2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #02

This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!

Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Change Impacts

• The Risks of Climate Change to the United States in the 21st Century& & CBO assesses how climate change will pose risks to the United States through its effects on economic activity, real estate and financial markets, human health, biodiversity, immigration, and national security.& by Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Budget Office, December 19, 2024
• Climate crisis `wreaking havoc` on Earth`s water cycle, report finds& & Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people& by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Jan 06, 2025
• Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious& & & by Ellen Welti, New Hampshire Bulletin, Jan 02, 2025
• From Snow to Heat, Extreme Weather Events Pose Outsized Risks for Food Delivery Workers& & As climate change worsens, the people delivering your food are increasingly exposed to heat, wildfire smoke and other dangerous weather events.& by Kiley Price, Inside Climate News, Jan 07, 2025
• The Unusually Strong Force Behind the Apocalyptic Fires in Los Angeles& & “This is not a typical Santa Ana.”& by Umair Irfan, Vox, Inside Climate News, Jan 08, 2025
• Where have all the species gone? Understanding climate change`s toll on nature& & Why land protection and climate action are both vital to the future of plants and animals. & by James Arnott and Kaitlin Sullivan, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 09, 2025
• Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024& & Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather &- with worse to come, EU data shows & by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Jan 10, 2025
• State of the climate: 2024 sets a new record as the first year above 1.5C& & Last year was the hottest the Earth has experienced since the start of global temperature records in the mid-1800s &- and likely for many thousands of years before. & by Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief, Jan 10, 2025
• Climate change, not endangered species protection, is a big culprit in Los Angeles fires& & Recent drought has left the state vulnerable to wildfires. & by Johani Carolina Ponce, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 10, 2025
• ‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters& & Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.& by David Gelles and Austyn Gaffney, New York Times, Jan 10, 2025
• 2024 Hindsight& & To no-one’s surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record &- and by quite a clear margin. & by Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, Jan 11, 2025
• How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: `We have tweaked nature and pissed it off`& & John Vaillant, the author of Fire Weather, explains why fires such as those in Los Angeles are different from those before& by Victoria Namkung, Environment The Guardian, Jan 11, 2025

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

• Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change& & & by Carbon Brief Staff, Carbon Brief, Jan 07, 2025
• The promises and challenges of the Philippines` new climate-resilient city& & New Clark City is being built from scratch to withstand extreme weather. Will it be a beacon of hope or a greenwashed illusion?& by Maggie Wang, Grist, Jan 08, 2025

Climate Policy and Politics

• `They`ve heard so much wrong information`: Selling heat pumps across Germany`s political divide& & 'Going green'' means different things to different people. & by Ajit Niranjan in Bautzen, The Guardian, Jan 03, 2025

Climate Science and Research

• Exploring the drivers of modern global warming& & By using a simple climate model, we can disentangle greenhouse gases, aerosols, and natural forcings.& by Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink, Jan 06, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science

• Halley Froehlich, David Pellow, Joshua Schimel & Lisa Sideris: Climate Science Needs Facts, Not Opinions to Save Our Future& & & by Halley Froehlich, David Pellow, Joshua Schimel and Lisa Sideris, Noozhawk, Jan 05, 2025
• Spreading like wildfire: How Trump’s misinformation about water and fire in Los Angeles inflames the situation& & & by Peter Gleick, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan 9, 2025
• Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ needs less fossil fuel propaganda& & & by Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, Jan 09, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions

• Sabin 33 #10 - Will utility-scale solar farms destroy the value of nearby homes?& & & by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Jan 07, 2025
• Offshore wind turbines aren’t louder than high winds or passing ships, no evidence they harm whales& & & by Erin L. Meyer-Gutbrod & Rahul Rao, Science Feedback, Jan 9, 2025

Miscellaneous (Other)

• 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #01& & A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 29, 2024 thru Sat, January 4, 2025.& by Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Skeptical Science, Jan 05, 2025
• Why anger, anxiety and anguish are understandable psychological reactions to the climate crisis& & & by Georgina Ramsay, Gareth Morgan, Lauren McGregor, The Conversation, Jan 06, 2025