2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #8

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

Sun Feb 14

Who’s hitting the EU’s 2020 renewables target — and who’s holding it back? by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Feb 10, 2016
The Supreme Court could block Obama’s climate plans — but it can’t stop clean energy by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 10, 2016
Study: Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Feb 8, 2016
Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal? by Robinson Meyer, The Atlanatic, Feb 12, 2016
Climate risks could wreak havoc on financial markets, EU watchdog warns by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 12, 2016
Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think, Op-ed by Derek J Koehler, Sunday Review, New York Times, Feb 12, 2016
CO2 Emissions Are Causing Earth to ‘Hyperventilate’ by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 12, 2016
What Scalia’s Death Means For Climate Change by John Upton, Climate Central, Feb 13, 2016

Mon Feb 15

Why fighting anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers often backfires by Jon Cohen, Science, Feb 13, 2016
Europe's climate change goals 'need profound lifestyle changes' by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 15, 2016
Study: 'Major decline' in Antarctic penguin population by Natalie Muller, Deutsche Welle, Feb 14, 2016
Have we reached the tipping point for investing in renewable energy? by Bruce Watson, The Guardian, Feb 13, 2016
A Rockefeller explains: Why I lost faith in Exxon Mobil, and donated my shares, Op-ed by Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, Los Angeles Times, Feb 15, 2016
Climate Quickies: Scientists (Briefly) Discuss Climate Change by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Feb 14, 2016
Global temperatures leap higher in January, smashing records by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 16, 2016

Tue Feb 16

Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, Feb 15, 2016
If You're Not Terrified by Climate Change, Just Consider the Great Barrier Reef by Lane Severson, Pacific Standard, Feb 15, 2016
Why Two Degrees Is So Important—Fossil Fuel Companies Can No Longer Ignore the Need to Act, Guest Commentary by Katharine Hayhoe, Union of Concerned Scientist, Feb 12, 2016
Green investors turn glare on car giants by Alex Pashley, Climate Home, Feb 16, 2016
The decisions we make about climate change today will reverberate for millennia. No pressure. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Feb 15, 2016
Next Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to Climate Change by Eduardo Porter, New York Times, Feb 16, 2016
Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Op-ed by Bill McKibben, Yes Magazine!/Common Dreams, Feb 16, 2016
Earth Kicks Off 2016 With the Most Abnormally Warm Month Ever Measured by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Feb 16, 2016

Wed Feb 17

Surreal Spring: The Cognitive Dissonance of Our Climate Emergency by Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning, Feb 16, 2016
Better water management could halve global food deficit - scientists by Astrid Zweynert, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Feb 16, 2016
The Beetles: Eighty-Nine Million Acres of Abrupt Climate Change by Bruce Melton, Truthout, Jan 16, 2016
Study Ties U.S. to Spike in Global Methane Emissions by Bobby Magill, Common Dreams, Feb 16, 2016
Donald Trump warned against scrapping Paris climate deal by Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, Feb 16, 2016
Scalia's Death Leaves Court in Ideological Limbo as Climate Decision Looms by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Feb 16, 2016
Fossil-fuel industry gets $2,000 in 'subsidies' for each $1 in party donations by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 16, 2016

Thu Feb 18

The best way to protect us from climate change? Save our ecosystems by Tara Martin & James Watson, The Conversation AU, Feb 12, 2016
Rising extreme weather warns of ecosystem collapse: study by Alfredo Huete & Xuanlong Ma, The Conversation AU, Feb 18, 2016
New Evidence Shows Global Climate Change Began Way Back in 1610 by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, Feb 17, 2016
Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 17, 2016
Global Warming Crushes Records. Again. by Tom Randall, Bloomberg Business News, Feb 17, 2016
The key to halting climate change: admit we can't save everything, Op-ed by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, The Guardian, Feb 17, 2016
Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 18, 2016
Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong by Daniel Grosssman, Nautilus, Feb 18, 2016
Scientists: Climate change is attracting more disease-carrying insects to the UK, but don’t panic by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 16, 2016

Fri Feb 19

17 Governors Agree to Pursue Clean Energy Goals by Debra Kahn, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Feb 17, 2016
Big Oil could be hit with a wave of oil company bankruptcies by Katie Herzog, Grist, Feb 17, 2016
Members of Congress call for investigation of Shell over climate change by Ivan Penn, Los Angeles Times, Feb 18, 2016
Republicans' favorite climate chart has some serious problems by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Feb 19, 2016
Warming oceans are turning sea stars to goo and killing lobsters, scientists say by Darryl Fears, Washington Post, Feb 17, 2016
Arctic Sea Ice Is in Record Low Territory (Again) by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 18, 2016
Climate change has dropped off the political radar by Ed King, Climate Home, Feb 19, 2016
Why even catastrophic events can’t change attitudes to climate by Tim Maughan, Culture Lab, New Scientist, Feb 18, 2016

Sat Feb 20

Ocean levels in the Philippines rising at 5 times the global average by Shalini Saxena, Ars Technica, Feb 19, 2016
Mussel power: how ocean acidification is changing shells by Susan Fitzer, The Conversation AU, Feb 19, 2016
Tropical Cyclone Winston grinds over Fiji by Joshua Berlinger & Brandon Miller, CNN, Feb 20, 2016
Climate change will lead to deformed and virus-hit coral reefs by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Feb 19, 2016
Donald & Ted’s Excellent Climate Adventure by Peter Dykstra, The Daily Climate, Feb 20. 2016
What Scalia’s death means for environment and climate by Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation - US, Feb 18, 2016
Cyclone Winston, Strongest Southern Hemisphere Storm in History, Hits Fiji by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Feb 20, 2016
Global wind power capacity tops nuclear energy for first time, The Japan Times, Feb 20, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 20 February, 2016

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