2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Mar 3 through Sat, Mar 9, 2019
Editor's Pick
Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike.
Editor’s note: The authors are the lead organizers of US Youth Climate Strike, part of a global student movement inspired by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly school strikes in Sweden and other European countries.
Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike. by Maddy Fernands, Isra Hirsi, Haven Coleman & Alexandria Villaseñor, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mar 7, 2019
Links posted on Facebook
Sun Mar 3, 2019
- Climate Change Is Having a Major Impact on Global Health by Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, March 2019 Print Edition
- Ruined crops, salty soil: How rising seas are poisoning North Carolina’s farmland by Sarah Kaplan, Nation, Washington Post, Mar 1, 2019
- Flood-prone cities like Houston may need to start buying people out, study says by E A Grunden, Think Progress, Feb 28, 2019
- Is it climate change or global warming? How science and a secret memo shaped the answer by Jen Christensen, CNN, Mar 2, 2019
- Scientists Must Speak Up for the Green New Deal, Opinion by The 500 Women Scientists Leadership,, Observation, Scientific American, Feb 25, 2019
- Whose Key West? Climate change is driving up the price of paradise. by Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Environment, Christian Science Monitor, Mar 1, 2019
- Playing hooky to save the climate: why students are going on strike by Umair Irfan, Energy & Environment, Vox, Mar 1, 2019
- Washington's Inslee puts climate change at center of presidential bid by Sharon Bernstein & Ginger Gibson, Reuters, Mar 1, 2019
Mon Mar 4, 2019
- Developing world split on climate finance at UN flagship fund by Megan Darby, Climate Home News, Feb 27, 2019
- Why we’re looking for chemicals in the seabed to help predict climate change by Katharine Hendry & Allyson Tessin, The Conversation, Jan 28, 2019
- Butterflies aren’t expendable. Our brittle reality depends on them, too., Opinion by Michael S Engel, Washington Post, Mar 1, 2019
- Psychology and the Allure of Conspiracy Theories by Elizabeth Preston, Undark, Feb 27, 2019
- Green New Deal vs. Carbon Tax: A Clash of 2 Worldviews, Both Seeking Climate Action by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Mar 4, 2019
- Pressed by Climate Activists, Senate Democrats Plan to ‘Go on Offense’ by Coral Davenport & Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Politics, New York Times, Mar 4, 2019
- Heatwaves sweeping oceans ‘like wildfires’, scientists reveal by Damian Carrington, Environment, Guardian, Mar 4, 2019
- Trump's new climate panel is a waste of time and money, Opinion by Alice Hill, CNN, Mar 2, 2019
Tue Mar 5, 2019
- Are Australia's emissions going up or down? It depends who you ask by Anna Skarbek & Anna Malos, ABC News (Australia), Mar 4, 2019
- Parliament must declare a climate emergency – not ignore it, Opinion by Caroline Lucas, Opinion is Free, Guardian, Mar 4, 2019
- Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that’s got scientists worried by Julia Rosen, Science, Los Angeles Times, Mar 2, 2019
- On March 15, the Climate Kids Are Coming by Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, Mar 4, 2019
- More Than a Dozen Groups File Briefs in Support of Kids Climate Suit by Dana Drugmand, Climate Liability News, Mar 4, 2019
- How not to science: Lessons from flat earthers and climate change deniers, Logic of Science, Mar 5, 2019
- White House drafts guidelines for panel questioning climate threat to security by Timothy Gardner, Reuters, Feb 28, 2019
- 58 Senior Military and National Security Leaders Denounce NSC Climate Panel, Press Release, The Center for Climate & Security, Mar 5, 2019
Wed Mar 6, 2019
- More marine heat waves threaten fish and corals - study by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Mar 4, 2019
- Analysis: UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018 by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Mar 4, 2019
- A Nearly $1 Trillion California Flood Likely to Occur Within 40 Years by Jeff Masters, Category 6, Weather Underground, Mar 4, 2019
- If America can find $716bn for the military, it can fund the Green New Deal, Opinion by William Barber & Phyllis Bennis, Comment is Free, Guardian, Mar 6, 2019
- Support is surging for teens’ climate change lawsuit by Laura Parker, Environment, National Geographic, Mar 5, 2019
- How Much Would Trump’s Climate Rule Rollbacks Worsen Health and Emissions? by Neela Banerjee, InsideClimate News, Mar 6, 2019
- Trump’s rollbacks would increase CO2 emissions by more than 200 million tons annually, report finds by E A Grunden, Think Progress, Mar 5, 2019
- Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change by Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief, Mar 5, 2019
Thu Mar 7, 2019
- Whole thing is unraveling': climate change reshaping Australia's forests by Graham Readfearn, Environment, Guardian, Mar 6, 2019
- The $1 Trillion Storm: How a Single Hurricane Could Rupture the World Economy by Geoff Dembicki, Vice, Mar 3, 2019
- Tempers flare in Senate over Green New Deal, climate change by Mariam Kahn, ABC News, Mar 6, 2019
- Far-Right Climate Denial Is Scary. Far-Right Climate Acceptance Might Be Scarier. by Eric Levitz, intelligencer, New York Magazine, Mar 6, 2019
- People Need to Be Scared About Climate Change. They Also Need to Recognize That It’s Not Too Late. by Grist Staff, Mother Jones, Mar 6, 2019
- Our planet just set a scary new carbon dioxide record by Eric Holthaus, Grist, Mar 6, 2019
- Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike. by Maddy Fernands, Isra Hirsi, Haven Coleman & Alexandria Villaseñor, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mar 7, 2019
- U.S. Senate Republicans hold rare climate hearing, and more might be coming by Mark K. Mathews, E&E News/Science, Mar 6, 2019
Fri Mar 8, 2019
- Zika, dengue, and yellow fever are about to get much worse by Kelsey Piper, Future Perfect, Vox, Mar 7, 2019
- Climate change: Government deal to boost offshore wind by Roger Harrabin, Science & Environment, BBC News, Mar 7, 2019
- ‘He gets to decide’: President escalates his fight against climate science by Juliet Eilperin & Toluse Olorunnipa, Politics, Washington Post, Mar 3, 2019
- Meet the women deciding not to have kids because of climate change by Adele Peters, Fast Company, Mar 7, 2019
- Rain Is Triggering More Melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet, Including in Winter by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Mar 8, 2019
- Why Good Politics And Good Climate Science Don’t Mix by Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight, Mar 4, 2019
- Carbon Tax Plans: How They Compare and Why Oil Giants Support One of Them by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Mar 7, 2019
- From Antarctica to Costa Rica, women team up to build a climate-safe future by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mar 8, 2019
Sat Mar 9, 2019
- What If Climate Change Were A Game? Earth’s Existential Threat Made Tangible by Carolyn Fortuna, Clean Technica, Mar 7, 2019
- Cantering off a cliff': Investor group warns on weak emissions goals by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 9, 2019
- The US Is Responsible For 26% Of Global Warming Emissions & Is Morally Responsible To Help Solve It by Michael Barnard, Clean Technica, Mar 7, 2019
- Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out, Opinion by George Monbiot, Comment is Free, Guardian, Mar 7, 2019
- Dutch to close Amsterdam coal-fired power plant four years early -RTL by Bart Meijer, Reuters, Mar 7, 2019
- Why this climate change data is on flip-flops, leggings, and cars by Umair Irfan, Energy & environment, Vox, Mar 5, 2019
- There Really, Really Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Climate Change by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Mar 5, 2019
- Mitch McConnell wants a Green New Deal vote. Democrats should take him up on it. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Mar 6, 2019
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 9 March, 2019
