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

Posted on 12 January 2025 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, January 5, 2025 thru Sat, January 11, 2025.

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

Climate Policy and Politics

Climate Science and Research

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

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