2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Oct 11, 2020 through Sat, Oct 17, 2020
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A FIELD GUIDE TOTHE ELECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The presidential election is just weeks away, and climate change has broken through as a defining issue for Americans this year, even amid a historic pandemic and deep economic uncertainty weighing upon the nation.
Two-thirds of Americans say the government isn’t doing enough to reduce the effects of global warming, according to a June survey from the Pew Research Center, and the two presidential candidates’ approaches couldn’t be further apart. President Trump has often dismissed global warming as a hoax; his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., calls climate change an “emergency” that requires rapidly overhauling the nation’s energy system.
Their differences raise profound questions about the government’s role in shaping the United States economy and America’s place on the world stage. Here’s a guide to major climate questions in the election.
Click here to access the entire article as originally published on The New York Times website.
A Field Guide to the Election and Climate Change by Brad Plumer, Climate, New York Times, Oct 14, 2020
Articles Linked to on Facebook
Sun, Oct 11, 2020
- October 2020 La Niña update by Emily Becker, ENS0 Blog, NOAA's Climate.gov, Oct 8, 2020
- What’s Green, Soggy and Fights Climate Change? by Henry Fountain, Climate & Environment, New York Times, Oct 9, 2020
- Having Rolled Back Obama’s Centerpiece Climate Plan, Trump Defends a Vastly More Limited Approach by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Oct 9, 2020
- Inside the climate battle quietly raging about US homes by Emily Holden, Climate Countdown, The Guardian, Oct 9, 2020
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
- How Joe Biden could reorient foreign policy around climate change by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 9, 2020
- Climate Change Could Cost Trillions of Dollars in Economic Damages by Jaia Clingham-David, Buzz, Our Green Planet, Oct 11, 2020
- Three Rockefellers Say Banks Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels, Opinion by Daniel Growald, Peter Gill Case & Valerie Rockefeller, New York Times, Oct 11, 2020
- A Biden victory could spur global climate action, but the US has much to prove by Chloé Farand, Climate Home News, Oct 12, 2020
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
- Climate change triggers doubling of disasters, threatens millions – UN, AFP/Reuters, Deutsche Welle (DW), Oct 12, 2020
- Campaign seeks 1bn people to save climate – one small step at a time by Fiona Harvey, Environment, The Guardian, Oct 10, 2020
- Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis by Christopher Flavelle, Climate & Environment, New York Times, Oct 12, 2020
- Hurricane Delta may be gone, but this destructive season isn’t over yet by Matthew Cappucci, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 12, 2020
Wed, Oct 14, 2020
- IEA outlines how world can reach net zero emissions by 2050 by Joe Lo, Energy, Climate Home News, Oct 13, 2020
- Top asset owners commit to big carbon emissions cuts by Kalyeena Makortoff, Environment, The Guardian, Oct 13, 2010
- Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA by Simon Evans & Josh Gabbatiss, Energy, Carbon Brief, Oct 13, 2020
- Warming has killed half the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, study finds. It might never recover. by Darryl Fears, Climate & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 13, 2020
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
- Earth has warmest September on record, and 2020 may clinch hottest year by Andrew Freedman, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 14, 2020
- Natural Disasters May Push Global Finances to the Brink by Corbin Hair, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 13, 2020
- How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption by Jag Bhalla & Eliza Barclay, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 12, 2020
- A Field Guide to the Election and Climate Change by Brad Plumer, Climate, New York Times, Oct 14, 2020
Fri, Oct 16, 2020
- Phoenix has hit 100 (F) degrees on record-breaking half of the days in 2020 by Ian Livingston, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 14, 2020
- The 2 best ways to hold companies to their climate commitments by Michael O'Leary & Warren Valdmanis, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 14, 2020
- Nearly Half of the U.S. Is in Drought. It May Get Worse. by Henry Fountain, Climate & Environment, New York Times, Oct 16, 2020
- Former Republican congressman says Murdoch's media outlets fuelling 'climate rejectionism' by Daniel Hurst, Environment, Guardian, Oct 14, 2020
Sat, Oct 17, 2020
- The Atlantic Daily: Why the Climate Story Is So Exciting Right Now by Meyer Robinson, Newsletters, The Atlantic Magazine, Oct 15, 2020
- ExxonMobil misled the public about the climate crisis. Now they're trying to silence critics. Opinion by Geoffrey Supran & Naomi Oreskes, Comment is Free, Guardian, Oct 16, 2020
- “COVID-19 is the pop quiz but climate change is the final exam”, Inteview of Lauren Kurtz by Maria Virginia Olano, Cooler Earth, ClimateXChange, Oct 15, 2020
- Vigorous action needed, and soon, on climate change by Henry Jacoby, Gary Yohe and Richard Richels, Climate Explained, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 16, 2020
Posted by John Hartz on Saturday, 17 October, 2020
