2022 SkS Weekly Local weather Change & International Warming Information Roundup #19

Posted on 15 Could 2022 by BaerbelW

The next articles sparked above common curiosity in the course of the week (bolded articles are from SkS authors): The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future, How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens, Experts: Global Warming Is Causing the World’s Oceans To Lose Their ‘Memory’, How a quirk of the brain prevents us from caring about climate change, and Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb.

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• The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future by George Monbiot, Surroundings, The Guardian, Could 7, 2022
• Antarctica’s majestic underwater world is trying to adapt to a warmer planet by Allison Chinchar, CNN, Could 7, 2022
• An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk by Zoha Tunio, Justice, Insude Local weather Information, Could 7, 2020
• How climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens by Seth Bornestein, Related Press, Mqy 8, 2022
• How a quirk of the brain prevents us from caring about climate change by Justin Gregg, Explainer, Salon, Could 8, 2022
• Heat Pumps Are the Ultimate Climate Techno-Fix, But Not a Silver Bullet by Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg Inexperienced, Could 6, 2022
• Experts: Global Warming Is Causing the World’s Oceans To Lose Their ‘Memory’ by Paw Mozter, Nature World Information, Could 9, 2022
• Climate change means more rain will fall but its impact on severe storms is less clear Social Sharing by Christy Climenhaga, CBC Information (Canada), Could 9, 2022
• Why Climate Change Will Exacerbate Inequalities and Grievances in Iraq by Dylan O’Driscoll and Shivan Fazil, NewSecurityBeat, Could 09, 2022
• Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb by John Timmer, Ars Technica, Could 09, 2022
• There’s a 50:50 chance the planet will pass the 1.5C warming threshold in the next 5 years by Hannah Ryan, CNN, Could 10, 2022
• Rapid snowmelt caused the lake near Shishpar glacier to flood and wiped out an important bridge by Kasha Pavel, Capital Climate Gang, Washington Submit, Could 10, 2022
• Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity by Fred Pearce, Yale Surroundings 360, Could 10, 2022
• Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity by Fred Pearce, Yale Surroundings 360, Could 10, 2022
• ‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022 by Adam Morton & Lisa Cox, Surroundings, The Guardian, Could 10, 2022
• Reducing harmful air pollution has led to a surprising effect — more hurricanes in the North Atlantic by Rachel Rameriz, CNN, Could 11, 2022
• Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts by , AFP, Could 11, 2022
• Rehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gasvealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown by Damian Carrington & Matthew Taylor, Surroundings, The Guardian, Could 11, 2022
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #19 2022 by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, Could 12, 2022
• The Southwest’s Drought and Fires Are a Window to Our Climate Change Future by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, Could 11, 2022
• Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water by Dan Gearino, Inside Local weather Information, Could 12, 2022
• New Mexico wildfire rampages on as fresh blaze engulfs California mansions by Gabrielle Canon, US Information, The Guardian, Could 12, 2022
• 2022 brings Earth’s 5th-warmest April by Jeff Masters, Eye On the Storm, Yale Local weather Connections, Could 13, 2022
• The swift march of climate change in North Carolina’s ‘ghost forests’ by Brady Dennis, Local weather Change & Surroundings, Washington Submit , Could 12, 2022
• Climate change doubled chance of South African floods that killed 435 people, analysis shows by Angela Dewan, CNN, Could 13, 2022
• How to inoculate yourself against misinformation by Melanie Trecek-King, Pondering is Energy, Could 12, 2022