2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #37

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

Sun Sep 3, 2016

U.S. and China Ratify Paris Agreement, Upping Pressure on Other Nations by John H Cushman Jr. InsideClimate News, Sep 3, 2016
Melting Glaciers Are Wreaking Havoc on Earth’s Crust by Jenny Chen, Smithsonian, Sep 1, 2016
Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Sep 3, 2016
A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere by Patrick Lynch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sep 2, 2016
Trump Tests Climate Change Denial Against Public Opinion, Real-World Impacts by Greg Dotson & Erin Auel, Think Progress, Sep 2, 2016
Hurricane Season Is Heating Up. So Is the Planet. Coincidence? by John Schwartz, New York Times, Sep 2, 2016
Dakota Pipeline Was Approved by Army Corps Over Objections of Three Federal Agencies by Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, Aug 30, 2016
Lawmakers approve new climate plans to help California's disadvantaged communities by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, Aug 31, 2016

Mon Sep 5, 2016

Energy disruption: Solar plus storage to be cheaper than grid in 2017 by Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy, Aug 31, 2016
Majority support green groups using 'lawfare' to challenge mining ventures: poll by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 4, 2016
We Haven’t Seen Many Storms Like Hermine by Eric Holthaus, FiveThirtyEight, Sep 3, 2016
Paris climate deal: where US and China have led, others must quickly follow by Fiona Harvey, Guardian, Sep 3, 2016
Where do the 10 UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change? by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Sep 1, 2016
Climate Impacts: Melting Glaciers, Shifting Biomes and Dying Trees in US National Parks by Patrick Gonzalez (National Park Service), DeSmog, Sep 5, 2015
Untrue and dangerous': Climate Change Authority board at war over own advice by Adam Morton, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 5, 2016
Climate change threatens to double malaria risk from African dams, say researchers by Magda Mis, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sep 5, 2016

Tue Sep 6, 2016

Electricity prices need to rise to tackle climate change by Clancy Yeats, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 5, 2016
Pressure grows on UK to ratify Paris climate change deal by Roger Harrabin, BBC News, Sep 5, 2016
Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation' by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Sep 5, 2016
Asian typhoons becoming more intense, study finds by Damien Carrington, Guardian, Sep 5, 2016
Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and polarization by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 6, 2016
How Climate Change Could Jam The World's Ocean Circulation by Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360, Sep 6, 2016
Rainforest destruction rises in the Brazilian Amazon by Rhett A Butler, Mongabay, Sep 3, 2016

Wed Sep 7, 2016

Endangered glaciers: Alpine ice begins Antarctic voyage by Victoria Gill, BBC News, Sep 5, 2016
For Lizards, Climate Change Is A Deadly — And Complex — Threat by Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, Sep 5, 2016
Asia needs $7.7 tn to meet climate change: Study, PTI/Economic Times, Sep 6, 2016
The ‘Father Of Biodiversity’ Fears Trump And Nuclear War More Than Climate Change by Chris D'Angelo, Huffington Post, Sep 5, 2016
Will ExxonMobil Have to Pay for Misleading the Public on Climate Change? by Paul Barrett & Matthew Philips, BloombergBusinessweek, Sep 7, 2016
The forecast for Lake Mead: Hot and dry with plenty of anxiety by William Yardley, Los Angeles Times, Sep 6, 2016
This is New York in the not-so-distant future by Andrew Rice, New York Magazine, Sep 7, 2016
New Catalyst Could Split Water Cheaply by Umair Irfan, ClimateWire/Scientific American, Sep 7, 2016

Thu Sep 8, 2016

We just had five 1,000-year floods in less than a year. What's going on? by Scott Weaver, Environmental Defense Fund, Sep 1, 2016
Here’s What China, U.S. Just Committed to on Climate by John Upton, Climate Central, Sep 6, 2016
The oceans are heating up. That's a big problem on a blue planet, Op-ed by Bill McKibben, Guardian, Sep 7, 2016
To Fight Clean Power Plan, Fossil Fuel Companies Paid for Private Meetings with Republican State Prosecutors by Ashley Braun, DeSmog, Sep 7, 2016
Analysis of Justin Gillis’ “Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun”, Climate Feedback, Sep 7, 2016
Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying' by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Mark Lander, & Coral Davenport, New York Times, Sep 8, 2016
Seeing the future of climate policy under the next president, PBS NewsHour, Sep 7, 2016
La Niña fizzles, making record warm global temperatures more likely by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Sep 8, 2016

Fri Sep 9, 2016

How likely is an existential catastrophe? by Phil Torres, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sep 7, 2016
Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record Global Warming by Joe Romm, Think Progress, Sep 7, 2016
The world has lost a tenth of all its wilderness in the past two decades by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Sep 8, 2016
Climate change doubled odds of Louisiana heavy rains, scientists warn by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Sep 7, 2016
U.S. forests are so full of dead trees that some want to burn them instead of coal by Chris Mooney, Washington Post, Energy & Environment, Sep 8, 2016
Amazon burns as Brazil signs Paris pledge by Jan Rocha, Climate News Network, Sep 9, 2016
Ecuador Begins Drilling Oil in a Pristine Corner of the Amazon by Jose Llangari, Reuters, Sep 7, 2016
California becomes a global laboratory in fight against climate change by Chris Megerian & Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, Sep 8, 2016

Sat Sep 10, 2016

Japan sees 70 pct chance of La Nina continuing through winter by Osamu Tsukimori, Reuters, Sep 9, 2016
How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2016 by Dr Ruth Mottram, Dr Peter Langen & Dr Martin Stendel, Carbon Brief, Sep 7, 2016
The Obama Administration Temporarily Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline by Robinson Meyer, Atlantic, Sep 9, 2016
Climate change and other human activities are affecting species migration by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Sep 8, 2016
Yes, Climate Change Does Kill People of Color More by Ashad Rehman, Newsweek, Sep 9, 2016
Intelligence Director on climate as “underlying meta-driver of unpredictable instability” by Caitlin Werrell & Francesco Femia, Climate & Security, Sep 9, 2016
Turkish coal plants in line for public subsidies by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Sep 6, 2016
When is the ‘peak’ of hurricane season? It’s more complicated than you think. by Brian McNoldy, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Sep 9, 2016

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 10 September, 2016

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