2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #30

Sun July 17, 2016

• Reshuffle: DECC folded into new department headed by Greg Clark by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, July 14, 2016
• Hooked! The Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life by Michael Klare, TomDispatch/Alternet, July 15, 2016
• Alaska has been breaking heat records as if it's going out of style by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, July 14, 2016
• High temperatures, 'corn sweat' form dangerous heat dome over U.S. by Jennifer Gray and Dave Hennen, CNN, July 17, 2016
• Cyclones set to get fiercer as world warms by Alex Krby, Climate News Network, July 16, 2016
• Earth's 5th Costliest Non-U.S. Weather Disaster on Record: China's $22 Billion Flood by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, WunderBlog, Weather Underground, July 16, 2016
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Mark Watts by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, July 13, 2016
• Climate change needs to be treated with more urgency, says scientist by Jamie Morton, NZ Herald, July 18, 2016

Mon July 18, 2016

• Drought caused the Amazon to stop storing carbon by llipuma, GeoSpace, AGU Blogosphere, July 15, 2016
• ‘Chains of causality whose ends we cannot see’ by Vidya Venkat, The Hindu, July 17, 2016
• Global Climate Spending Focusing on Forest Protection by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, July 15, 2016
• UN criticises UK and Germany for betraying Paris climate deal by Adam Vaughn, Guardian, July 18, 2016
• A fuel fee can reduce airline emissions — but it likely will mean higher airfares, study says by Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2016
• Déjà vu: as with tobacco, the climate wars are going to court by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus-the 97%, Gurdian, July 18, 2016
• Greenland Is Still Melting Away by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, July 18, 2016
• Expanding farms harm nature on 58 pct of world's land - study by Alister Doyle, Reuters, July 14, 2016

Tue July 19, 2016

• Canada to implement national carbon price by Timothy Cama, The Hill, July 18, 2016
• Increased Asthma Attacks Tied to Exposure to Natural Gas Production by Lisa Song & Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, July 18, 2016
• Climate-Friendly Republicans Are Skipping GOP Convention by Evan Lehmann, ClimateWire/Scientific American, July 18, 2016
• Are seawalls the best answer to rising sea levels – or is retreat a better option? by Rebecca Dargie, Guardian, July 18, 2016
• June sets another global temperature record, extending a blazingly hot year by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, June 19, 2016
• Soaring Temperatures Will Make It Too Hot to Work, UN Warns by Jessica Shankleman & Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg News, Jily 18, 2016
• Huge swaths of Russia's forests are ablaze during what may be a record fire season by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, July 18, 2016
• Fuel Targets Threatened by Demand for Big Autos by Bill Vlasic, Energy & Environment, New York Times, July 18, 2016

Wed July 20, 2016

• Why toxic algae blooms like Florida’s are so dangerous to people and wildlife by Ernst B. Peebles, The Conversation US, July 19, 2016
• Global warming set to cost the world economy £1.5 trillion by 2030 as it becomes too hot to work by Ian Johnston, The Independent, July 19, 2016
• Fighting Obama’s Climate Plan, but Quietly Preparing to Comply by Coral Davenport, New York Times, July 19, 2016
• GOP platform, which calls coal ‘clean’, would reverse decades of U.S. energy and climate policy by Steven Mufson, Washington Post, July 19, 2016
• Conservative groups push back against Republican party's climate denialism by Oliver Milman, Guardian, July 20, 2016
• The GOP Fiddles While America Burns by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, July 20, 2016
• The Antarctic Peninsula is cooling — but climate skeptics shouldn’t get too excited by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 20, 2016
• Republicans have no real answer for the collapsing US coal industry by Brad Pulmer, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 20, 2016

Thu July 21, 2016

• New Concentrating Solar Tower Is Worth Its Salt with 24/7 Power by Knvul Sheikh, Scientific American, July 14, 2016
• North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for - study by Sebastien Malo, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 20, 2016
• First Half of 2016 Blows Away Temp Records by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, July 19, 2016
• GOP economic plan based on disregarding climate change, Op-ed by Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, July 20, 2016
• Document trove details links between tobacco, oil industries by Benjamin Hulac, ClimateWire, July 20, 2016
• Sections of Great Barrier Reef suffering from 'complete ecosystem collapse' by Michael Slezak, Guardian, July 21, 2016
• Exclusive: Trump considering fracking mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary - sources by Michelle Conlin, Reuters, July 21, 2016
• What science can tell us about the links between global warming and massive heat waves by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 21, 2016

Fri July 22, 2016

• Climate change could curb malaria risk in West Africa by end of century by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 18, 2016
• As climate change threatens transport, Indonesia needs to plan ahead, Op-ed by Ratna Kusumaningrum, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 21, 2016
• Analysis: How UK leaving the EU would increase climate targets for others
• 6 Ways The GOP’s Environmental Platform Will Damage The Earth by Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post, July 21, 2016
• Eastern Hemisphere's All-Time Temperature Record: Kuwait Fries in 54°C (129.2°F) Heat by Jeff Masters, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, July 22, 2016
• Sizzling Midwest Feels a Preview of a Hotter Future Climate by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, July 22, 2016
• The best strategies to keep bodies cool in a heatwave, according to researchers by John Abraham, Climate Consensus-the 97%, Guardian, July 21, 2016
• World leaders poised to seal landmark emissions deal in Vienna by Joseph Dussault, Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 2016
• Fossil Fuel Money Still a Dry Well for Trump Campaign by Marianne Lavell, InsideClimate News, July 22, 2016

Sat July 23, 2016

• Natural forces overpowering Antarctic Peninsula warming by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, July 20, 2016
• This is Obama’s plan to line the country’s roads with electric vehicle chargers by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 21, 2016
• Escalating Battle Over Exxon Investigation Subpoenas Could End Up in Court by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, July 20, 2016
• Drought 'shuts down Amazon carbon sink' by Mark Kinver, BBC News, July 22, 2016
• Russian wildfires put key climate change resource at risk, AFP-JIJI, Reuters/Japan Times, July 22, 2016
• Global climate breaks new records January to June 2016, World Meterological Organization (WMO), June 21, 2016
• A Sequel to the Paris Climate Accord Is Developing in Vienna by Coral Davenport, New York Times, July 23, 2016
• Nick Hurd confirmed as climate minister in new UK department by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, July 21, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 23 July, 2016

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