2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #10

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.

Sun Feb 28

In Exxon's Latest Annual Report, It's Business as Usual on Climate Change by David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News, Feb 26, 2016
The US Is Dumping an Insane Amount of Methane Into the Air by Tim McDonnell, Environment, Mother Jones, Feb 16, 2016
NASA sees a different kind of El Nino by Kate Ramsayer, Phys.org, Feb 25, 2016
The many signs of climate change in the far north by Ned Rozell, Alaska Science Forum, newsminer.com, Feb 28, 2016
EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Feb 28, 2016
Arctic warming: Why record-breaking melting is just the beginning by Geoffrey lean , Independent, Feb 27, 2016
Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts say by Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star, Feb 28, 2016
Why don't we treat climate change with the rigor we give to terror attacks? Op-ed by Ruth Greenspan Bell, Guardian, Feb 15, 2016

Mon Feb 29

Six burning questions for climate science to answer post-Paris by John Church, Alistair Hobday, Andrew Lenton & Steve Rintoul, The Conversation AU, Feb 29, 2016
7 smarter ways to talk about climate change by Amelia Urry, Grist, Feb 8, 2016
Our love-hate relationship with global warming by Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star, Feb 28, 2016
Planet on the Ballot, Op-ed by Pual Krugman, New York Times, Feb 29, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscars speech was about climate change, which could be worse than we thought by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 29, 2016
Global warming doubts spur push to block science standards by Jonathan Mattise, AP/Concord Monitor, Feb 27, 2016
Lord Lawson thinktank's report ignores everything we know about climate science by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
How Leonardo DiCaprio became one of the world's top climate change champions by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016

Tue Mar 1

Will Victoria's desalination plant need to get bigger? by Jason Dowling, The Age, Feb 28, 2016
Will Climate Change Boost Mosquito-Borne Disease? by Kieran Mulvaney, Discovery News, Feb 29, 2016
Scientists Protest Cuts and Commercialization at Australian Climate Center by Michelle Innes, New York Times, Feb 27, 2016
The Economist Takes a Strange Turn on Science by Tali Trigg, Plugged In, Scientific American, Feb 26, 2016
Are climate-change adaptations tied to protecting property or people? Study follows the money by Amina Kahn, Los Angeles Times, Feb 29, 2016
Warren Buffett Delivers Cold-Blooded View of Global Warming to Shareholders by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Feb 29, 2016
“The Old Normal Is Gone”: February Shatters Global Temperature Records by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, March 1, 2016
The Crucial Point Warren Buffett Does Not Understand About Climate Risk by Joe Romm, Climate Progress, Mar 1, 2016

Wed Mar 2

Trudeau, Canadian provinces set for tough climate change talks by David Ljunggren, Reuters, Feb 29, 2016
Canada's Climate Confab: Expect Plenty of Hot Air and Hypocrisy by Bill Tieleman, TheTyee.ca. Mar 1, 2016
Does a Carbon Tax Work? Ask British Columbia by Eduardo Porter, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Mar 1, 2016
Flood Damage Costs Will Rise Faster Than Sea Levels, Study Says by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Mar 1, 2016
Across Canada and World, Climate Movement Prepares for Leap into 2016 by Deidre Fulton, Common Dreams, Feb 28, 2016
Climate scientists worry about the costs of sea level rise by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Mar 2, 2016
Leo Wins Oscar But Can He Win The Public Over Climate Change? by Lisa Bailey, Ri Aus, Mar 2, 2016
Here's What Super Tuesday Voters Think About Climate Change by Jeremy Schulman, Environment, Mother Jones, Mar 1, 2016
Huge divide in spending on climate change adaptation across world’s megacities by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Feb 29, 2016

Thu Mar 3

Elizabeth May calls on Trudeau to keep oil sands crude in the ground by Elizabeth McSheffrey, Tar Sands Reporting Project, National Observer, Mar 2 2016
"Energy Apartheid" Could Develop Soon by Umair Irfan, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Mar 2, 2016
Green Climate Fund needs more staff to meet targets - director by Megan Rowling & Alister Doyle, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mar 2, 2016
Food scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050, study suggests by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 29, 2016
Ted Cruz's favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
How should we teach students about climate change? by John Cook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Mar 3, 2016
Oil and gas industry has pumped millions into Republican campaigns by Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian, Mar 3, 2016
Scientists just found a surprising factor that’s speeding up Greenland’s melt by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Mar 3, 2016
Is Worry Worthwhile in Confronting Climate Change? by Andrew C Revkin, Dot Earth, New York Times, Mar 3, 2016

Fri Mar 4

World's biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Feb 29, 2016
Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years, AFP, Arab News, Mar 2, 2016
Drought in eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years by Ellen Gray, Global Climate Change, NASA, March 1, 2016
Trudeau, Obama set to endorse continental strategy on climate change by Robert Fife, The Globe & Mail, Mar 1, 2016
Why we need to stop fake claims that global warming paused by Michael Mann, New Scientist, Mar 3, 2016
Why is 2016 smashing heat records? by Karl Mathiesen, Guardian, Mar 4, 2016
Our Hemisphere’s Temperature Just Reached a Terrifying Milestone by Eric Holthaus, Future Tense, Slate, Mar 3, 2016
Rising Seas Pull Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Building Boomtown, Toward a Bust by Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News, Mar 3, 2016

Sat Mar 5

Canada PM, provinces set outlines of carbon pricing deal by Julie Gordon, Reuters, Mar 3, 2016
California Gas Leak Threatens Jerry Brown’s Image as a Climate Change Hero by Ian Lovett & Michael Wines, New York Times, Mar 4, 2016
When it comes to a shift to low-carbon energy, key players need a history lesson by Andrew Simms, Energy, Guardian, Mar 4, 2016
Florida mayors press presidential debate moderators for climate airtime by Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Mar 4, 2016
The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone by Bill McKibben, Boston Globe, Mar 5, 2016
Oregon becomes first state to pass law to completely eliminate coal-fired power by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Mar 3, 2016
The burning issue in climate change by Sylvia Thompson, Irish Times, Mar 5, 2016
Vancouver, Copenhagen, Helsinki mayors brainstorm on building greener cities by Elizabeth McSheffrey, National Observer, Mar 4, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 5 March, 2016

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