2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #05

Posted on 2 February 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom

A listing of 24 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 26, 2025 thru Sat, February 1, 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

• Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds  Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance by Ajit Niranjan, Environment The Guardian, Jan 27, 2025
• Climate change made deadly Los Angeles wildfires 35% more likely: new attribution study  The fires, likely to be the costliest in world history, were made about 35% more likely due to the 1.3°C of global warming that has occurred since preindustrial times.  by Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections, Jan 28, 2025
• Climate triple whammy boosted risk of LA fires, study shows  Hot, dry conditions, a lack of rain and a longer fire-risk season are all more likely in today’s hotter climate by Damian Carrington Environment editor, The Guardian, Jan 28, 2025
• Climate change poses ‘security threat’ to Irish economy and society   by Irishexaminer.com, IrishExaminer.com, Jan 30, 2025
• Polar bears are struggling to get enough to eat as sea ice dwindles due to climate change, study finds   by University of Toronto, Phys.org, Jan 30, 2025

Climate Policy and Politics

Climate Science and Research

• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4 2025  A weekly survey of freshly published peer reviewed and government/NGO reports on human-caused climate change, and what we can do to fix this problem. by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Jan 23, 2025
• The AMOC is slowing, it`s stable, it`s slowing, no, yes, …  There’s been a bit of media whiplash on the issue of AMOC slowing lately – ranging from the AMOC being “on the brink of collapse” to it being “more stable than previously thought”. by Stefan Rahmstorf, RealClimate, Jan 26, 2025
• Comparison Update 2024  One more dot on the graphs for our annual model-observations comparisons updates. Given how extraordinary the last two years have been, there are a few highlights to note.  by Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, Jan 27, 2025
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5 2025  A weekly survey of newly published climate research, including academic peer reviewed reports as well as government and NGO publications. by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Jan 30, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science

• Better digital literacy could help reduce climate and disaster conspiracy theories   by Sibo Chen and S. Harris Ali , The Conversation, Jan 23, 2025
• Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties  Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies by Helena Horton, Sam Bright and Clare Carlile, The Guardian, Jan 22, 2025
• The View from Liberty Energy   by Peter Sinclair, This is Not Cool, Jan 27, 2025
• UNC researchers use AI technology to combat climate data misinformation   by Sharryse Piggott, WUNC, Jan 27, 2025
• Climate Denial Group Aided Legal Defense of Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire  Lawyers defending private eye Amit Forlit against extradition to the U.S. cite a group that’s argued climate change isn’t “settled science.”  by Rebecca John and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, Jan 27, 2025
• Cenovus Funded `Grassroots` Groups That Oppose Climate Laws, Document Reveals  Internal record shows Canada’s second largest oil and gas producer donated to organizations that deny climate change is an emergency and question emissions goals. by Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, Jan 30, 2025
• Wildfires in LA influenced by Santa Ana winds and dry vegetation; climate change a likely factor, contrary to viral misinformation   by Editor Darrik Burns, Science Feedback, Jan 22, 2025
• Fact brief – Is global warming promoting biodiversity?   by Sue Bin Park, Skeptical Science, Feb 01, 2025
• The liars who just arrived in the UK  Simon Clark takes a look at the Heartland Institute’s efforts to start influencing climate policies in the UK. by Simon Clark, Youtube, Jan 31, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions

Miscellaneous (Other)