2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46

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

Sun Nov 6, 2016

Opinion: Americans, if you care about the planet, vote Hillary Clinton Op-ed by Mark Leiren-Young, National Observer, Nov 3, 2016
If Clinton Wins, The Next Energy Secretary Might Be The Current One by Dino Grandoni, BuzzFeed News, Oct 30, 2016
Arctic summer sea ice to disappear with 2C warming, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Nov 3, 2016
Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed by Juan Cole, Informed Comment, Nov 5, 2016
Renewable Energy: Germany to Build World's First Hydroelectric Wind Turbines by Rhenn Anthony Taguiam, Nature World News, Nov 3, 2016
Nicholas Stern: cost of global warming ‘is worse than I feared’ by Robin McKie, Observer/Guardian, Nov 5, 2016
Don’t make a choice that your children will regret, Open-letter to Us Voters by David Archer, Rasmus Benestad, Ray Bradley, Michael Mann, Ray Pierrehumbert, Stefan Rahmstorf & Eric Steig, Real Climate, Nov 4, 2016
Faith groups strengthen call for climate justice, Ekkelsia, Nov 5, 2016

Mon Nov 7, 2016

Katharine Hayhoe, climate evangelist, takes to the web to convert nonbelievers by Joanna Walters, Guardian, Nov 6, 2016
The Battle to Bring Offshore Wind Power to America by Maddie Stone, Gizmodo, Nov 2, 2016
4 Big Questions For This Year’s Climate Change Conference by Nick Visser, World Post, Nov 6, 2016
'Quite sobering': Record hot 2015 could become 'new normal' by 2030, study finds by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 7, 2016
Only three years to save 1.5C climate target, says UNEP by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Nov 3, 2016
President Trump would Make America Deplorable Again by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consenus - the 97%, Guardian, Nov 7, 2016
Latin America to Take the Temperature of Paris Agreement at Climate Summit by Diego Arguedas Ortiz, Inter Press Service (IPS), Nov 5. 2016
Tough choices for the media when climate science deniers are elected, Planet Oz, Guardian, Nov 7, 2016
The unthinkably high stakes for climate change that we’ve completely ignored this election by David Roberts, Vox, Nov 7, 2016

Tue Nov 8, 2016

Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change by David Holmes, The Conversation AU, Nov 8, 2016
Republican Kelly Ayotte Lost Millions of Dollars by Defying Koch Brothers on Climate Change by Alleen Brown, The Intercept, Nov 5, 2016
Trump 'threat' to dominate UN climate negotiations by Matt McGrath, BBC News, Nov 7, 2016
Exxon's Oil Sands Reserves Announcement May Mean Little for the Climate by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Nov 7, 2016
‘Critical Moment’ as UN Climate Talks Resume by John Upton, Climate Central, Nov 7, 2016
Climate change is intergenerational theft. That's why my son is part of this story by Naomi Klein, Guardian, Nov 6, 2016
The Elephant in the Room is Climate Change (Video), Real News Network, Nov 7, 2016
Global warming to impact credit ratings of countries: Moody’s, Reuters/South China Morning Post, Nov 8, 2016
Why scientists are so worried about sea-level rise in the second half of this century by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 8, 2016

Wed Nov 9, 2016

Scientists Have Gotten Really Good at Linking Climate and Weather by Jeremy Deaton, Nexus Media, Nov 8, 2016
How Campaign 2016 could shift the climate debate for the better, Op-ed by James Downie, Washington Post, Nov 7, 2016
Climate Summit's Urgent Goal: Cut More Emissions, Faster by John H Cushman Jr, Climate Central, Nov 7, 2016
Huge Puffin Die-Off May Be Linked to Hotter Seas by Graig Welch, National Geographic, Nov 8, 2016
Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Five Years on Record by Jessica Shankleman, Bloomberg News, Nov 8, 2016
US election: Climate scientists react to Donald Trump’s victory by Carbon Brief Staff, Carbon Brief, Nov 9, 2016
Washington State Voters Reject Nation's First Carbon Tax by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Nov 9, 2016
Toasty October Keeps U.S. on Track for 2nd-Hottest Year by Andrea Thompson, InsideClimate News, Nov 8, 2016
Trump Victory in Presidential Race Stuns Climate World by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Nov 9, 2016
The Paris Agreement will survive President Trump by Thomas Hale, Climate Home, Nov 9, 2016
Surge in plant growth explains slower CO2 rise over past decade by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Nov 8, 2016
What it would really mean if Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 8, 2016

