2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #03
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 12, 2025 thru Sat, January 18, 2025.
This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Change Impacts
- Los Angeles burns: What you need to know This is terrible. This is climate change. by Andrew Dessler, The Climate Brink, Jan 13, 2025
- How Two Words from a 24-Year-Old Pasadena Climate Specialist Saved Hundreds of Lives Edgar McGregor’s timely Eaton Fire alert: ‘Get out!’ by Phil Hopkins, Local News Pasadena, Jan 11, 2025
- The Los Angeles fires won’t affect climate denial. They should. The disastrous California wildfires are another undeniable sign of the dangers of climate change. by Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, Jan 12, 2025
- Will 2025 be the Hottest Year Ever Recorded? by Adam Levy, ClimateAdam on Youtube, Jan 13, 2025
- `Multi-year` droughts have become more frequent, drier and hotter over past 40 years Droughts spanning multiple years have become drier, hotter and more frequent over the past 40 years, according to new research. by Yanine Quiroz, Carbon Brief, Jan 16, 2025
- The media needs to show how the climate crisis is fueling the LA wildfires With few exceptions, the news has shied away from showing how the unfolding climate crisis plays a large role in the disaster by Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, The Guardian, Jan 16, 2025
- Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2 Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Jan 17, 2025
- Los Angeles Fires Were Fueled by Climate Change Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area. But the evidence is clear that climate change contributed by Andrea Thompson , Scientific American Content: Global, Jan 17, 2025
Climate education and communication
Climate law and justice
Climate Policy and Politics
- The Observer view: With Hollywood ablaze, ditching carbon targets would be an act of recklessness | Observer editorial Legislation aimed at limiting the US’s role in global warming is likely to be an early target of Donald Trump by Observer editorial, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2025
- As the world burns, young Australians are feeling disbelief - and looking for answers | Anjali Sharma My generation feels trapped in a political system not built for us. Why wouldn’t we be disillusioned? by Anjali Sharma, The Guardian, Jan 13, 2025
- New Report Exposes Toyota`s Years-Long Effort to Fund Climate Deniers and Block Climate Action With its allies entering power in the White House and Congress, Toyota is poised to help dismantle climate policy that threatens its backward-looking business model by Newswire Editor, Common Dreams, Jan 14, 2025
Climate Science and Research
- Moving away from high-end emissions scenarios I have a new commentary in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes in current policy scenarios by Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink, Jan 15, 2025
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #3 2025 Skeptical Science's weekly survey of newly published climate research, including both academic papers and government/NGO reports. by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Jan 16, 2025
- From Wildfires to Courtrooms: How Attribution Science Fuels Climate Justice by Vishal Yashoda Manve, State of the Planet, Jan 17, 2025
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science
- Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group British arm of Heartland, which has taken oil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry by Helena Horton and Ben Quinn, The Guardian, Jan 15, 2025
- New Study Shows How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create a Climate Denial Echo Chamber on Social Media Research finds signs of “coordinated climate obstruction efforts” among oil, plastics, and agrichemical industries in social media messaging. by Sharon Kelly, DeSmog, Jan 15, 2025
- Study finds climate misinformation lurking in LinkedIn’s trusted environment Digital trust is a trojan horse. For years, LinkedIn has maintained its position as the most trusted digital platform globally. Yet this same trust may be its greatest vulnerability. When we feel safe, our defences drop. And misinformation thrives in these unguarded moments. by Ira Pragnya Senapati, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Jan 14, 2025
- Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse by Jill Hopke, The COnversation, Jan 17, 2025
- Fact brief - Can CO2 be ignored because it`s just a trace gas? by Sue Bin Park, Skeptical Science, Jan 18, 2025
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions
Miscellaneous (Other)
- ‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says Climate campaigners are calling for wealth taxes on the top 1 per cent to limit their pollution and pay for damages. by Lottie Limb, Euronews, Jan 10, 2025
- Nobody`s insurance rates are safe from climate change Even if you haven’t suffered direct damage, you’re paying for increasingly extreme weather. by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 14, 2025
- 7 Climate Experts on What We Can Still Do to Fight Climate Change by Renée Cho, State of the Planet, Jan 15, 2025
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Posted by BaerbelW on Sunday, 19 January, 2025
