2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #44

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

Sun, Oct 25

Climate finance dispute slows UN talks as time runs short for Paris by Alister Doyle & Megan Rowling, Reuters, Oct 23, 2015
Marco Rubio’s Ideas About Climate and Energy Are Terrifyingly Stupid by Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, Oct 19, 2015
Migration needs a home in global climate deal - UN experts by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 23, 2015
More torrential rain falls on top of overflowing waters in Texas by Ben Brumfield, CNN, Oct 25, 2015
Is Naomi Klein Right That We Must Choose Between Capitalism and the Climate? by Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, Oct 23, 2015
ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation by Melissa Cronin, Motherboard, Oct 24, 2015
Turnbull government selling Australia short on climate change – Bill Shorten by Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian, Oct 25, 2015
Climate change lacks 'the immediacy of now' in conflict zones - experts by Rachel Stern, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 23, 2015

Mon, Oct 26

Clean Power Plan Hits the Books, Soon the Courtroom by Elizabeth Harball and Rod Kuckro, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 23, 2015
World set to use more energy for cooling than heating John Henley, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change research by Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni, & Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 2015
Bernie Fraser says Government's moral case for coal mines argument is 'nonsense' by Naomi Woodley, ABC News (Australia), Oct 26, 2015

Tue, Oct 27

Are fossil fuel companies using IEA reports to talk up demand? by Karl Mathiesen, The Guardian, Oct 23, 2015
Study: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, Oct 26, 2015
Indonesia's fires labelled a 'crime against humanity' as 500,000 suffer by Kate Lamb, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
Greenland is Melting Away by Coral Davenport, John Haner, Larry Buchanan & Derek Watkins, New York Times, Oct 27, 2015
Miami Beach’s battle to stem rising tides by Joey Flechas & Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, Oct 23, 2015
Beyond the high tides, South Florida water is changing by Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, Oct 25, 2015
Global warming could be more devastating for the economy than we thought by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015

Wed, Oct 28

Catholic church calls on UN climate change conference to set goals Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, Oct 26, 2015
Rising Seas Pose Growing Flood Threat by Evan Lehmann & Peter Behr, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 27, 2015
Hurricane Patricia: The role of El Niño, climate change and good fortune by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Oct 26, 2015
For GOP and climate change, time has stood still long enough by David Jenkins, The Hill, Oct 26, 2015
GOP Congressman Goes on a Climate Science Fishing Expedition by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy/Slate, Oct 26, 2015
If Global Warming Is a Hoax … by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy/Slate, Oct 28, 2015
The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee by David Roberts, Vox, Oct 26, 2015

Thu, Oct 29

Buddhists call for strong Paris climate deal to limit warming by Matt McGrath, BBC News, Oct 29, 2015
Imagine if Exxon had told the truth on climate change by Bill McKibben, The Guardian, Oct 28, 2015
Everyone’s favorite climate change fix by Cristina Mazda, The Christian Science Monitor, Oct 29, 2015
Republican Frontrunners Avoid Climate Change by Evan Lehmann, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Oct 29, 2015

Fri, Oct 30

Breaking the link between a conservative worldview and climate skepticism by Andrew J Hoffman, The Conversation US, Oct 29, 2015
It’s been Australia’s hottest ever October, and that’s no coincidence by David Karoly & Mitchell Black, The Conversation, Oct 29, 2015
How Exxon Overstates the Uncertainty in Climate Science by John H. Cushman Jr., InsideClimate News, Oct 29, 2015
The contrasting fortunes of Atlantic cod in warming oceans by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Oct 29, 2015
El Niño Could Push CO2 Permanently Above Milestone by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Oct 28, 2015
Malawi's hydropower dries up as river runs low, menacing forests by Karen Sanje, Thompson Reuters Foundation, Oct 29, 2015
Exxon Mobil Accused of Misleading Public on Climate Change Risks by Justin Gillis & John Schwartz, New York Times, Oct 30, 2015

Sat, Oct 31

The "uncertainty loop" haunting our climate models by David Roberts, Vox, Oct 23, 2015
Climate curbs will slow temperature rise; more needed for 2C goal-UN by Alister Doyle & Susanna Twidale, Reuters, Oct 30, 2015
Cyclone Chapala Could Bring Eight Years Worth of Rain to Yemen and Oman by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Oct 29, 2015
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? by George Monbiot, The Guardian, Oct 30, 2015
The Seeds of the Corporate Funded Climate Disinformation Campaign, the 1971 Lewis Powell Memo by Dale Brown, Ethics and Climate, Oct 31, 2015

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 31 October, 2015

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