2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #52

Posted on 29 December 2024 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom

A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 22, 2024 thru Sat, December 28, 2024.

This week’s roundup is the second one 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

• Climate change could create millions of climate migrants by 2050  Droughts, floods, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts are uprooting people from their homes.  by YCC Team, Yale Climate Connections, Dec 26, 2024
• 2024: A year of extreme heat and growing climate danger  This year is set to be the hottest on record – but scientists say there’s still time to limit temperature rise and harm from climate impacts  by Megan Rowling, Climate Home News, Dec 27, 2024
• When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024  When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024 is our annual report, published this year for the first time. by WWA-Team, World Weather Attribution, Dec 27, 2024
• California’s piers may not be able to withstand climate change   by Noah Haggerty, Climate , Dec 28, 2024

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Climate education and communication

Climate law and justice

Climate policy and politics

Climate science and research

• What would it take for Hell to freeze over?   by Simon Clark, Youtube, Dec 24, 2024
• 2023 was extremely hot. Then came 2024   by Lauren Sommer, NPR Topics: Climate, Dec 24, 2024
• Climate change is making plants less nutritious – that could already be hurting animals that are grazers  ‘CO2 is plant food!” Unfortunately it’s not quite so simple by Ellen Welti, Research Ecologist, Great Plains Science Program, Smithsonian Institution, The Conversation – Articles (US), Dec 20, 2024
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #52 2024  Skeptical Science’s weekly survey of research on human-caused climate change, plus select government/NGO reports touching on matters of climate.  by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Dec 26, 2024

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions

Miscellaneous (Other)

• What happened in climate news in 2024? Take our quiz  Here are 10 questions to test your knowledge of this year’s climate stories. by Emily Chung & Hannah Hoag , CBC Technology News, Dec 19, 2024
• 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51  A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 15, 2024 thru Sat, December 21, 2024. by Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom & John Hartz, Skeptical Science, Dec 22, 2024
• College students get emotional about climate change. Some are finding help in class   by Rebecca Redelmeier , NPR Topics: Climate, Dec 22, 2024
• Do you want the GOOD news or the BAD news?   by Dave Borlace, “Just have a think” on Youtube, Dec 22, 2024
• Climate anger can lead to action-or curdle into despair: Researchers find out why   by Samantha Stanley, Iain Walker, Teaghan Hogg and Zoe Leviston, Phys.org – from The Conservation, Dec 22, 2024
• Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day, study reveals  Campaigners say consumption such as travel, gifts and food are destroying planet and the meaning of Christmas by Damien Gayle, Environment The Guardian, Dec 24, 2024
• A DeSmog Guide to How the World Changed in 2024  Our editors and reporters weigh in on a year of seismic political events, and what they’re paying close attention to in 2025.  by DeSmog Staff, DeSmog, Dec 26, 2024
• ¡AI Caramba!  Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware? by Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, Dec 28, 2024