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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44
Posted on 2 November 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 26, 2025 thru Sat, November 1, 2025.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Law and Justice (4 articles)
- Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil`s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change. Inside Climate News, Dana Drugmand, Oct 26, 2025.
- Survivors of Philippines `Super Typhoon` Sue Oil Giant for Causing Climate Emergency The lawsuit centers on Philippine laws stating that citizens have the right to a healthy environment. Common Dreams, Brad Reed, Oct 27, 2025.
- Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions The Guardian, Dharna Noor, Oct 27, 2025.
- Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right The Conversation, Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Oct 28, 2025.
Climate Policy and Politics (4 articles)
- An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders Some carmakers and energy executives say the plan would trigger costly litigation and spur individual states to create a patchwork of tighter rules. New York Times, Karen Zraick and Lisa Friedman, Oct 25, 2025.
- How Trump pressures the world into burning more oil and gas Los Angeles Times, Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Akshat Rathi, Oct 29, 2025.
- Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: `We won`t become numb` Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it The Guardian, Dharna Noor, Oct 30, 2025.
- The fall of the CBS News climate team David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news. HEATED, Emily Atkin, Oct 31, 2025.
Climate Education and Communication (3 articles)
Climate Science and Research (3 articles)
- A “controversial” methane metric? ..and then there’s Physics, Ken Rice, Oct 19, 2025.
- 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science, Editor Board, Oct 30, 2025.
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #43 2025 Our latest weekly survey of research into matters of human-caused climate change, by academic, NGO and governmental investigators. Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Oct 30, 2025.
Health Aspects of Climate Change (3 articles)
- `Millions of Avoidable Deaths`: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels Global researchers find that public awareness of climate threats is growing, but governments and companies are reversing climate progress and missing opportunities to save lives. Inside Climate News, Keerti Gopal, Oct 29, 2025.
- Climate inaction linked to millions of preventable deaths each year, study finds Phys.org, Andrew Zinin, Oct 30, 2025.
- `A devastating global audit` shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. Grist, Zoya Teirstein, Oct 31, 2025.
Climate Change Impacts (2 articles)
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (2 articles)
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (2 articles)
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (2 articles)
Miscellaneous (2 articles)
- 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43 A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 19, 2025 thru Sat, October 25, 2025. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Oct 26, 2025.
- America`s super-rich are running down the planet`s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10% The Guardian, Jonathan Watts, Oct 29, 2025.
International Climate Conferences and Agreements (1 article)
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