2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Oct 18, 2020 through Sat, Oct 24, 2020
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A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate
No joke: It would be disastrous on the scale of millennia.
This piece was originally published August 27, and has been lightly updated.
During the final presidential debate Thursday night, both candidates were asked how they would combat climate change and support job growth. President Donald Trump offered few specifics, merely saying that that, “We have the Trillion Trees program. We have so many different programs. I do love the environment.”
But let’s be clear: If Trump is reelected president, the likely result will be irreversible changes to the climate that will degrade the quality of life of every subsequent generation of human beings, with millions of lives harmed or foreshortened. That’s in addition to the hundreds of thousands of lives at present that will be hurt or prematurely end.
This sounds like exaggeration, some of the “alarmism” green types are always accused of. But it is not particularly controversial among those who have followed Trump’s record on energy and climate change.
“As bad as it seems right now,” says Josh Freed of Third Way, a center-left think tank, “the climate and energy scenario in Trump II would be much, much worse.”
Click here to access the entire article as published on the Vox website.
A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 23, 2020
Articles Linked to on Facebook
Sun, Oct 18, 2020
- The Energy 202: Kamala Harris makes Amy Coney Barrett's climate views a campaign issue, Analysis of Dino Grandoni, Power Post, Washington Post, Oct 15, 2020
- New Climate Warnings in Old Permafrost: 'It’s a Little Scary Because it’s Happening Under Our Feet.' by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 16, 2020
- A boiling summer is now a scorching fall in the West by Allison Chinchar, CNN, Oct 17, 2020
- Climate Change Makes a (Very) Brief Appearance in Dueling Town Halls Held by Trump and Biden by Nicholas Kusnetz & Ilana Cohen, InsideClimate News, Oct 16, 2020
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
- The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Become an Inferno by Catrin Einhorn, Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, Blacki Migliozzi & Scott Reinhard, Climate & Environment, New York Times, Oct. 13, 2020
- How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change? by Lizzie Widdicombe, Books & Culture, The New Yorker Magazine, Oct 17, 2020
- Colorado Wildfire Grows Into Largest in State History by Charlie Brennan & Rick Rojas, New York Times, Oct 18, 2020
- 'It just exploded': Cameron Peak, CalWood fires drive thousands from their homes in Colorado by John Bacon, Nation, USA Today, Oct 18, 2020
- Scientists honing new ways to measure a city's carbon footprint by Daniel Grossman, Articles, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 19, 2020
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
- Rising tides take Charleston to the brim, threatening businesses — even when it’s sunny by Emily Williams & Thad Moore, Rising Waters, The Post & Courier, Oct 19, 2020
- Sahel region is 'canary in the coalmine' on climate, says UN official by Jason Burke, World, The Guardian, Oct 19, 2020
- Why the US election could decide battle against climate change by Matt McGrath, Science, BBC News, Oct 19, 2020
- A climate scientist's up-close personal encounter with a nearby record-setting Colorado wildfire by Scott Denning, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 20, 2020
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
- China delivers diatribe against U.S. climate policies by Steven Mufson, Climate & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 19, 2020
- Trump vs. Biden on the environment—here’s where they stand by Graig Welch & Sarah Gibbens, Science, National Geographic, Oct 19, 2020
- Exxon Turns to Academia to Try to Discredit Harvard Research by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Oct 19, 2020
- California’s Mega Fires Have Arrived 30 Years Early by Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 20, 2020
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
- Deadly Bacteria Lurk in Coastal Waters. Climate Change Increases the Risks. by Ali Raj, Sofia Moutinho, Veronica Penney, Kristen Lombardi & Sammy Fretwell, Hidden Epidemics, Center for Public Integrity, Oct 20, 2020
- Small Nuclear Reactors Would Provide Carbon-Free Energy, but Would They Be Safe? by Jonathan Moens, InsideClimate News, Oct 21, 2020
- The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown by Steven Mufson, Climate & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 14, 2020
- It’s a sea change’: How climate went from the back burner to a central issue in this year’s debates by Bray Dennis, Politics, Washington Post, Oct 22, 2020
- Epsilon shatters records as it rapidly intensifies into major hurricane near Bermuda by Matthew Cappucci, Capital Weather Gang, Oct 21, 2020
Fri, Oct 23, 2020
- Thousands of buildings in SC are lower than FEMA wants. That’s unlikely to change. by Chloe Johnson, Rising Waters, The Post & Courier, Oct 19, 2020
- The world is worried about the coronavirus. It’s equally concerned about climate change. by Jariel Arvin, World, Vox, Oct 20, 2020
- The Energy 202: Biden draws GOP attacks with call to 'transition' from oil by Dino Grandoni, Power Post, Washington post, Oct 23, 2020
- The Elders Call for Surge in Global Cooperation to Combat 'Current Disarray' Set Off by Covid-19, Climate Crisis by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, Oct 22, 2020
Sat, Oct 24, 2020
- Rejoining the global fight against climate change: In the U.S.'s national interest by Richard Richels, Henry Jacoby & Gary Yohe, Climate Explained, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 23. 2020
- Peak Gas Is Coming to the U.S. Sooner Than Anyone Expected by Naureen Malik, Brian Eckhouse, Dave Merrill & Jeremy C.F. Lin, Bloomberg News, Oct 22, 2020
- State of the climate: 2020 on course to be warmest year on record by Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief, Oct 23, 2020
- A second Trump term would mean severe and irreversible changes in the climate by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 23, 2020
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 24 October, 2020
