2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #4

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

Sun Jan 22, 2017

• Interactive: How much does El Niño affect global temperature? by Roz Pidcock, Carbon Brief, Jan 20, 2017
• What Did Confirmation Hearings Tell Us About Trump’s Priorities on Climate Change? by Andrew Light, World Resources Institute (WRI), Jan 20, 2017
• What happens if we ignore climate change? by Alistair Woodward, OUPblog, Oxford University Press, Jan 21, 2017
• As U.S. Cedes Leadership on Climate, Others Step Up at Davos by Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, Jan 21, 2017
• Wisconsin state agencies are deleting talk of human-caused climate change from their websites by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
• Climate change has big implications for farmers. Will Sonny Perdue get that? by Andee Erickson, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
• Climate Scientists Have An Urgent Message For Donald Trump by Ed Mazza, Huffington Post, Jan 20, 2017
• Fearing White House Purge Of Climate Science, Scientists Frantically Copying Data by James Conca, Forbes, Jan 22, 2017

Mon Jan 23, 2017

• Trump’s regulatory freeze halts four Obama rules aimed at promoting greater energy efficiency by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017
• Will President Obama’s clean energy legacy endure? by Mark Barteu, The Conversation US, Jan 19, 2017
• Fearing climate change databases may be threatened in Trump era, UCLA scientists work to protect them by Amina Kahn, Los Angeles Times, Jan 22, 2017
• Trump White House Distorts Wages Figure on First Day by John Upton, Climate Central, Jan 20, 2017
• We’re now breaking global temperature records once every three years by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 23, 2017
• With the Rise of Trump, Is It Game Over for the Climate Fight?, Opinion by Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360, Jan 23, 2017
• One of the last Obama-era climate reports had a troubling update about the rising seas by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 23, 2017
• Donald Trump is getting ready to hammer the EPA by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 23, 2017

Tue Jan 24, 2017

• Climate Regulations Under a Watchful Internet Eye by Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News, Jan 23, 2017
• Flood disasters more than double across Europe in 35 years by Arthur Neslen, Guardian, Jan 19, 2017
• CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health by Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 23, 2017
• We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years by John Vidal, Guardian, Jan 23, 2017
• Trump gives new life to Dakota Access, Keystone XL oil pipelines by Steven Mufson & Juliet Eilperin, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
• Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts by Andrew Revkin & Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, Jan 23, 2017
• Scientists link toxic algal blooms along U.S. West Coast to warm waters in the Pacific by Tom Di Liberto, NOAA's Climate.gov, Jan 23, 2017
• Resurrection of Keystone and DAPL cements America's climate antagonism by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Jan 24, 2017
• Trump’s Climate Stance Threatens to Worsen China Relations by Joe Ryan, Bloomberg News, Jan 24, 2017

Wed Jan 25, 2017

• Trump tries to pave the way for development by accelerating environmental reviews by Darryl Fears, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
• Intact Forest Landscapes Matter for Climate Change. Here Are 3 Reasons Why. by Nancy Harris, Samantha Gibbes & Peter Potapov, World Resources Institute (WRI), Jan 24, 2017
• The Fox Who Will Guard the Nation’s Henhouses (And Five Questions the Senate Should Ask Him) by Karen Perry Stillerman, Union of Concerned Scientists, Jan 24, 2017
• Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources by Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Jan 25, 2017
• Are scientists going to march on Washington? by Sarah Kaplan, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017
• EPA Scientists' Work May Face 'Case By Case' Review by Trump Team, Official Says by Nathan Rott, NPR, Jan 25, 2017
• Report: Trump Team Backtracks On Order To Remove EPA Climate Site by Caitlin MacNeal, TPM Livewire, Jan 25, 2017
• In a fiery speech, California Gov. Jerry Brown defends climate action and attacks ‘alternative facts’ by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 24, 2017

Thu Jan 26, 2017

• EPA science under scrutiny by Trump political staff by Michael Biesecker & Seth Borenstein, AP, Jan 25, 2017
• Silenced Federal Agencies Violating Their Own Policies by Brian Kahn, Climate Central, Jan 24, 2017
• Reported Trump Science Adviser Rejects Climate Science by Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Jan 25, 2017
• We may be closer than we thought to dangerous climate thresholds by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Jan 26, 2017
• Climate March to Descend on Washington in April by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Jan 25, 2017
• How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters by Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360. Jan 26, 2017
• America Can’t Afford to Be a Climate Loner by Andrew Light & David Waskow, World Resources Instittue (WRI), Jan 25, 2017
• Extreme weather on the rise in Europe by Hilke Fischer, Deutsche Welle (DW), Jan 26, 2017

Fri Jan 27, 2017

• The War on Facts Is a War on Democracy, Opnion by Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, Jan 25, 2017
• What the hell is going on at the EPA right now? by Brad Plumer, Energy & Environment, Vox, Jan 26. 2017
• The nation’s top scientists can’t get through to Trump — and they’re alarmed by Joel Achenbach, Speaking of Science, Washington Post, Jan 26, 2016 
• Irish lawmakers vote to divest from fossil fuels by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Jan 26, 2017
• Reports on climate change have disappeared from the State Department website by Chelsea Harvey, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Jan 26, 2017
• What can climate models tell us about impacts at 1.5C and 2C?, Guest post by Rachel James, Carbon Brief, Jan 25, 2017
• 21 kids are fighting Trump's attempts to delete federal climate websites by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Jan 27, 2017
• What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Dismantle Obama’s Climate Rules by Coral Davenport, New York Times, Jan 26, 2017

Sat Jan 28, 2017

• Climate Change Summit Scheduled to Replace One CDC Scrapped by Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Jan 27, 2017
• Here’s One Way Trump’s Team Could Manipulate Government Data by Ramin Skibba, Slate, Jan 26, 2017
• As Climate Change Accelerates, Floating Cities Look Like Less of a Pipe Dream by Mike Ives, New York Times, Feb 27, 2017
• Navigating Climate Change in America’s Heartland by Hiroku Tabuchi, Energy & Environment, New York Times, Jan 28, 2017
• War on Facts Sparks Momentum for Scientists' March on Washington by Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, Jan 25, 2017
• Scientists Increasingly Speak Out by Debra Kahn. Policy & Ethics, E&E News/Scientific Amreican, Jan 27, 2017
• Trump's Dirty Climate Plan Out-of-Step as Most Americans Want Renewables by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, Jan 23, 2017
• The Delusion of Alternative Facts by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, Illusion Chasers, Scientific American, Jan 27, 2017

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