2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #3

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

Sun Jan 15, 2017

Are the billionaire American Koch brothers playing climate politics in Alberta? by Elizabeth McSheffry, Race Against Climate Change, National Observer, Jan 13, 2017
Wyoming Bill Would All But Outlaw Clean Energy by Preventing Utilities From Using It by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Jan 13, 2017
Guest post: Coal price surge will not stop China’s drive to reduce emissions by Wu Lixin, Carbon Brief, Jan 11, 2017
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators by Eric Lipton & Coral Davenport, New York Times, Jan 14, 2017
Davos Elite Focus on Climate Change, Ignoring Trump’s Skepticism by Javier Blas & Jeff Shankleman, Bloomberg News, Jan 14. 2017
U.S. EPA locks in 2025 fuel efficiency rules by David Shepardson, Reuters, Jan 13, 2017
Climate change: 90% of rural Australians say their lives are already affected by Calla Wahlquist, Guardian, Jan 15, 2017
Leading scientists urge May to pressure Trump over climate change by Ian Sample, Guardian, Jan 15, 2017

Mon Jan 16, 2017

Beginning of the End of CA Drought, But What’s Next? by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 13, 2017
Businesses and investors renew plea to Trump: don't ignore climate change by Carol J Clouse, Guardian, Jan 10, 2017
Prediction of Climate Change Impacts Not as "Limited" as Tillerson Suggests by Vanessa Schipani, SciCheck/Scientific American, Jan 13, 2017
White House Urges Research on Geoengineering to Combat Global Warming by Henry Fountain, Science, New York Times, Jan 10, 2017
2016 Global Temperature Sets New Distraction Record by Mark Boslough, Huffington Post US, Jan 16, 2017
Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept Any ‘Social Cost of Carbon’? by Andrew Revkin, ProPublica, Jan 11, 2017
New studies show Rex Tillerson is wrong about climate risks by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 16, 2016
Why a Canadian teen joined American youth in suing U.S. over climate change by Kim Brunhuber, CBC News, Jan 16, 2017

Tue Jan 17, 2017

We need a Ladybird book of climate change deniers by Patrick Barkham, Guardian, Jan 16, 2017
Ice crack to put UK Antarctic base in shut-down by Jonathan Amos, Science & Environment, BBC News, Jan 16, 2017
Bipartisan EPA Alumni Urge Senate to Reject Pruitt's "Troubling" Nomination by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, Jan 16, 2017
The NASA data conspiracy theory and the cold sun by Stefan Rahmstorf, Real Climate, Jan 16, 2017
At Scott Pruitt’s Confirmation Hearing, Science Will Be on Trial by Abby Rabinowitz, New Republic, Jan 16, 2017
Parts of United States are heating faster than globe as a whole by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 17, 2016
Days before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 17, 2017
Video: NASA’s Dr Gavin Schmidt on 2016 as the hottest year on record by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Jan 16, 2017

Wed Jan 18, 2017

Joint Statements on Climate Change from National Academies of Science Around the World by Peter Gleick, Significant Figures by Peter Gleick, ScienceBlogs, Jan 7, 2017
Australia should invest in coal power to red5uce emissions, minister says by Michael Slezak, Guardian, Jan 16, 2017
POLL-Unlike Trump, Americans want strong environmental regulator -Reuters/Ipsos by Chris Kahn, Reuters, Jan 17, 2017
A Swarm of 30 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Socked the Planet in 2016 by Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Wunderblog, Weather Underground, Jan 17, 2017
2016 Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 18, 2017
How 2016 Became Earth’s Hottest Year on Record by Jugal K Patel, New York Times, Jan 18, 2017
How Far Can Technology Go To Stave Off Climate Change? by David Biello, Yale Environment 360, Jan 18, 2017
I've Served Under Many Republican EPA Administrators. Here's Why Scott Pruitt Is Wrong For This Job. by Diana Regas, Forbes, Jan 17, 2017

Thu Jan 19, 2017

Dramatic decrease in ‘mild’ weather for tropical countries by 2100 by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Jan 18, 2017
The Temperature Spiral, Now With 2016’s Record Heat by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 18, 2017
Scientists react to Earth’s warmest year: ‘We are heading into a new unknown’ by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Jan 18, 2017
Melbourne's trams to be solar powered by Benjamin Preiss, The Age, Jan 19, 2017
A cat in hell’s chance’ – why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2C by Andrew Simms, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
Record Number of Americans “Very Worried” About Global Warming, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, Jan 18, 2017
On global warming, Trump nominees try having it both ways by Zack Colman & Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor, Jan 19, 2017
A New Special Relationship for America and Britain Emerges with Climate Science Deniers Linked to Trump and Brexit by Kyla Mandel, DeSmog UK, Jan 16, 2017

Fri Jan 20, 2017

Global warming could cause sea levels to rise higher than the height of a three-storey building, study suggests by Ian Johnston, The Independent, Jan 19, 2017
Climate change will affect all of us. So why the lack of urgency? by Polly Toynbee, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump by Zoë Schlanger, Wired, Jan 19, 2017
All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website by Jason Koebler, Motherboard, Jan 20, 2017
What to Expect—and Ways to Respond—as the Trump Administration Assumes Power by Mark Halpern, Union of Concerned Scientists, Jan 19, 2017
There's a serious danger to the soft climate denial pedaled by Trump's cabinet picks, Analysis by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Jan 19, 2017
Trump Day 1: Global Warming's Fate by Annie Sneed, Scientific American, Jan 20, 2017

Sat Jan 21, 2017

Al Gore's Inconvenient Sequel to open Sundance in acutely political year by Andrew Pulver, Guardian, Jan 18, 2017
How unusual is 2016's record-temperature three-peat, and will the hot streak continue in 2017? by Jessica Blunden, NOAA's Climate.gov, Jan 19, 2017
Miami-Dade’s GOP mayor on sea-level rise: ‘It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. We live it every day by Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, Jan 18, 2017
‘The Last Frontiers of Wilderness’: Intact Forest Plummets Around the World by John C Cannon, Pacific Standard, Jan 19, 2017
Two scientists' concerns over years of climate inaction by Daniel Grossman & Bud Ward, Yale Climate Communications, Jan 21, 2017
High temperatures to hit staple crops in the US this century, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Jan 19, 2017
Warm Air Invades Arctic Again, Slowing Sea Ice Growth by Andrea Thompson, Climate Central, Jan 19, 2017
Bangladesh struggles to turn the tide on climate change as sea levels rise by Karen McVeigh, Guardian, Jan 20, 2017

Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 21 January, 2017

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