2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #47

Story of the week

This week, we again asked Gemini to create a topical summary of the articles we shared during the week. Based on feedback kindly provided in comments to last week's edition - thanks a lot for that! - we have now updated our Google form used to collect the articles with a new drop-down list from which (for now) one item can be picked which will eventually be used to generate a list based on topic instead of date.

Major Climate Change Impacts:

• Extreme Weather Events: Increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves, hurricanes, typhoons, and other extreme weather events due to climate change. (The Guardian, Yale Climate Connections, Carbon Brief, CNN)
• Climate Change and Health: Rising temperatures contributing to the spread of diseases, foodborne illnesses, and other health risks. (NBC News, Yale Climate Connections, Inside Climate News)
• Ocean Warming: Impact of ocean warming on hurricanes and marine ecosystems. (Yale Climate Connections)

Climate Policy and Diplomacy:

• Climate Negotiations: Challenges and setbacks at COP29, including the 1.5C target and adaptation funding. (The Guardian, Inside Climate News, Climate Home News)
• Climate Disinformation: The role of misinformation and disinformation in hindering climate action. (The Verge, Inside Climate News, The Guardian)
• Fossil Fuel Influence: Continued influence of the fossil fuel industry on climate policy and negotiations. (Inside Climate News)

Climate Science and Research:

• Climate Attribution Science: Advances in understanding the link between climate change and extreme weather events. (The Guardian, Carbon Brief)
• Climate Modeling and Projections: Future climate scenarios and their implications. (RealClimate)

Climate Solutions: Potential solutions, such as renewable energy, carbon capture, and adaptation measures. (New York Times, The Guardian)

Stories we promoted this week, by publication date:

Before November 17

• Trump promise to repeal Biden climate policies could cost US billions, report finds, Environment, The Guardin, oliver Milman. "Trump could stop in its tracks US’s emergence as clean energy superpower and forfeit billions in investment"
• With dengue cases at an extreme high, research points to climate change's role, Health, NBC News, Randi Richardson. "Rising temperatures are responsible for nearly a fifth of the world’s dengue burden, according to the new findings — a share that's expected to keep rising."
• Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star., Climate, New York Times, Brad Plumer. "Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead."
• The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future, Fossil Fuels, Phil McKenna. "A U.N. summit calling for fast action on methane may be undermined by a second Trump administration as voluntary efforts fail to curb emissions globally."
• Category 5 Super Typhoon Man-yi hits the Philippines, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters & Bob Henson. "The island nation endures its fourth typhoon in less than two weeks, while Tropical Storm Sara rakes Honduras."

November 17

• 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46, Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom & John Hartz. A listing of 33 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 10, 2024 thru Sat, November 16, 2024.
• Operationalizing Climate Science, RealClimate, Gavin Schmidt. There is a need to make climate science more agile and more responsive, and that means moving (some of it) from research to operations.

November 18

• Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal, Environment, The Guardian, damian Carrington. "Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity"
• Q&A: The evolving science of `extreme weather attribution`, Carbon Brief, Ayesha Tandon. As global temperatures rise, extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent all around the world.
• New Calls for Reform Emerge as COP29 Negotiations Struggle, Politics, Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn. "A former UNFCCC chief and others say streamlined and more frequent science-based meetings are needed to address the escalating climate crisis."
• World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say, Environment, the Guardian, Oliver Milman. "Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku"
• Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world 18 November 2024, Carbon Brief, Robert McSweeney & Ayesha Tandon.

November 19

• Climate change is spoiling food faster, making hundreds of millions of people sick around the world, Health, Yale Climate Connections, Sanket Jain. "The World Health Organization estimates 600 million people a year already suffer from foodborne illnesses."
• The Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Exert Undue Influence Over COP29, Activists Say, Fossil Fuels, Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn. "High-emitting developed countries prevented the UNFCCC from adopting conflict-of-interest guidelines for the annual climate talks from the very beginning."
• Brazil leads new international effort against climate lies, The Verge, Justine Calma. At the G20 summit in Brazil, governments are banding together to stop the spread of disinformation on climate change.

November 20

• A new threat arrives from a deadly bomb cyclone that just blasted the Northwest with hurricane-force gusts, Weather, CNN, Mary Gilbert, Karina Tsui & Robert Shackelford,.
• Human-caused ocean warming intensified recent hurricanes, including all 11 Atlantic hurricanes in 2024, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters. "Researchers determined that 44% of the economic damages caused by Hurricane Helene and 45% of those caused by Hurricane Milton could be attributed to climate change."

November 21

• ‘A blank piece of paper’: Here’s why the U.N. climate talks are in trouble, Climate, Washington Post, Maxine Joselow & Chico Harlan. "A draft deal unveiled at the U.N. Climate Change Conference could disappoint many delegates from countries most vulnerable to the ravages of a warming world."
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #47 2024, Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack.
• Landslides Are a Growing Climate Threat. What Do We Know About The Risks?, New York Times, Austyn Gaffney. Deadly landslides are becoming more common and large amounts of rain are a known trigger. An atmospheric river is dumping rain out West. What you should know about your risk.

November 22

• Disinformation Threatens Climate Action, UN Warns, Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn. Top officials in Baku for COP29 say the spread of false climate narratives undercuts the annual climate talks.
• Climate Change Makes Vaccines More Important-While Also Undercutting Them, Inside Climate News, By Kiley Price. Vaccines are crucial to mitigate the spread of climate-fueled diseases, experts say. But global warming also makes them less effective, while the anti-vaccine movement reduces uptake.

November 23

• Fact brief - Has human-caused climate change increased extreme weather?, Skeptical Science, Sue Bin Park.
• Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text, The Guardian, Damian Carrington. Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy'

November 26

• Adaptation Fund head laments “puzzling” lack of pledges at COP29, Politics, Climate Home News, Megan Rowling. "Even as leaders highlight the urgency of protecting people from more extreme weather and rising seas, they have been reluctant to pay up at COP29 for the measures needed"