2016 SkS Weekly Digest #26

SkS Highlights

Using the metric of number of comments garnered, the two most popular of the articles posted on SkS during the past week were:

• A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial by John Cook (The Conversation)
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy by Sophie Yeo (Carbon Brief) 

Toon of the Week

Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists

Quote of the Week  

“It’s actually crazy to me, and it should be crazy to anyone in the military, that Congress is telling them not to do this,” said Andrew Holland, the senior fellow for energy and climate at the American Security Project.

“This is what we ask our military and national security people to do, to think long-term, look at emerging threats, figure out ways to protect against these threats,” he said.

Why the GOP is trying to stop the Pentagon's climate plan by Danny Vinik, Politico, June 23, 2016 

He Said What?

Republicans say the directive is a distraction from the real threats the Pentagon should be focused on, particularly terrorist groups in the Middle East. “The military, the intelligence community [and] the domestic national security agencies should be focused on ISIS and not on climate change,” said Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who sponsored the amendment to block the funding. “The fact that the president wants to push a radical green energy agenda should not diminish our ability to counter terrorism.” Buck dismissed the idea that the military should focus on climate change as a threat: “The president has talked about an increase in the climate temperature on the planet,” he said. “It is a fraction of a degree every year. How that is a current threat to us is beyond me.”

Why the GOP is trying to stop the Pentagon's climate plan by Danny Vinik, Politico, June 23, 2016

SkS in the News

John Cook's A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial, originally published in the The Conversation AU, was reposted on Skeptical Science, DeSmog, and Resilience.

Coming Soon on SkS

• Brexit and climate change are inter-generational theft (Dana)
• Alpine soils storing up to a third less carbon as summers warm (Robert McSweeney)
• After six years of working on climate at Harvard, I implore it to show the courage to divest (Benjamin Franta)
• Discovery exposes fragility of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf (Roz Pidcock)
• The War on Science will change how you view the world (John Abraham)
• 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #27 (John Hartz)
• 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #27 (John Hartz)

SkS Poster of the Week

SkS Week in Review 

• 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #26 by John Hartz
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy by Sophie Yeo (Carbon Brief)
• 97% global warming consensus paper surpasses half a million downloads by Dana Nuccitelli (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
• Analysis: Is the UK relying on ‘negative emissions’ to meet its climate targets? by Roz Pidcock (Carbon Brief)
• A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial by John Cook (The Conversation)
• New methods are improving ocean and climate measurements by John Abraham ( Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
• 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #25 by John Hartz

97 Hours of Consensus: Glen MacDonald

Glen MacDonald's bio page & Quote source

Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 26 June, 2016

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