Thu Nov 10, 2016

Donald Trump could dramatically set back efforts to fight global warming by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Nov 9, 2016
What Trump's Surprise Victory Could Mean for Science by Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientific American, Nov 9, 2016
Physics Doesn’t Really Care Who Was Elected by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Nov 9, 2016
Fossil fuel majors strut their stuff for Marrakech by Terry Macalister, Climate News Network, Nov 6, 2016
Donald Trump Victory Breathes New Life Into Keystone XL Pipeline by Alexander C Kaufman, Huffington Post US, Nov 9, 2016
All Is Not Lost on Climate Change by Eric Holthaus, Slate, Nov 9, 2016
Guest post: How scientists predicted CO2 would breach 400ppm in 2016 by Richard Betts, Nov 8, 2016
What a Trump presidency means for U.S. and global climate policy by Nathan Hultman, Brookings, Nov 9, 2016
Climate Action Is More Urgent Than Ever — And We Know What To Do by Michel Camdessus, Huffington Post, Nov 10, 2016
Exxon Widens Climate Battle, May Depose 17 State AGs by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Nov 10, 2016
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump is going to be a disaster for the planet by Brad Pulmer, Vox, Nov 9, 2016

Fri Nov 11, 2016

UK plans to close last coal plant by 2025 by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Nov 9, 2016
Oil Industry’s New Threat? The Global Growth of Electric Cars by Justin Gillis, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Nov 7, 2016
Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees by David Roberts, Vox, Nov 9, 2016
Florida voters reject utility-backed solar amendment by Samantha Page, Think Progress, Nov 9, 2016
Conservatives elected Trump; now they own climate change by John Abraham, Climate Consenus - the 97%, Guardian, Nov 10, 2016
States May Drive U.S. Climate Policy Under Trump by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, Nov 10, 2016
Trump could pull out of global climate accord in a year: lawyers by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Nov 10, 2016
Weak La Niña Expected to Persist into 2017 by Bob Henson, WonderBlog, Weather Underground, Nov 11, 2016
Climate Lawsuit Awaits President Trump by John Upton, Climate Central, Nov 11, 2016
Climate change is impacting all aspects of life on Earth: new study by Shreya Dasgupta, Mongabay, Nov 11, 2016
'Game Over' for Climate? Report Warns Warming Is Still Underestimated by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Nov 10, 2016
Donald Trump and Climate Change: Top 10 Ways He Could Reverse Progress by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Nov 11, 2016

Sat Nov 12, 2016

Science and technology under a Trump presidency by Nsikan Akpan And Leigh Anne Tiffany, PBS NewsHour, Nov 11, 2016
HotSpots H2O: Africa’s Water Challenges by Cody Pope, Circle of Blue, Nov 10, 2016
Is Soil our Secret Weapon Against Climate Change? by Marco Marzano de Marinis, Huffington Post US, Nov 11, 2016
'Everyone is vulnerable': Trump presidency a risk to Australia's climate science by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 11, 2016
‘There’s no plan B’: climate change scientists fear consequence of Trump victory by John Vidal, Observer/Guardian, Nov 11, 2016
Thorny issue of who will pay for climate damage simmers at UN talks by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Nov 11, 2016
Climate Trumps Everything, No Matter Who is President by Michael Mann & Susan Joy Hassol, Guest Blog, Scientific American, Nov 10, 2016
Denier' in White House? You can still take climate-change action. by Henry Gass, Inhabit, Christian Science Monitor. Nov 10, 2016
Climate Experts Weigh in on Trump’s Election Win by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Nov 9, 2016
Trump looking at fast ways to quit global climate deal: source by Valerie Volcovici & Alister Doyle, Reuters, Nov 12, 2016
German government reaches agreement on climate action plan, Reuters/Deutsche Welle, Nov 11, 2016
In Trump, U.S. Puts a Climate Denier in Its Highest Office and All Climate Change Action in Limbo by Marianne Lavell, InsideClimate News, Nov 9, 2916

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 12 November, 2016

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