2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #6

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

Sun Jan 31

Australia's First Powerwall Home Batteries Are Already Installed In Western Sydney by Campbell Simpson, Gizmodo AU, Jan 26, 2016
The cheapest way to scale up wind and solar energy? High-tech power lines by Christopher Clack, The Conversation AU, Jan 27, 2016
Here is the weather forecast for the next five years: even hotter by Robin McKie, The Guardian, Jan 30. 2016
Europe's recent summers were the 'warmest in 2,000 years' by Matt McGrath, BBC News, Jan 29, 2016
El Niño parches Asia Pacific, destroying crops and drying up water sources by Alisa Tang, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jan 26, 2016
Changes to Victoria's bush will have to be accepted under global warming: scientists by Tom Arup, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 1, 2016
Norwegian industry plans to up fossil fuel production despite Paris pledge by John Vidal, The Guardian, Jan 29, 2016
Drought tests a changed Ethiopia by Aaron Maasho & Edmund Blair, Reuters, Jan 31, 2016

Mon Feb 1

Years After 'ExxonSecrets,' Activist Applauds New Spotlight on Old Nemesis by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Jan 27, 2016
Tell the truth, ExxonMobil: a low-carbon future is affordable – and necessary by Natasha Lamb & Dr Bob Litterman, The Guardian, Jan 31, 2016
The climate-change refugee crisis is only just beginning by Peter Schwartzstein, Quartz, Jan 31, 2016
El Niño Is Here, So Why Is California Still in Drought? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 27, 2016
Who politicized the environment and climate change? by Brian C Black, The Conversation AU, Feb 1, 2016
Fox News Republican debate moderators asked a climate question! by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 1, 2016
Explainer: how surface and satellite temperature records compare by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 1, 2016
Climate Change Denier Claims (Heh) That 2015Wasn’t (Ha) the Hottest Year on Record (HAHAHAHA!) by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Feb 1, 2016

Tue Feb 2

Republicans reject climate change fears despite rebukes from scientists by Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, Feb 2, 2016
South Florida Mayors Tell Rubio, Bush: ‘Climate Change Is Real’ by Gina-Marie Cheeseman, Triple Pundit, Jan 29, 2016
Norway Says Arctic Gas Expansion Depends on EU's Climate Plan by Mikael Holter, Bloomberg News, Feb 1, 2016
Climate change in charts: from record global temperatures to science denial by Graham Readfearn, Planet OZ, The Guradian, Feb 1. 2016
Five Facts That Reveal a Warming Planet (Op-Ed) by Jeremy Deaton, livescience, Feb 1, 2016
China Blows Past the U.S. in Wind Power by Daniel Cusick, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Feb 2, 2016
Ted Cruz, you might want to listen to evangelicals on climate change, Commentary by Aaron Daniel Taylor, Religion News Service (RNS), Feb 2, 2016
Polish districts call for coal-free development by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Feb 2, 2016
Why the U.S. East Coast could be a major ‘hotspot’ for rising seas by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 1, 2016

Wed Feb 3

El Niño warmth continued during January 2016 by Caitlyn Kennedy, Climate.gov, Feb 2, 2016
Understanding the 2015–16 El Niño and its impact on phytoplankton by Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Geo Space, AGU, Feb 2, 2016
Why I Think About Climate Change Differently as a Mom by Molly Rauch, Parents, Feb 2, 2016
We’re drowning in cheap oil – yet still taxpayers prop up this toxic industry, Op-ed by George Monbiot, The Guardian, Feb 2, 2016
Measuring ocean heating is key to tracking global warming by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 3, 2016
Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean by Thomas Sumner, ScienceNews, Feb 1, 2016
Four Graphics (and a Book) that Help Explain Climate Change by Adam Voiland, Earth Observatory, NASA, Jan 25, 2016
Higher Temperatures May Doom Many Trees by Brittany Patterson, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Feb 3, 2016

Thu Feb 4

Exxon Stiff-Arms a Request to Take Moral Responsibility for Climate Change by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Feb 3, 2016
El Niño means glaciers in the Andes are melting at record rates by Kate Ravilious, New Scientist, Jan 25, 2016
El Niño and Global Warming—What’s the Connection? by Renee Cho, State of the Planet, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Feb 2, 2016
Australia’s emissions are climbing again, but it already has the policies to turn the tide by Gordon Weiss, The Conversation AU, Feb 4, 2016
CSIRO cuts: from climate denial to climate outsourcing by Marcus Strom, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 4, 2016
The Atlantic Ocean Is Acidifying at a Rapid Rate by Emily J. Gertz, TakePart, Feb 3, 2016
Glaciologists anticipate massive ice shelf collapse by Meghan Murphy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Feb 3, 2016
The hidden environmental factors behind the spread of Zika and other devastating diseases by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 3, 2016

Fri Feb 5

The House Science Committee Thinks the Paris Climate Agreement Stinks by Nick Stockton, Wired, Feb 2, 2016
Could a Legal Case Save Humanity From Climate Disaster? Exxon Could Face a Big Comeuppance by Reynard Loki, AlterNet, Feb 2, 2016
Obama to Propose a $10-a-Barrel Fee on Oil by Coral Davenport, New York Times, Feb 4, 2016
Naomi Klein: “There are no non-radical options left before us” by Michael Winship, BillMoyers.com/Salon, Feb 4, 2016
Why climate change is really, really unfair by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 5, 2016
What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China and Climate Change, Op-ed by Sonia Shah, Sunday Review, New York Times, Feb 5. 2016
Senior CSIRO scientist derides chief executive's claim climate change is 'answered' by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 4, 2016
How big oil spent $10m to defeat California climate change legislation by Anita Chabria, The Guardian, Feb 5, 2016

Sat Feb 6

Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 4, 2016
A Carbon Tax on Meat? by Niina Heikkinen, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Feb 4, 2016
UK Forecasters: More Warming in Store Over Next 5 Years by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Feb 3, 2016
Paradise Lost: How the Climate Catastrophe May Be Tied to a Fatal Flaw in Human Evolution by Helen Camakaris, The New Internationalist/Alternet, Feb 5, 2016
US seafood species highly vulnerable to climate change, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 3, 2016
Cleared rainforest bounces back faster than thought – study by Alex Pashley, Climate Home, Feb 4, 2016
Hot, Dry Weather Could Cut Into California’s Snowpack by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 5, 2016
'Misleading, inaccurate and in breach of Paris': CSIRO scientist criticises cuts by Adam Morton, Peter Hannam & Marcus Strom, Brisbane Times, Feb 5, 2016
Obama's Oil Tax: A Conversation Starter About Climate and Transportation, but a Non-Starter in Congress by John H Cushman Jr. InsideClimate News, Feb 5, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 6 February, 2016

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