ever Recorded by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Aug 20, 2015
Victorian government to back new wind farms as part of renewables plan by Tom Arup, The Age (Australia), Aug 21, 2015
#TalkAboutIt: Climate change sceptics versus the scientists by Clara Tran and staff, #TalkAboutIt, ABC, Aug 21, 2015
Homes Make as Much Energy as They Use by Brittany Patterson and ClimateWire, Scientific American, Aug 21, 2015
Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels by Bill McKibben, Common Dreams, Aug 21, 2015

Sat, Aug 22

State of Emergency Declared as Wildfires Create 'Unprecedented Cataclysm' in Washington by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Aug 21, 2015
Torrential rains, prolonged drought - climate change causing more extreme weather by Carla Bleiker, Deutsche Welle (DW), Aug 21, 2015
Abbott's smoke and mirrors before Paris climate summit by Mike Seccombe, The Saturday Paper, Aug 22, 2015
The little boy and his changing faces, Nature Climate Change Editorial, Nature Climate Change 5, 787 (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2790 Published online 17 August 2015
Will REDD+ help save Indonesia’s forest, or create ‘carbon cowboys’ instead? by Simon Pollock, Mongabay, Aug 20, 2015
Chile approves 260MW ‘baseload’ solar plant with storage by Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy, Aug 21, 2015
Improving weather brings optimism to wildfire fight by by Joseph O’Sullivan & Hal Bernton, Seattle Times, Aug 22, 2015
Climate change: Municipalities unprepared for 'weather whiplash,' warns meteorologist The Canadian Press, CBC News, Aug 22, 2015

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 22 August, 2015

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