2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #38

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

Sun Sep 11, 2016

Rice paddies raise methane threat by Santosh Koirala, Climate News Network, Sep 10, 2016
Climate change our most pressing issue: PM, APP/Australia News Channel, Sep 10, 2016
Threat more urgent than global warming by Trinh Thanh Thuy, Inquirier.net, Sep 10, 2016
Global warming making oceans sick, spreading disease in humans and animals, scientists warn, ABC News (Australia) , Sep 12, 2016
A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds is now backed up by psychologists by Olivia Goodhill, Influencer 101, Quartz, Sep 11, 2016
Blame Global Warming for Your Bad Attitude by Eric Roston, Bloomberg News, Sep 8, 2016
Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet by Jason Hickel, Guardian, Sep 10, 2016
Clinton and Trump polar opposites on global warming and energy by David R Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 10, 2016

Mon Sep 12, 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon by Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello, Mongabay, Sep 8, 2016
Why Natural Gas Is a Bridge Fuel to Nowhere by Emily J. Gertz. EcoWatch, Sep 11, 2016
That pricey Arctic luxury cruise was just the beginning. Up next: Arctic shipping by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 9. 2016
Why We Need a Carbon Tax, And Why It Won’t Be Enough, Op-ed by Bill Mckibben, Yale Environment 369, Sep 12, 2016
August Ties July as Hottest Month Ever on Record by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Sep 12, 2016
Climate change is really bad for wheat — which is really bad for us by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 9. 2016
Western US faces wildfires explosion by Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network, Sep 12, 2016
BBC climate coverage is evolving, but too slowly by Geoffry Supran, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 12, 2016

Tue Sep 13, 2016

India, Canada agree to combat climate change as per Paris pact, ANI/The Times of India, Sep 12, 2016
Brazil just ratified the Paris climate agreement. Here’s why that’s a really big deal by Chris Mooney & Dom Phillips, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 12, 2016
For Climate Change Science, the Need for Basic Biology Is Urgent by Patrick Skahill, WNPR, Sep 13, 2016
House Science Committee's Climate Change Denialism Enters New Phase by Caitlin MacNeal, TPM, Sep 12, 2016
What Do the Presidential Candidates Know about Science? by Christine Gorman, Scientific American, Sep 13, 2016
Trump’s no Einstein: But his ignorant, illiterate answers to the campaign science quiz reflect a non-stupid strategy by Andrew O'Hehir, Salon, Sep 13, 2016
India is going to use godmen to spread the use of solar energy by Manu Balachandran, Quartz India, Sep 13, 2016
Lower crop yields test market forces by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Sep 13, 2016

Wed Sep 14, 2016

Donald Trump’s Newest Adviser Says Global Warming Is a Huge Threat to National Security by Pema Levy, Mother Jones, Sep 12, 2016
The Surprising Link Between Tapirs and Climate Change by Brian Owens, Ensia/Climate Central, Sep 11, 2016
Legal Scholars To GOP Climate Deniers: You Can't Subpoena Activist Groups by Caitlin MacNeal, TPM, Sep 13, 2016
7 images of Super Typhoon Meranti — the strongest storm on Earth in 2016 by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Sep 13, 2016
Trump and the Republican Party are doing Big Oil's bidding by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 14, 2016
Debunking Malcolm Roberts: the case against a climate science denier by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Sep 13, 2016
Climate change 'significant and direct' threat to U.S. military: reports by Idrees Ali, Reuters, Sep 14, 2016
Typhoon Meranti blasted Taiwan, and now it’s headed to China by Angela Fritz, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Sep 14, 2016

Thu Sep 15, 2016

Insurance industry struggles with increasing costs of natural disasters by Ian Bickis, Canadian Press/Montreal Gazette, Sep 13, 2016
Why the EPA Doesn't Regulate Ocean Acidification by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Sep 13, 2016
EU faces ‘ridicule’ over delay to ratify Paris climate deal by Ed King & Megan Darby, Climate Home, Sep 14, 2916
To Beat Trump, Clinton Needs to Bring Science to the Debates by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Sep 14, 2016
A weather rarity: Tropical Storm Julia forms over land by Judson Jones, CNN, Sep 15, 2016
Americans Appear Willing to Pay for a Carbon Tax Policy by Michael Greenstone, The Upshot, New York Times, Sep 15, 2016
Coal India Plans 600 MW Of Solar Projects by Saurabh Mahapatra, Clean Technica, Sep 15, 2016
Arctic sea ice just tied for the second-lowest level ever recorded by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 25, 2016

Fri Sep 16, 2016

The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage by Lawrence M. Krauss, The New Yorker, Sep 14, 2016
Prepare your portfolio for climate change: BlackRock by Alex Rosenberg, CNBC, Sep 14, 2016
Americans willing to pay to fight climate change (but only a little), AP/CBS News, Sep 15, 2016
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe, TomDispatch, Sep 15, 2016
Donald Trump’s new economic policy plan would be devastating to the climate by Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, Sep 15, 2016
Scientists investigate how atmospheric rivers may change as climate warms by Laura Snider, AGU Blogosphere, Sep 15, 206
Pacific Ocean’s response to greenhouse gases could extend California drought for centuries by Alison Hewitt, UCLA Newsroom, Sep 15, 2016
As fire danger grows, some homeowners are seeing coverage dropped, Op-ed by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, Sep 16, 2016

Sat Sep 17, 2016

Wetland on Tibetan plateau threatened by global warming by Jeremy Koh, Channel NewsAsia, Sep 16, 2016
Climate change does ‘weird things’ to Canada’s Arctic glaciers: expert by Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International, Sep 16, 2016
Canada’s eastern boreal forest could become a climate change refuge by William H. Funk, Mongabay, Sep 16, 2016
Hesitance to Link Some Weather Events to Climate Change 'No Longer Appropriate' by Zahra Hirji, Inside Climate News, Sep 15, 2016
New patent boosts CO2 capture hopes by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Sep 16, 2016
Fossil Fuel Money to GOP Grows, and So Does Climate Divide by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, Sep 15, 2016
Why We Don’t Know If It Will Be Sunny Next Month But We Know It’ll Be Hot All Year by Gavin Schmidt, FiveThirtyEight, Sep 16, 2016
The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage by Lawrence M. Krauss, The New Yorker Magazine, Sep 14, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 17 September, 2016

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