2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #04

Posted on 28 January 2024 by BaerbelW

A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Jan 21, 2024 thru Sat, Jan 27, 2024.

Story of the week

Based on impressions and reactions, Melanie Trecek King’s article “Give Science Denial the FLICC” re-posted from her Thinking is Power website won the title of “Story of the week” hands down. It was the best-performing post on our Facebook page and by far the most often liked and reposted toot on Mastodon!

Links shared on social media

Published before January 21

• Science vs. social media: Why climate change denial still thrives online  Social media is still not doing enough to stop misinformation denying the existence and causes of climate change.  by Jessica Guynn, USA Today, Jan 19, 2023
• New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say by Matthew Green and Merel de Buck, DeSmog, Jan 18, 2024
• Six ways inequality holds back climate action by Emma Garnett & Charlotte A. Kukowski, The Conversation, Jan 15, 2024
• Will 2024 be the Hottest Year ever recorded?   by Adam Levy, ClimateAdam on Youtube, Jan 12, 2024
• SkS Weekly Climate Change    by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Jan 21, 2024
• A Slightly Hotter World Could Still Be a Better One   by Hannah Ritchie, Ideas, The Atlantic Magazine, Jan 17, 2024

Published January 21

• Megafires are increasing with climate change, could they also be contributing to it?   by Tyne Logan, ABC News, Jan 21, 2024
• It is time to draw down carbon dioxide but shut down moves to play God with the climate   by Tim Flannery, Environment & Energy, The Conversation AU, Jan 21, 2024
• How YouTube`s climate deniers turned into climate doomers   by Kate Yoder, Popular Science, Jan 21, 2024

Published January 22

• Ice age could help predict oceans’ response to global warming   by Tulane University press release, ScienceDaily, Jan 22, 2024
• Give Science Denial the FLICC   by Guest Author Melanie Trecek-King, Skeptical Science, Jan 22, 2024
• Why the war in Ukraine is bad for climate science   by Rebecca Hersher, Climate : NPR, Jan 22, 2024
• Scientists previously thought this corner of Antarctica was ‘immune’ from climate change – but now it’s losing ice   by Melissa Mackay, ABC News, Jan 22, 2024
• How Best to Educate People About Climate Change?   by Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School, Jan 22, 2024
• Prepare for a `Gray Swan` Climate   by Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, Jan 22, 2024
• Peer who praised rising temperatures appointed to climate crisis committee   by Ben Quinn, The Guardian, Jan 22, 2024

Published January 23

• At a glance – How will global warming affect polar bears?   by John Mason, Skeptical Science, Jan 23, 2024
• Congressman: DOJ Investigation of Big Oil Is Now   by Emily Sanders, DeSmog, Jan 23, 2023
• How Best to Educate People About Climate Change?   by Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School State of the Planet, Jan 23, 2024
• IPCC: Governments split on ‘accelerated’ climate reports for next UN global stocktakeby Robert McSweeny & Ayesha Tandon, IPCC, Carbon Brief, Jan 23, 2024

Published January 24

• Climate Concern Grows Nationwide, Even in Some Republican States   by Peter Behr, Scientific American, Jan 24, 2024
• A Historic and Devastating Drought in the Amazon Was Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say   by Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News, Jan 24, 2024
• Leading Climate Science Denial Group Registers Lowest Income for Seven Years  by Sam Bright, DeSmog, Jan 24, 2024
• What Makes Yale Climate Connections Stories Work?   by Cora Hagens, Natasha Feshbach, Mallika Talwar and Joshua Low, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Jan 24, 2024

Published January 25

• What are the odds that extreme weather will lead to a global food shock?  The insurance giant Lloyd’s evaluated the risks in a recent study.  by Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 25, 2024
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4 2024  Skeptical Science’s weekly climate research roundup, keeping you in touch with primary sources on what we know of our changing climate. by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Jan 25, 2024
• The propane industry is trying to dupe you  Documents and recordings obtained by HEATED detail a multi-million dollar plan to spin the fossil fuel as “clean” and “renewable” by Arielle Samuelson, HEATED, Jan 25, 2024
• More Americans than ever before believe climate change is really happening  A survey from Yale found growing acceptance of climate change even in Republican strongholds but slower movement around how to address it. by Denise Chow and Chase Cain, NBC News Top Stories, Jan 25, 2024
• A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming  For decades, scientists have debated the possibility that a vital ocean current system could plunge Europe into an abrupt cooldown. by Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, Jan 25, 2024
• Natural Hydrogen: A Potential Clean Energy Source Beneath Our Feet  As studies show far more natural hydrogen underground than believed, well-funded efforts to drill for the gas are underway around the globe. Boosters see a plentiful green replacement for fossil fuels, but skeptics say its large-scale use may not be practical or cost-effective. by Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360, Jan 25, 2024
• In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work  His family was devastated when bloggers seeking to discredit him compared him to a sexual predator, Mann told the court. by Diane Bernard, DeSmog, Jan 25, 2024
• Beware climate populism by Ákos Szeg?fi, Aeon, Jan 25, 2024

Published January 26

• Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive   by Jan Berndorff, Phys.org, Jan 26, 2024
• US government pauses new gas export terminals in ‘historic win’ for climate  The Biden administration is freezing approvals of new LNG export permits as climate considerations take centre stage. by Matteo Civillini, Energy, Climate Home News, Jan 26, 2024
• This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING  Here’s what Friends of the Earth Netherlands’ latest legal action could mean for global banks financing major polluters.  by Dana Drugmand, DeSmog, Jan 26, 2024

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