2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51
Editor's Pick
Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump'
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir meets people at a stand of her party set up at the Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik on Oct. 25, 2017.
Credit: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images
Iceland's new prime minister is a feminist and environmentalist who is among the youngest leaders in the world. She has a degree in literature with a special interest in Icelandic crime novels. She appeared in a music video 20 years ago with an Icelandic band, Bang Gang. And she's considered Iceland's most trusted politician by numerous polls.
Her name is Katrín Jakobsdóttir, 41, and she's a mother of three boys and comes from a family of poets and professors. Her new coalition government took power at the end of November, and it spans the political spectrum in Iceland from her Left-Green Movement to the Independence Party to the Progressive Party.
Jakobsdóttir talks with The World's host Marco Werman about everything from what it's like to lead a coalition that straddles the left-right political divide to commuting by bicycle.
Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump' by Traci Tong, PRI, Dec 19, 2017
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Sun Dec 17, 2017
- Arctic Report Card: Lowest Sea Ice on Record, 2nd Warmest Year by Sabrina Shankman, InsideClimate News, Dec 12, 2017
- An American Beach Story: When Property Rights Clash with the Rising Sea by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 11, 2017
- California fire: Resident says neighborhood looks like 'war zone' by Nicole Chavez, CNN, Dec 17, 2017
- Half of U.S. Spending Power Behind Paris Climate Agreement by Stepen Leahy, National Geographic, Dec 15, 2017
- In Kids’ Climate Lawsuit, Judges Question Government Effort to Get Case Dismissed by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 11, 2017
- Some forests aren't growing back after wildfires, research finds by Emily Chung, CBC News, Dec 12, 2017
- Cashing Out From the Climate Casino, Opinion by Bill McKibben, New York Times, Dec 15, 2017
- Uproar Over Purported Ban at C.D.C. of Words Like ‘Fetus’ by Sheila Kaplan & Donald C McNeil, New York Times, Dec 16, 2017
Mon Dec 18, 2017
- Greenland's ice sheet is driving global sea level rise. One section is melting 80% faster. by Umair Ifran, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 14, 2017
- World Bank invests $4.5 bln to arm cities against climate change by Sophie Hare, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 14, 2017
- U.S. Military Not Doing Enough to Prepare Bases for Climate Change, GAO Warns by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 14, 2017
- Scientists have beaten down the best climate denial argument, by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Dec 18,207
- Electric Trucks Begin Reporting for Duty, Quietly and Without All the Fumes by Erica Gies, InsideClimate News. Dec 18, 2017
- Major Report: Some Extreme Weather Can Only Be Blamed on Humans by Annie Sneed, Sientific American, Dec 15, 2017
- The White House says climate change isn't a national security threat. The military says it is. by Umar Irfan, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 18, 2017
Tue Dec 19, 2017
- How To Survive Climate Change? Clues Are Buried In The Arctic by Michaeleen Doucleff, All Things Considered, NPR, Dec 17, 2017
- University of Arizona researchers make soil from scratch to fight global warming by Mikayla Mace, Arizona Daily Star, Dec 9, 2017
- China Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Curb Climate Change Emissions by Keith Bradsher & Lisa Friedman, Climate, New York Times, Dec 19, 2017
- Training for Winter Olympics 'going to become harder and harder' with global warming by Eddie Pells & John Leicester, AP/Chcago Tribune, Dec 18, 2017
- Checkmate: how do climate science deniers' predictions stack up? by Graham Readfearn, Planet OZ, Guardian, Dec 18, 2017
- BHP to exit coal alliance over climate change policy, Deutsche Welle, Dec 19, 2017
- Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn't make it go away, Editorial Board Opinion, Los Angeles Times, Dec 19, 2017
- Alaskan snow more than doubles due to global warming: Study, The Straits Times, Dec 19, 2017
Wed Dec 20, 2017
- November 2017 was the third warmest November on record, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dec 19, 2017
- Tax Bill to Preserve Critical Credits for Wind, Solar and Electric Vehicles by Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News, Dec 18, 2017
- Rick Perry’s fake grid crisis just got undermined by more grid experts by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 18, 2017
- From the eMail Bag: Carbon Isotopes, Part 1: The Basics by David Kirtley, Skeptical Science, Dec 20, 2017
- What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA by Talia Buford, ProPublica, Dec 18, 2017
- California sues Trump administration over global-warming gas rules by Kurtis Alexander & David R. Baker, SF Gate, Dec 19, 2017
- Scientists just presented a sweeping new estimate of how much humans have transformed the planet by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Dec 20, 2017
- IEA says world coal demand will rise, despite slashing forecast growth in India by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Dec 18, 2017
Thu Dec 21, 2017
- Trump EPA pick for Chicago office cut enforcement, scrapped climate change information in Wisconsin by Michael Hawthorne, Chcago Tribune, Dec 20, 2017
- Climate change will displace millions in coming decades. Nations should prepare now to help them by Gulrez Shah Azhar, The Conversation US, Dec 18, 2017
- The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change by Emily Atkin, New Republic, Dec 20, 2017
- Baked Alaska: 49th state is having an insanely warm December by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Dec 19, 2017
- Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater by Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, Dec 21, 2017
- Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds by Hans Nicholas Jong, Mongabay, Dec 21, 2017
- A provocative new study says climate change will make Europe’s migrant crisis even worse by Chris Monney & Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Dec 21, 2017
- Latest California Climate Liability Lawsuit Filed by Santa Cruz by Lynn Zisner, Climate Liability News, Dec 20, 2017
Fri Dec 22, 2017
- Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity by Loren Bell, Mongabay, Dec 19, 2017
- Losing the wilderness: a 10th has gone since 1992 – and gone for good by Susan Chenery, Environment, Guardian, Dec 20, 2017
- The New Climate Watchdogs: Democratic Attorneys General Take on Trump by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Dec 20, 2017
- Bioenergy ‘flaw’ under EU renewable target could raise emissions, Guest Post by John Beddinton, Carbon Brief, Dec 19, 2017
- Turnbull has politicked himself into irrelevance on energy and climate in 2018 by Alan Pears, The Conversation AU, Dec 21, 2017
- Science Teachers Respond to Climate Materials Sent by Heartland Institute by Neela Banajee & Jessica Lee, InsideClimate News, Dec 22, 2017
- Iceland's most trusted politician is a feminist environmentalist who is the 'antiTrump' by Traci Tong, PRI, Dec 19, 2017
- 2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review, Carbon Brief, Dec 20, 2017
Sat Dec 23, 2017
- Were Scientists Caught Tampering with Raw Data to Exaggerate Sea Level Rise? by Alex Kasprak, Snopes, Dec 22, 2017
- The Republican Tax Bill Will Devastate Science, Opinion by Ed Perlmutter, Observations, Scientific American, Dec 22, 2017
- How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Dec 22, 2017
- Meet the Lawyer Trying to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki, Vice, Dec 22, 2017
- Brain Drain At the EPA by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, and Marina Affo & Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, Dec. 22, 2017
- In 'defense of science,' researchers sue EPA over move to overhaul advisory boards by Sarah Kaplan & Brady Dennis, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Dec 21, 2017
- California's Thomas Fire torches record books, as 'normal' climate burns away, Analysis by Barry Saxifrage, National Observer, Dec 23, 2017
- It’s Not the Heat. It’s the Humidity. by Neel V Patel, Slate Dec 22, 2017
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 23 December, 2017
