2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #30
Editor's Pick
Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution
Coal only makes global poverty worse.
Villagers carry illegally scavenged coal from an open-cast coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, on December 6, 2014. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
A recent paper from 12 international poverty and development organizations (led by the Overseas Development Institute) argues the negative. In fact, the opposite is true: Not only will more coal plants do nothing for energy access, they will impose unnecessary suffering on the poor.
Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 24, 2017
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Sun July 23 2017
- Brazil risks rodent-borne Hantavirus rise due to sugarcane, climate change - scientists by Sophie Hares, Thomson Reuters Foundation, July 20, 2017
- Climate Change and Geoengineering: Artificially Cooling Planet Earth by Thinning Cirrus Clouds by Hannah Osborne, Newsweek, July 21, 2017
- Trump to tap longtime coal lobbyist for EPA’s No. 2 spot by Juliet Elperin & Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 21, 2017
- World’s young face $535 trillion bill for climate by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, July 19, 2017
- 2017 is so unexpectedly warm it is freaking out climate scientists by Joe Romm, Think Progress, July 19, 2017
- Donald Trump’s plan to build a solar border wall, explained with math by Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 20, 2017
- This could be the next big strategy for suing over climate change by Chris Mooney & Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 20, 2017
- A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising. by David Roberts, ;Energy & Environment, Vox, July 21, 2017
Mon July 24 2017
- Go-Ahead Given For 450 Megawatt Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm by Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, July 21, 2017
- The Attacks On Cleantech Leaders Have Begun — Expect More by Zachary Sahan, Clean Technica, July 23, 2017
- 100% Clean, Renewable Energy Is Possible, Practical, Logical — Setting The Record Straight by Karl Burkart, Clean Technica, July 22, 2017
- Household batteries will be key to UK's new energy strategy by Adam Vaughan, Guardian, July 24, 2017
- Study: our Paris carbon budget may be 40% smaller than thought by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consenus - the 97%, Guardian, July 24, 2017
- Sea level warning as Greenland darkens by David Shukman, BBC News, July 24, 2017
- Climate change brings one-in-three chance of record rainfall, warns Met Office by Ian Johnston, Independent, July 24, 2017
Tue July 25 2017
- Scientists Can See Zika Coming by Tracking the Climate by Umair Irfan, ClimateWire/Scientific American, July 24, 2017
- Why Electric Cars Are Everywhere Except Here, Now by John Lippert, Bloomberg News, July 19, 2017
- Extreme El Nino events to double in number even with 1.5-degree warming: study by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, July 25, 2017
- How Distant Winds May Be Causing Antarctic Meltdown by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, July 24, 2017
- A Mississippi-Sized Area of Forest Disappeared in 2015 by Bobby McGill, Climate Central, July 24, 2017
- Turbine Installation Begins for the World’s First Floating Wind Farm, Yale Environment 360, July 24, 2017
- In-depth: How a smart flexible grid could save the UK £40bn by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, July 25, 2017
- Is a Conservative Climate Movement Heating Up? by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, July 25, 2017
Wed July 26 2017
- Indonesia's disaster agency says forest fire threat to escalate by Bernadette Christina Munthe & Fransiska Nangoy, Reuters, July 25, 2017
- Study: Indian monsoons have strengthened over past 15 years by Jennifer Chu, MIT News, July 24, 2017
- Despite Summer Snow, Greenland Is Still Melting by Andrea Thomspon, Climate Central, July 25, 2017
- France wildfires force mass evacuation, BBC News, July 26, 2017
- Solar has not beaten coal in the race to electrify India by Aditi Roy Ghatak, Climate Home, July 26, 2017
- Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk. by Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams, July 26, 2017
- Senate Democrats call for an investigation of climate scientist whistleblower complaint by Juliet Elperin, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 24, 2017
Thu July 27 2017
- Keeping faith in forests by Frances Seymour. Thomson-Reuters Foundation, July 25, 2017
- Every high school debater knows a climate change debate is a bad idea by Jason Abbruzzese, Mashable, July 25, 2017
- Heartland's '6 Reasons To Be A Climate-Change Skeptic' Are Six Demonstrable Falsehoods by Ethan Siegel, Forbes, July 26, 2017
- Trump pulled out the oil industry playbook and players for Paris by Benjamin Franta, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, July 26, 2017
- Australia to build superhighway for electric vehicles beside Great Barrier Reef by Melanie Burton, Reuters, July 27, 2017
- A profile of award-winning climate scientist Kevin Trenberth by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, July 26, 2017
- Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution in the Future by Casey Smith, National Geographic, July 27, 2017
- An appeals court just pressed pause on the much-watched youth climate lawsuit against Trump by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, July 27, 2017
Fri July 28 2017
- In Jerusalem, An Interfaith Effort at Addressing Climate Change by Isabel Feinstein, The Jerusalem, July 27, 2017
- Could Climate Change Crumble Corn Yields? by Deena Shanker, Bloomberg News/AG WEB, July 26, 2017
- These Are The Climate Myths Being Spread By A Powerful Congressman by Zahra Hirji, BuzzFeed News, July 26, 2017
- The climate crisis could rapidly become a food crisis by Elizabeth Winkler, Sydney Morning Herald, July 28, 2017
- The Largest Wind Farm in the U.S. Is Growing in Oklahoma. It’s a Sign of the Times by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, July 27, 2017
- It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter. by Nadja Popovich & Adam Pearce, Climate, New York Times, July 28, 2017
- Scott Pruitt's Crimes Against Nature by Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, July 27, 2017
- Unmasking the climate change deniers by Benjamin Franta, Eco-Business, July 26, 2017
Sat July 29 2017
- Climate change drawing squid, anchovies and tuna into UK waters by Damien Carrington, Guardian, July 27, 2017
- Butterflies, rounding errors, and the chaos of climate models by Emily Becker, NOAA's Climate.gov., July 27, 2017
- Wildfire Season Is Scorching the West by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, July 28, 2017
- Unless we share them, self-driving vehicles will just make traffic worse by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 24, 2017
- Energy poverty is a real problem. Coal is a bogus solution. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, July 24, 2017
- VW, in Settlement, to Build Electric Vehicle Stations by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, July 28, 2017
- Climate Change Used to Be a Bipartisan Issue. Here's What Changed by Justin Worland, Time Magazine, July 27, 2017
- U.S. House Hacks Away at Renewable Energy, Efficiency Programs by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, July 27, 2017
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 29 July, 2017
