2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #7

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

Sun Feb 7

Deceleration of the Greenland ice sheet caused by 11,000-year-old events by Catherine Jex, Science Nordic, Feb 5, 2016
The Carbon Brief Interview: Lisa Nandy by Leo Hickman, Carbon Brief, Feb 3, 2016
As Rubio Waffles, Two Floridians in the House Seek Bipartisan Climate Solutions by Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, Feb 6, 2016
Climate Economists React to Obama’s Proposed Oil Tax by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 6, 2016
U.S., India in talks to settle solar power trade dispute by David Lawder, Reuters, Feb 5, 2016
National Climate Framework At Centre of Federal-Provincial Meeting in Vancouver, March 3rd by Derek Leahy, DeSmog Canada, Feb 5, 2016
Green Groups to Obama: Take Oceans Out of Offshore Drilling 'Crosshairs' by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Feb 3, 2016
World's largest offshore windfarm to be built off Yorkshire coast by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, Feb 3, 2016

Mon Feb 8

Australia, the US and Europe are climate ‘free-riders’: it’s time to step up by Glenn Althor,& James Watson & Richard Fuller, The Conversation AU, Feb 5, 2016
Heat to stay on CSIRO climate cuts amid claims Malcolm Turnbull was 'blindsided' by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 7, 2016
Alberta creates dedicated climate change office by Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald, Feb 2, 2016
CSIRO head Larry Marshall defends climate research cuts as angry scientists protest in Melbourne, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 8, 2016
No climate conspiracy: NOAA temperature adjustments bring data closer to pristine by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 8. 2016
Scientists just uncovered yet another troubling fact about Antarctica’s ice by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 8, 2016
Sea-level rise 'could last twice as long as human history' by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Feb 8, 2016
Rising CO2 in the ocean will make fish ‘intoxicated,’ scientists predict by Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, Feb 8, 2016

Tue Feb 9

US Renewable Energy Eclipses Fossil Fuels For Second Year Running, Says BNEF by Joshua Hill, ArsTechnica, Feb 5, 2016
If you thought solar was going to hurt utilities, get a load of solar+storage by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Feb 5, 2016
New Hampshire Republicans Are Really, Really Anti-Science by Jeremy Schulman, Mother Jones, Feb 8, 2016
Climate Change Keeps Coming Up At GOP Campaign Stops — And People Are Clapping by Amanda Terkel, The Huffington Post, Feb 8, 2016
Australia to be 'isolated' from global research after CSIRO climate cuts: WMO by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 9, 2016
U.N. Agency Proposes Limits on Airlines’ Carbon Emissions by Jad Mouawad & Coral Davenport, New York Times, Feb 8, 2016
Sea level research says only a ‘brief window’ to cut emissions by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 8, 2016
Supreme Court blocks Obama climate change rules by Ariane de Vogue and Dan Berman, CNN, Feb 9, 2016
Climate change driving species to the Earth's poles faster than predicted, scientists say by Felicity Ogilvie, ABC News, Feb 9, 2016

Wed Feb 10

Melting Greenland ice changing ocean circulation, Earth's gravitational field by Sima Sahar Zerehi, CBC News, Feb 8, 2016
Will John Roberts Destroy His Reputation And A Livable Climate At The Same Time? by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Feb 9, 2016
Is Australia's retreat from climate change research start of a global trend? by Jason Thomson, Christian Science Monitor, Feb 9, 2016
Just a half Degree of Separation by David Hosansky, Atmos News, Feb 9, 2016
Australian bushfires on the rise, new research finds by Tom Arup, The Age, Feb 10, 2016
Supreme Court Halts Clean Power Plan, with Implications Far Beyond the U.S. by John H Cushman Jr, inside Climate News, Feb 10, 2016
The gutting of CSIRO climate change research is a big mistake by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 10, 2016
12 ways to mobilise the money needed to stop climate change by Rachel Banning-Lover, The Guardian, Feb 9, 2015

Thu Feb 11

US President Obama signs Africa electricity plan into law, BBC News, Feb 9, 2016
ANALYSIS - UN drive to lift up poor farmers must focus on climate - experts by Magda Mis, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Feb 10, 2016
Obama's Clean Power Plan May Be on Hold, Coal's Fate Is Not by Mark Chediak, Bloomberg News, Feb 10, 2016
Checking Ted Cruz's climate science denial howlers by Graham Readfearn, Planet Oz, The Guradian, Feb 10, 2016
Australian cuts to climate change research may hit drive into Asia by Jarni Blakkarly, Reuters, Feb 10, 2016
What these Christians are giving up for Lent: Fossil fuels by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 10, 2016
California's New Methane Rules Would Be the Nation's Strongest by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Feb 11, 2016

Fri Feb 12

Bolivia's second-largest lake has disappeared by Carolina Chimoy, Deutsche Welle, Feb 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders Singles Out Climate Change in Victory Speech by Evan Lehmann, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Feb 10, 2016
New study suggests northern tundra shifting from carbon sink to carbon source by Lauren Lipuma, GeoSphere, Feb 11, 2016
Water stored on land stopped recent sea level rise being up to 22% higher by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 11, 2016
What is the best description of the greenhouse effect? by Rasmus Benestad, Real Climate, Feb 12, 2016
These 9 EU Countries Are Leading the Renewable Charge by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 10, 2016
New UN report reveals devastating human toll of disasters in 'hottest year on record', UN News Centre, Feb 11, 2016
Bernie and Hillary Have Major Differences on Climate. If Only the Debate Moderators Would Ask. by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Feb 12, 2016

Sat Feb 13

Majority of Science Teachers Are Teaching Climate Change, but Not Always Correctly by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Feb 11, 2016
We may have just seen a truly ominous new weather record by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 11, 2016
More Rain, Less Snow for U.S. Winters by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 11, 2016
Strong El Niño Will Weaken and Could Transition to La Niña This Fall, NOAA Says by John Erdman & and Chris Dolce, The Weather Channel, Feb 11, 2016
The new age of climate exploration by Joseph Robertson & David Thoreson, Climate Consesus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 12, 2016
Over half the world’s population suffers from ‘severe’ water scarcity, scientists say by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 12, 2016
Oh Great. A Climate Change Skeptic Is Moderating Tonight's GOP Debate. by Jeremy Schulman, Mother Jones, Feb 13, 2016
The GOP just despises science: No, really — why would Trump, Rubio and Cruz rather live in a sizzling hellscape than face reality? by Phil Torres, Salon, Feb 13, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 13 February, 2016

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