2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #01

Posted on 5 January 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom

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.

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

• A year of extreme weather that challenged billions  Climate change has brought record-breaking heat this year, and with it extreme weather, from hurricanes to month-long droughts. by Esme Stellard, BBC News, Dec 29, 2024
• Climate change is the worst. Here’s just how bad it got this year.  The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed to warming. Scientists also warned about much worse to come if we don’t rein in carbon emissions. by Hannah Osborne, Livescience, Dec 27, 2024
• 2024`s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows  Analysis of insurance payouts by Christian Aid reveals three-quarters of financial destruction occurred in US by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, Dec 30, 2024
• 2024: A Year In Climate Change   by Simon Clark, Youtube, Dec 30, 2024
• `Moving to the mountaintops`: rising seas displace tens of thousands in Papua New Guinea  Gulf province councillor says growing numbers are leaving, in what climate activist describes as a ‘humanitarian crisis’ by Rebecca Bush, The Guardian, Dec 31, 2024
• Human-induced changes increasing amount of natural carbon released   by Rod Minchin, Irish Examiner, Jan 01, 2025
• Climate news to watch in 2025   2024 was a mixed bag for climate change. Here’s what’s on the horizon for 2025.  by Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 02, 2025
• `Ironic`: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows  Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, Jan 04, 2025

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Climate education and communication

Climate Policy and Politics

• Former EU environment chief warns against backsliding on climate crisis  Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, a former environment commissioner, criticises bloc’s decision to delay deforestation law by Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian, Jan 01, 2025
• At EPA, Trump`s second term is already having consequences  EPA’s climate mitigation actions are on the hit list. by Annie Snider and Alex Guillén, Politico, Jan 02, 2025
• Trump’s OMB Pick Wants to Purge the Government of ‘Climate Fanaticism’  Re-meet the once and future director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought. by Jeva Lange, Heatmap, Nov. 23, 2024
• Former Trump adviser finally admits climate change exists to justify threatened Greenland takeover   by Gustaf Kilander, The Independent News, Dec 31, 2024
• Scientists debate fleeing America because of Trump — or risk their research being censored  “They use fear to silence us”: Two scientists express different strategies for surviving an anti-science agenda by Matthew Rozsa, Salon, Jan 3, 2025

Climate Science and Research

• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2025  Skeptical Science’s weekly scan of newly published peer reviewed research on matters connected with climate change, plus numerous government and NGO reports addressing climate policy. by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Jan 02, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions

Miscellaneous (Other)

• 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #52  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. by Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Skeptical Science, Dec 29, 2024
• 2024, a car crash for the climate.   by Ella Gilbert, DrGilbz on Youtube, Dec 29, 2024
• These Graphics Help Explain What Climate Change Looked Like in 2024  Plus, a few more that tell environmental stories in a fraught year. by Paul Horn, Inside Climate News, Dec 29, 2024
• 2024 in review – a bittersweet year for our team   by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Dec 30, 2024
• The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope  2024 was a year that might as well have been a decade. Here’s what happened, as documented by Inside Climate News reporters. by Dan Gearino, ICN Staff, Inside Climate News, Dec 30, 2024
• 2024 in review – a bittersweet year for our team  The year 2024 at Skeptical Science has been bittersweet. We are incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made in debunking climate myths, thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of our late colleague John Mason. John passed away unexpectedly in September, leaving a huge void in our team. by Bärbel Winkler, Skeptical Science, Dec 30, 2024
• The Climate Brink 2024 wrap up   by Andrew Dessler and Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink, Dec 30, 2024