2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #15

Sun Apr 3

• 9 Times Bill Nye Blew Our Minds With Climate Change Knowledge by The Climate Reality Project, EcoWatch, Apr 1, 2016
• Climate Change Worsening Colorado River Droughts by John Upton, Climate Central, Apr 1, 2016
• Climate Catastrophe, Coming Even Sooner? by Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, Mar 31, 2016
• The Wall Street Journal, Climate Change Denial, and the Galileo Gambit by Michael E Mann, Huffington Post, Mar 28, 2016
• Massive deforestation found in Brazil's Cerrado, (e) Science News, Apr 1, 2016
• Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change) by Marty Kaplan, Huffington Post Media, Apr 1, 2016
• Even in a Warming World, It Will Still Snow Somewhere by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Apr 2, 2016
• How do scientists know how hot it will be in 100 years?, Climate Reality Project, Apr 1, 2016

Mon Apr 4

• It’s Hazy, but China’s Carbon Emissions May Have Peaked by Edward Wong, New York Tiems, Apr 3, 2016
• Carmichael coal mine: Mining leases approved for $21 billion project in Queensland's Galilee Basin, ABC News, Apr 3, 2016
• Decision on coal mine 'defies reason' by Tim Elliott, Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 4, 2016
• The similarities between Trump support and climate denial by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Apr 4, 2016
• The WSJ’s Long Record of Protecting Polluters by U.S. Sen Shelton Whitehouse, Huffington Post, April 3, 2016
• Another $1.2 Billion Substation? No Thanks, Says Utility, We'll Find a Better Way by Jan Ellen Spiegel, InsideClimate News, Apr 4, 2016
• Green and Indigenous groups furious over Queensland's Carmichael coalmine lease approval, Australian AP/Guardian, Apr 3, 2016
• Climate change puts trillions of dollars of financial assets at risk: study by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Apr 4, 2016

Tue Apr 5

• A Student of ‘Cultural Environmentalism’ Explores the Many Views of Earth’s Anthropocene ‘Age of Us’ by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, Apr 3, 2016
• White House: Climate Change Poses Urgent Health Risk by Bobby Magill, Climate Central, Apr 4, 2016
• New web portal shines beacon on rising seas, NASA Global Climate Change, Apr 4, 2016
• Don Beyer says 97 percent of scientists believe humans contribute to global warming by Sean Gorman, PolitiFact Virginia/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Apr 4, 2016
• Tony Abbott's harmful legacy lives on in climate silence by Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 5, 2016
  
• How to keep caring when it’s ‘staggeringly too late’ to stop climate change by Ariel Zirulnick, The New Tropic, Apr 4, 2016
• Massive carbon capture investment 'needed to slow global warming' by Fiona Harvey & Kylie Noble, Guardian, Apr 4, 2016
• Smithsonian Gives Nod to More 'Dark Money' Funding for Willie Soon by David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, Apr 5, 2016

Wed Apr 6

• The 35 countries cutting the link between economic growth and emissions, Carbon Brief, Apr 5, 2015
• Scientists sound West Coast global warming alarm by Diane Dietz, The Register-Guard, Apr 4, 2016
• Constructively dealing with trolls in science communication by Aaron Huertas, Science Communications Media, Apr 3, 2016
• Bureau of Meteorology plan to take over CSIRO climate change research by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 5, 2016
• New climate study is frenemy of climate science driven policy, Greg Laden's Blog, Apr 6, 2016
• CSIRO cuts were about taking focus off 'public-good research', emails show by Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Apr 5, 2016
• Record patch of warm waters point to more global heat records being smashed by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 5, 2016
• Why Evangelicals — Yes, Evangelicals — Are Rallying For Action On Climate Change In North Carolina by Jack Jenkins, Climate Progress, Apr 5, 2016

Thu Apr 7

• This summer’s sea temperatures were the hottest on record for Australia: here’s why by Elaine Miles, Claire Spillman, David Jones &amp David Walland, The Conversation AU, Apr 5, 2016
• Hundreds of coal plants are still being planned worldwide — enough to cook the planet by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Apr 5, 2016
• Groups want forests to help mitigate the climate damage from your next flight by Mike Gaworecki, Mongabay, Apr 6, 2016
• Fossil fuel electricity with no pollution? This company is building a power plant to prove it. by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Apr 5, 2016
• Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes? by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Apr 7, 2016
• Climate Models May Overstate Clouds’ Cooling Power, Research Says by John Schwartz, New York Times, Apr 7, 2016
• Should the World Ditch the 2-Degree Celsius Target? by Umair Irfan, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Apr 6, 2016
• How Obama's reforms of federal coal leasing could cut carbon pollution by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Apr 5, 2016

Fri Apr 8

• Tesla’s Model 3 orders are through the roof. Here’s what that means for the planet. by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Apr 6, 2016
• One Fact About Climate Change That’s Worth Repeating by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Apr 6, 2016
• Here’s everything we know about how to talk about climate change by Amelia Urry, Grist, Apr 7, 2016
• Sixty world leaders to attend UN climate signing in New York on April 22 by Alister Doyle, Reuters, Apr 6, 2016
• Sea sends early warning of heatwaves by Tim Radford, Climate News Network, Apr 8, 2016
• Analysis: the ‘highly unusual’ behaviour of Arctic sea ice in 2016 by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Apr 7, 2016
• Trying to Put a Price on Big Oil's 'Climate Obstruction' Efforts by Eric Roston, Bloomberg News, Apr 7, 2016
• Greenland and Antarctic melting isn’t just raising seas — it’s changing the Earth’s rotation by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Apr 8, 2016
• NASA Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth by Carol Rasmussen, NASA Earth Science News Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Apr 8, 2016

Sat Apr 9

• Treating Soil A Little Differently Could Help It Store A Huge Amount Of Carbon by Natasha Geiling, Climate Progress, Apr 7. 2016
• World Bank ramps up help for poor to adapt to climate change by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Apr 8. 2016
• Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua by José Adán Silva, Inter Press Service (IPS). Apr 5, 2016
• The North Atlantic Blob: A Marine Cold Wave That Won’t Go Away by Bob Henson, Wunderblog, Weather Unerground, Apr 8, 2016
• Think Tank With Fossil-Fuel Ties Subpoenaed in AG's Climate Inquiry by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Apr 8, 2016
• Humans an Invasive Species Heading for a 'Crash,' Study Says by Nika Knight, Common Dreams, Apr 8, 2016
• Will La Niña Follow One of the Strongest Ever El Niños? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Apr 8, 2016
• Federal judge in Eugene says court should not dismiss youths’ climate change lawsuit by Jack Moran, The Register-Guard, Apr 9, 2016