2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #8

Posted on 25 February 2017 by John Hartz

Sun Feb 19, 2017

• EPA Nominee Pruitt Ordered to Produce Documents About Fossil Fuel Ties by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Feb 17, 2017
• Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions by Benji Jones, Mongabay, Feb 17, 2017
• Australia positioned to be renewable energy superpower, Comment by Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 18, 2017
• Superbugs, Climate Chaos Have Bill Gates and the UN Worried by Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg News, Feb 18, 2017
• Analysis: How important is Moorside new nuclear plant to UK climate plans? by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Feb 15. 2017
• Are fossil fuel companies telling investors enough about the risks of climate change? by Paul Griffin & Amy Myers Jaffe, The Conversation US, Feb 15, 2017
• ‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston by Chris Mooney, energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 19, 2017
• ‘Excessive rainfall,’ flooding threatens Central and Northern California by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Feb 19, 2017

Mon Feb 20, 2017

• Images of new bleaching on Great Barrier Reef heighten fears of coral death by Elle Hunt, Guardian, Feb 19, 2017
• Experts paint a dire portrait of climate change’s public health impacts, but leave a little room for hope. by Peter Dykstra, The Daily Climate, Feb 16, 2017
• Europe Pushes Ahead with Controversial Canadian Trade Deal, Opens Door for Tar Sands by Christine Ottery, DeSmog UK, Feb 15, 2017
• A Government Website for Kids Scrubbed Its Climate Warnings by Patrick G Lee, Pro Publica/The Atlantic, Feb 17, 2017
• Researcher’s 1979 Arctic Model Predicted Current Sea Ice Demise, Holds Lessons for Future by Sabrina Shankman, Inside Climate News, Feb 20, 2017
• Atmospheric River Brings Historic Flood Risk to California by Eric Holthaus, Pacific Standard, Feb 20, 2017
• Trump to roll back Obama’s climate, water rules through executive action by Juliet Elperin and Steven Munson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 20, 2017
• Expect to see more emergencies like Oroville Dam in a hotter world by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus – the 97%, Guardian, Feb 20, 2017

Tue Feb 21, 2017

• As Arctic warms, Canada’s glaciers playing major role in sea level rise by Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News, Feb 20, 2017
• Swiss ski resorts could see 70% drop in snow cover as climate warms  by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 16, 2017
• Fears Grow That Climate Conflicts Could Lead to War by Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg News, Feb 19, 2017
• How an Interoffice Spat Erupted Into a Climate-Change Furor by Hiroko Tabuchi, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Feb 20, 2017
• Singapore Plans Southeast Asia’s First Carbon Tax From 2019 by Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg News, Feb 20, 2017
• Scientists Got a New Look at the Growing Larsen C Crack by Brian Kahn, ClimateCentral, Feb 21, 2017
• El Niño Could Return During the 2017 Hurricane Season by Jonathan Belles, Wunderblog, WeatherUnderground, Feb 20, 2017
• Aerosol study to look at great unknown in climate science by Calla Wahlquist, Guardian, Feb 21, 2017

Wed Feb 22, 2017

• Trump’s potential science adviser William Happer: hanging around with conspiracy theorists by Graham Readfearn, Planet Oz, Guardian, Feb 20, 2017
• Brazil races against time to save drought-hit city, dying crops by Anthony Boadle, Reuters, Feb 17, 2017
• Scott Pruitt Laid Out A Vision For The EPA That Contradicts Its Mission by Eric Mack, Forbes, Feb 21, 2017
• The Paris Agreement is bigger than Trump … isn’t it by John Sutter, CNN, Feb 22, 2017
• Trump can save his presidency with a great deal to save the climate by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus – the 97%, Guardian, Feb 22, 2017
• Levee system battered by record rainfall from ‘atmospheric river’ by Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, Feb 21, 2017
• Climate scientists face harassment, threats and fears of ‘McCarthyist attacks’ by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Feb 22, 2017
• In the Face of a Trump Environmental Rollback, California Stands in Defiance by Jacques Leslie, Yale Environment 360, Feb 21, 2017

Thu Feb 23, 2017

• In-depth: The whole system costs of renewables by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Feb 22, 2017
• Thousands of emails detail EPA head’s close ties to fossil fuel industry by Brady Dennis & Steve Mufson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 22, 2017
• Oil Industry, in Court, Claims Ignorance about CO2 by Benjamin Hulac, E&E News/Scientific American, Feb 21, 2017
• Researchers Warn UK Must Increase Power System Flexibility by Joshua Hill, CleanTechnica, Feb 22, 2017
• A huge Antarctic glacier just lost another chunk of ice — and we know because of NASA by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Feb 22, 2017
• Deep sea life faces dark future due to warming and food shortage by Nicola Davis, Guardian, Feb 23, 2017
• The great Greenland meltdown by Eli Kintisch, Sience (AAAS), Feb 23, 2017
• In hot water: Climate change harms hot spots of ocean life by Seth Borenstein, AP Big Story, Feb 22, 2017

Fri Feb 24, 2017

• Stanford researcher examines moral significance of actions causing climate change by Alex Shashkevich, Stanford News, Feb 23, 2017
• Updated: Major U.S. science groups endorse March for Science by Lindzi Wessel, Science (AAAS), Feb 23, 2017
• Can Australia’s wicked heat wave convince climate change deniers? by Melanie Hall, Deutsch Welle (DW), Feb 22, 2017
• Flotilla of tiny satellites will photograph the entire Earth every day by Mark Strauss, Science (AAAS), Feb 23, 2017
• Why Trump’s EPA is far more vulnerable to attack than Reagan’s or Bush’s by Walter Rosenbaum, The Conversation US, Feb 23, 2017
• As Coral Reefs Continue to Struggle in Warming Oceans, a Group Forms to Save Them by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Feb 24, 2017
• OMG measurements of Greenland give us a glimpse of future sea rise by John Abraham, Climate Consensus – the 97%, Guardian, Feb 24, 2017
• Stark warning on Atlantic cooling by Alex Kirby, Climate News Network, Feb 24, 2017

Sat Feb 25, 2017

• The EU’s renewable energy policy is making global warming worse by Michael LePage, New Scientist, Feb 23, 2017
• How electric utilities could revive their sagging fortunes and decarbonize the country by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Feb 22, 2017
• Before Becoming Trump’s Top Energy Aide, Mike Catanzaro Peddled Climate Change Denial as a Writer by Steve Horn, DeSmog, Feb 23, 2017
• Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back by Hiroko Tabuchi & Claire Rigby, New York Times, Feb 24, 2017
• Newest Trump Executive Order Pushes His Anti-Regulatory Agenda Further by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Feb 24, 2017
• Study: Global warming is drying up the Colorado River — vital to 40 million people by Dan Elliott, AP/Denver Post, Feb 24, 2017
• Marine ‘hotspots’ under dual threat from climate change and fishing by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Feb 22, 2017
• This is What 4 Million Solar Panels Look Like From Space by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Feb 22, 2017