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2015 SkS Weekly Digest #5
Posted on 1 February 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
Climate researcher Bart Strengers wins wager with climate sceptic Hans Labohm, a guest post article by Bart Strengers drew the highnest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.
El Niño Watch
ENSO Alert System Status: El Niño Watch ENSO-neutral conditions continue.*
Positive equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies continue across most of the Pacific Ocean.
There is an approximately 50-60% chance of El Niño conditions during the next two months, with ENSO-neutral favored thereafter.*
* Note: These statements are updated once a month in association with the ENSO Diagnostics Discussion, which can be found by clicking here.
ENSO: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions, Update prepared by: Climate Prediction Center / NCEP 26 January 2015
Toon of the Week
Quote of the Week
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday she hoped Pope Francis' upcoming message to his flock on the environment would help galvanize concern about climate change and convince sceptics that "the science is real".
EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, visiting the Vatican to discuss climate change, said U.S. President Barack Obama shared the pope's belief that it was a moral issue because its effects would be felt most by the poorest and weakest nations.
"The pope knows his own beliefs and I want him to know that the president is aligned with him on these issues," she told reporters."He (Pope Francis) is really a pastoral influence and ... there are issues that we can and should face together."
U.S. EPA chief hopes pope will spur concern on climate change by Philip Pullella, Reuters, Jan 30, 2015
SkS in the News
The SkS Escalator grahpic is prominently displayed in Tom Chivers's Buzzfeed article, Why 2014 Was The Hottest Year Ever, But The Met Office Can’t Say So.
In his DeSmog Blog post, MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages, John Mashey directs readers to three SkS rebuttal articles:
- What does past climate change tell us about global warming?
- What evidence is there for the hockey stick?
- How does the Medieval Warm Period compare to current global temperatures?
SkS Spotlights
Coming Soon on SkS
- Cowtan and Way 2014: Hottest or not? (Kevin C)
- Republicans have one option to eliminate EPA carbon regulations (Dana)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #6A (John Hartz)
- Claims that climate models overestimate warming are "unfounded", study shows (Roz Pidcock)
- Guest post (John Abraham)
- Meeting two degree climate target means 80 per cent of world's coal is "unburnable", study says (Roz Pidcock)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #6A (John Hartz)
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #6 (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
H/t to Bernie Sanders photo
SkS Week in Review
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #5C by John Hartz
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #5B by John Hartz
- Water is far more valuable and useful than oil by Stephen Leahy
- New research reveals extreme oxygen loss in oceans during past climate change by Srah Moffitt
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #5A by John Hartz
- Climate researcher Bart Strengers wins wager with climate sceptic Hans Labohm by Bart Strengers
- Kevin Cowtan Debunks Christopher Booker's Temperature Conspiracy Theory by Kevin Cowtan
- Climate change could impact the poor much more than previously thought by Dana
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #4 by John Hartz
Media Matters Posts about Environment & Science
- CBS Whitewashes Big Oil And Food Companies' Profit Motive For Opposing Renewable Fuel Standard, Jan 30, 2015
- PBS Sets The Standard For Nightly Climate Coverage by Kevin Kalhoefer, Jan 30, 2015
- Limbaugh Criticizes Mitt Romney For Announcing That He Believes Climate Change Is Man-Made, Jan 29, 2015
- Too Little, Too Much, Or Just Right: To Conservative Media, Any Amount Of Snow Debunks Climate Change by Kevin Kalhoefer and Denise Robbins, Jan 29, 2015
- Senator Schatz Calls For Better Climate Coverage On Broadcast Networks by Denise Robbins, Jan 28, 2015
- STUDY: How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2014 by Kevin Kalhoefer, Jan 28, 2015
- Limbaugh: It's Getting To The Point Where You Have To Talk About Selma, Hurricane Katrina With "A Tinge Of Sadness" Jan 27, 2015
- Yellowstone Oil Spill Missing from Keystone XL Coverage On CNN, Fox by Denise Robbins, Jan 26, 2015
- Memo To The Media: GOP-Led Seliate Is Still Denying Climate Science by Andrew Seifert, Jan 23, 2015
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