2016 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48

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

Sun Nov 20, 2016

Fighting climate change with inner change: a case for heightened spiritual awareness by Tibi Puiu, ZME Scince, Nov 16, 2016
Two Scientists' Upbeat Views on Marrakech by Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections, Nov 17, 2016
On climate change policy, neither time nor Trump are on Turnbull's side by Lenore Taylor, Guardian, Nov 18, 2016
America’s TV meteorologists: Symptoms of climate change are rampant, undeniable, Opinion by Paul Douglas, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Nov 18, 2016
Climate Change in Trump’s Age of Ignorance, Opinion by Robert Proctor, Sunday Review, New York Times, Oct 19, 2016
Climate change is real: Just ask the Pentagon by W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times, Nov 11, 2016
Trump’s dilemma: to please his friends by trashing the Paris climate deal, or not?, Opinion by Bill McKibben, Guardian, Nov 18, 2016
Video: UNEP chief scientist on 1.5C climate goal and Donald Trump by Leo Hickman, Carbon Brief, Nov 17, 2016

Mon Nov 21, 2016

Faith-based environmentalists hope Trump's views on the climate change by Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service/Houston Chronicle, Nov 19, 2016
The Coal Industry Isn’t Coming Back, Opinion by Michael E Webber, New York Times, Nov 15, 2016
Clean Power Is Too Hot for Even Trump to Cool by Matthew Philips, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nov 16, 2016
Groups working with Republicans on climate are discouraged, but see a glimmer of hope by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus -the 97%, Guardian, Nov 21, 2016
Things are getting weird in the polar regions by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 21, 2016
Probing Worst-Case Environmental Outcomes Under Trump and the G.O.P. by Andrew C Rivken, Dot Earth, New York Times, Nov 15, 2016
As the Paris Era Begins, the United States Decides Between Influence and Irrelevance by Gwynne Taraska & Howard Marano, Center for American Progress, Nov 18, 2016
Trump wants to dump the Paris climate deal, but 71 percent of Americans support it, survey finds by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 21, 2016

Tue Nov 22, 2016

Faiths applaud “unprecedented global consensus” on climate change action at COP22 by Kevin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS), Nov 21, 2016
Class-Action Lawsuit Adds to ExxonMobil's Climate Change Woes by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Nov 21, 2016
The Problem With Abandoning the Paris Agreement by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Nov 18, 2016
Canada speeds up plan to phase out coal power, targets 2030 by Ethan Lou, Reuters, Nov 21, 2016
Exxon Mobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a Climate Conspiracy by John Schwartz, Science, New York Times, Nov 21, 2016
The Rockefeller Family Fund vs. Exxon by David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman, New York Review of Books, Dec 8, 2016 Print Edition
Trump admits 'some connectivity' between climate change and human activity by Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Nov 22, 2016
Trump wants to lift restrictions on ‘clean coal.’ Whatever that is. by Chris Mooney & Steve Munson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 22, 2016

Wed Nov 23, 2016

China’s impressive stake in Latin America’s renewables by Fermin Koop, ChinaDialogue, Nov 22, 2106
With Trump, China Emerges As Global Leader on Climate by Isabel Hilton, Yale Environment 360, Nov 22, 2016
EPA chief: Trump can’t halt U.S. shift to clean energy by Brandy Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 22, 2016
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’ by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Nov 23, 2016
UK to keep carbon price steady through Brexit by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Nov 23, 2016
Trump’s Plan to Eliminate NASA Climate Research Is Ill-Informed and Dangerous by Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Slate, Nov 23, 2016
The Arctic is a Seriously Weird Place Right Now by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Nov 21, 2016
A Portrait of a Man Who Knows Nothing About Climate Change by Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Nov 23, 2016

Thu Nov 24, 2016

Under Trump, expect ranks of faith-based environmental protesters to swell by Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global, Nov 23, 2016
West Antarctica is in huge trouble. But now, scientists say the problem may date back to 1945 by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Nov 21, 2016
The simple, cheap instruments measuring global warming in the oceans by John Abraham Climate Consensus -the 97%, Guardian, Nov 21, 2016
As Dakota pipeline saga drags on, rancor builds, Analysis by Terray Sylvester, Reuters, Nov 23, 2016
Finland set to become first country to ban coal use for energy by Sally Adee, New Scientist, Nov 23, 2016
Trump adviser proposes dismantling NASA climate research by Jason Samenow, Capital Weahter Gang, Washington Post, Nov 23, 2016
The Potential Cost of U.S. Climate Inaction by Tharanga Yakupitiyage, Inter Press Service (IPS), Nov 24, 2016
Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate by Ian Urbina, New York Times, Nov 24, 2016

Fri Nov 25, 2016

Climate change in the era of Trump, The Economist, Nov 24, 2016
Bloomberg Says Cities Will Fight Climate Change, With or Without Trump by Edward Wong, New York Times, Nov 23, 2016
Threat to NASA climate role a 'disaster' for global warming action: researchers by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 24, 2016
Trump or NASA – who’s really politicising climate science? by John Cook, The Conversation AU, Nov 25, 2016
Eight things you should know about the Marrakech climate talks by Seble Samuel, National Observer, Nov 23, 2016
How Important is NASA Research? The World Depends on It—And So Do You by Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 23, 2016
Trump changed everything. Now everything counts, Opinion by Barbara Kingsolver, Guardian, Nov 23, 2016
New 'Global Weirding' Series Informs, Entertains by Sara Peach, Yale Climate Connections, Nov 21, 2016

Sat Nov 26, 2016

'Nowhere on earth safe' from climate change as survival challenge grows by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 25, 2016
Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama’s Climate Legacy by Henry Fountain & Erica Goode, New York Times, Nov 25, 2016
We Have Two Record Hot Days For Every Record Cold Day, and It’s Getting Worse by Kaleigh Rogers, Motherboard, Nov 21, 2016
Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Nov 25, 2016
Bolivian water crisis as glaciers vanish by Jan Rocha, Climate News Network, Nov 26, 2016
Wildfires tear across drought-stricken parts of Peru by Teresa Cespedes, Reuters, Nov 25, 2016
How To Talk To Your Climate Change-Denying Relatives This Thanksgiving (Yes, You Can!) by Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post US, Nov 22, 2016
As warming seas menace fish, communities seek ways to stay afloat by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Nov 25, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 26 November, 2016

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