2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #52
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Vive la résistance: 10 ways people stood up for the planet in 2017
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One year ago, we wondered what would happen after a man who called climate change a Chinese hoax was elected president of the United States.
Certainly, 2017 will be remembered for a series of cringe-worthy political appointments, disappointing regulatory repeals, and controversial executive actions — not to mention Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Agreement. But it was also a year that birthed a new band of scrappy resisters who fought the climate-change denying, regulation-repealing powers that be.
As a result, 2017 was actually a pretty impressive year for resistance — and here are some of the efforts that led that charge:
Vive la résistance: 10 ways people stood up for the planet in 2017 by Justine Calma, Grist, Dec 27, 2017
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Sun Dec 24, 2017
- Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study by Claire Asher, Mongabay, Dec 22, 2017
- Global Warming May Increase Volcanic Activity, Study Says by Pam Wright, Weather Underground, Dec 22, 2017
- China is methodically building the world’s most ambitious carbon market by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 22, 2017
- California Wildfires: What Happens When Trump’s EPA Ignores Climate Change Science? by Jonathan Samet, Newsweek, Dec 23, 2017
- Macron Tries To Keep the Paris Agreement Alive by Eric J Lyman, Pacific Standard, Dec 19, 2017
- Climate change in Lapland: The impact of global warming in the land of Santa Claus by Josh Gabbatiss, The Independent, Dec 23, 2017
- Virtual gold may glitter, but mining bitcoin contributes to global warming, AFP-JIJI/Japan Times, Dec 24, 2017
- 2017 in news: The science events that shaped the year, Nature, Dec 18, 2017
Mon Dec 25, 2017
- How blogs convey and distort scientific information about polar bears and Arctic sea ice by Bret Verheggen, My view on climate change, Dec 22, 2017
- 2017 in Photos: Capturing the Causes and Impacts of Climate Change by Julie Dermansky, DeSmog, Dec 24, 2017
- For Exxon, a Year of Living Dangerously by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Dec 22, 2017
- Piloting aviation industry through a changing climate by Daisy Simmons, Yale Climate Connections, Dec 20, 2017
- Vietnam braces for typhoon as Philippine toll rises to 230 dead by Mi Nguyen & Manuel Mogato, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 25, 2017
- 2017 Was the Year of the Billion-Dollar Disaster, Climate Central, Dec 20, 2017
- Government scientists blocked from the biggest meeting in their field by Sarah Kaplan, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Dec 22, 2017
- From hotumn to meatmares: The words that defined our planet this year by Kate Yoder, Grist, Dec 22, 2017
Tue Dec 26, 2017
- Some curious things about Svensmark et al. reference list by Ari Jokimäki, Skeptical Science, Dec 25, 2017
- New Arctic Is Same As Old Arctic — Except Without The Ice by Steve Hanley, CleanTechnica, Dec 23, 2017
- Three 2016 extremes 'not ... possible' without human warming by Bruce Lieberman, Yale Climate Connections, Dec 18, 2017
- Spades, saplings and sheep: Iceland battles to restore long-lost forests by Marcello Rossi, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 25, 2017
- US government climate report looks at how the oceans are buffering climate change by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Dec 26, 2017
- If you want to propound the science, try a little empathy, Opinion by Craig Cormick, Cosmos, Dec 19, 2017
- Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Expected, and It’s More Extreme by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Dec 26, 2017
- California is powering toward its climate goals. But it only gets harder from here. by Sammy Roth, The Desert Sun, Dec 26, 2017
Wed Dec 27, 2017
- Spring foliage appearing too early in the Alps?, SWI, Dec 25, 2017
- Government starts down pathway to net zero emissionsby 2050, New Zealand Herald, Dec 19, 2017
- This year has been an unequivocal disaster for the future of the planet, Opinion by Mark Kelly, CNN, Dec 26, 2017
- The biggest climate findings in 2017 by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News, Dec 21, 2017
- With science under siege in 2017, scientists regrouped and fought back: 5 essential reads by Maggie Villiger, The Conversation US, Dec 21, 2017
- Fake news is a threat to humanity, but scientists may have a solution by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Dec 26, 2017
- Fighting climate change with bioenergy may do ‘more harm than good’ by Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay, Dec 26, 2017
- Global Warming Is a Slow-moving Civilization-ending Catastrophe by Evaggelos Vallianatos, HuffPost, Dec 26, 2017
Thu Dec 28, 2017
- Paper giant and its ‘suppliers’ are essentially one and the same, investigation finds by Michael Disabato, Mongabay, Dec 26, 2017
- The 10 Most Important U.S. Climate Stories in 2017 by Abbey Dufoe, Climate Central, Dec 27, 2017
- Polar Ice Is Disappearing, Setting Off Climate Alarms by Sabrina Shankman & Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Dec 27, 2017
- Rapper's Lyrics about Climate Change Are Smart, Opinion by Mark Fischetti, Observations by Scientific American, Dec 27, 2017
- Does Record Snowfall Disprove Global Warming? 'Exactly the Opposite,' Scientist Says by Lorraine Chow, Ecowatch, Dec 27, 2017
- Megadisasters devastated America this year. They’re going to get worse. by Umair Irfan & Brian Resnick, Energy & Environment, Vox, Dec 28, 2017
- Sea Level Rise Is Creeping into Coastal Cities. Saving Them Won’t Be Cheap. by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Dec 28, 2017
- Trump’s Five Biggest Energy Blunders in 2017 by James Temple, MIT Technology, Dec 27, 2017
Fri Dec 29, 2017
- Renewables generated triple the power of coal in 2017, UK figures show, Press Association, Guardian, Dec 28, 2017
- How to Get Wyoming Wind to California, and Cut 80% of U.S. Carbon Emissions by James Temple, MIT Technology Review, Dec 28, 2017
- Vive la résistance: 10 ways people stood up for the planet in 2017 by Justine Calma, Grist, Dec 27, 2017
- A Response For People Using Record Cold U.S. Weather To Refute Climate Change by Marshall Sheperd, Forbes, Dec 28, 2017
- Wildfires to Hurricanes, 2017’s Year of Disasters Carried Climate Warnings by Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News, Dec 29, 2017
- It’s Cold Outside. Cue the Trump Global Warming Tweet. by Kendra Pierre-Louis, Climate, New York Times, Dec 28, 2017
- Climate change cases predicted to make a legal splash in 2018, Analysis by Sophie Hares & Sebastien Malo, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 28, 2017
- Trump tweets overshadowed these major climate stories in 2017 by Zoya Teirstein, Grist, Dec 29, 2017
Sat Dec 30, 2017
- From the eMail Bag: Carbon Isotopes, Part 2: The Delta Notation by David Kirtley, Skeptical Science, Dec 28, 2017
- New research, December 18-24, 2017 by Ari Jokimäki, Skepticl Scince, Dec 28, 2017
- How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches by Hiroko Tabuchi, Climate, New York Times, Dec 29, 2017
- The President Doesn't Care to Understand Global Warming by Robinson Meyer, the Atlantic, Dec 29, 2017
- How We Know It Was Climate Change, Opinion by Noah S Diffenbach, Sunday Review, New York Times, Dec 29, 2017
- FACTBOX-On the boil: five climate lawsuits to watch in 2018 by Sebastien Malo & Sophie Hares, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dec 28, 2017
- The 2017 Pacific Typhoon Season Saves its Worst for Last: 240 Killed in the Philippines by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Dec 26, 2017
- Trump's call for some 'good old global warming' ridiculed by climate experts by Michael McGowan & Joanna Walters, Guardian, Dec 29, 2017
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 30 December, 2017
