Homeopathy’s ‘super guru’ wants homeopathy to return to the dark ages

George Vithoulkas * (GV) is one of today’s most influential lay-homeopaths, a real ‘super guru’. He has many bizarre ideas; one of the most peculiar one was recently outlined in his article entitled ‘An innovative proposal for scientific alternative medical journals’. Here are a few excerpts from it:

…the only evidence that homeopathy can present to […]

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The Queen’s homeopath seems to sense that homeopathy is on its last leg

Dr Peter Fisher (I have mentioned him several times before, see for instance here, here and here) claimed in his recent editorial ( Fisher P, Homeopathy and intellectual honesty, Homeopathy (2017) – not yet available on Medline) that 43 systematic reviews of homeopathy have so far been published, and stated that “of these 21 were […]

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. 

Editor's Pick

Coal use must 'pretty much' be gone by 2050 to curb sea-level rise, researchers say

Warming waters are melting the Antarctic ice sheets from below. Photo: APT

Coal use will have to be "pretty much" gone by mid-century if the planet is to avoid sea-level rise of more than a metre by 2100 as Antarctic ice sheets disintegrate faster than expected, new modelling by an Australian-led team has found.
On business-as-usual projections, sea-level rise by the end of the century could exceed 1.3 metres compared with the 1986-2005 average, or 55 per cent more than predicted in the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to research published in the Environmental Research Letters journal.
"We have provided a preview of what will have to be considered and assessed in more detail by the upcoming Sixth IPCC report," due for release in 2021, said Alexander Nauels, lead author of the report, and a researcher at Melbourne University's Australian-German Climate & Energy College.
Coal use must 'pretty much' be gone by 2050 to curb sea-level rise, researchers say by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 26, 2017

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Links posted on Facebook

Sun Oct 22, 2017

• Pollution’s Annual Price Tag? $4.6 Trillion and 9 Million Dead by John Tozzi, Bloomberg News, Oct 19, 2017
• An evangelical Christian took her climate change message to the heart of conservative Iowa. Here's how she was greeted by Mike Kilen, DeMoines Register, Oct 21, 2017
• Jacinda Ardern commits New Zealand to zero carbon by 2050 by Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home, Oct 20, 2017
• Powerful typhoon drenches Japan, tens of thousands advised to evacuate by Elaine Lies & Makiko Yamazaki, Reuters, Oct 21, 2017
• Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Portraying Environmental Activism as Illegal Racket by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Oct 16, 2017
• Phoenix's heat is rising — and so is the danger by Brandon Loomis, azcentral.com., Oct 18, 2017
• Hurricane Irma: U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Climate Deal 'The Most Backward Decision' Ever, Says Antigua PM by Connor Gaffney, Newsweek, Oct 20, 2017
• Gutting the Clean Power Plan puts off the steps needed to avert climate disasters, Editorial, BDN Maine, Oct 16, 2017

Mon Oct 23, 2017

• Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers by Damian Carrington, Guardian, Oct 18, 2017
• E.P.A. Cancels Talk on Climate Change by Agency Scientists by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, Oct 22, 2017
• Wild is the wind: the resource that could power the world by Paula Cocozza, Guardian, Oct 15, 2017
• Seven dead as Typhoon Lan lashes Japan, KYODO/The Japanese Times, Oct 23, 2017
• UN shipping climate talks ‘captured’ by industry lobbyists by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Oct 23, 2017
• Ocean acidification is deadly threat to marine life, finds eight-year study by Fiona Harey, Guardian, Oct 23, 2017
• Americans want a tax on carbon pollution, but how to get one? by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 23, 2017
• Oceans Can Rise in Sudden Bursts by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 20, 2017

Tue Oct 24, 2017

• In Defense of the 1.5°C Climate Change Threshold by Loren Legarda, Project Syndicate, Oct 23, 2017
• Scotland is Now Getting Electricity from the World's First Floating Wind Farm by Melissa C. Lott, Scientific American, Oct 22, 2017
• Seeking 'common ground' in climate change dialogs by Karin Kirk, Yale Climate Communications, Oct 23, 2017
• Climate Change Will Bring Major Flooding to New York Every 5 Years by Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Oct 24, 2017
• Will global warming increase or decrease U.S. energy consumption? by Lucas Davis, Berkeley News, Oct 23, 2017
• Congressional Auditor Urges Action to Address Climate Change by Lisa Friedman, Climate, New York Times, Oct 23, 2017
• Ganges under threat from climate change by Jasvinder Sehgal, Deutsche Welle (WE), Oct 24, 2017
• London is trying an innovative new strategy to stop air pollution: taxing old cars by Zeeshan Aleem, Vox, Oct 23, 2017

Wed Oct 25, 2017

• How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers) by Somini Sengupta, New York Times, Oct 24, 2017
• Washington D.C. Tackles Emissions with Dockless Bikes by Camille von Kaenel, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 23, 2017
• In-depth: How will climate change affect animal sex ratios? by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, Oct 23, 2017
• EPA Press Office Tips Toward Hostility Under Pruitt by Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News, Oct 24, 2017
• Puerto Rico’s Solar Future Takes Shape at Children’s Hospital, with Tesla Batteries by Lyndsen Gilpin, InsideClimate News, Oct 25, 2017
• The Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor by Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, Oct 24, 2017
• Why the IPCC's New Focus on Mountain Climate Change Is a Big Deal by Bob Berwyn, Pacific Standard, Oct 25, 2017
• Rising Seas Are Flooding Virginia’s Naval Base, and There’s No Plan to Fix It by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, Oct 25, 2017

Thu Oct 26, 2017

• Hurricane season 2017: what the hell just happened? by Brian Resnick, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 25, 2017
• Role of the Fashion Industry in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by Karen Newman and Cara Smyth, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 23, 2017
• Latin America Heads to Climate Summit with Uneven Progress by Emilio Godoy, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 23, 2017
• Exclusive: The Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Its Strategic Plan by Adam Federman, The Nation, Oct 25, 2017
• Are Antarctica's Ice Sheets Near a Climate Tipping Point? by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 26, 2017
• What does a sexist Google engineer teach us about women in science? by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 23, 2017
• New science suggests the ocean could rise more — and faster — than we thought by Chris Mooney, Energy & Envronment, Oct 26, 2017
• Shipping executive: ‘We have deliberately misled public on climate’ by Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home, Oct 26, 2017

Fri Oct 27, 2017

• We will be toasted, roasted and grilled': IMF chief sounds climate change warning, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Guardian, Oct 25, 2017
• ‘Let us do our job’: Anger erupts over EPA’s apparent muzzling of scientists by Juliet Elperin & Brady Dennis, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 23, 2017
• New research, October 16-22, 2017 by Ari Jokimäki, Skeptical Science, Oct 27, 2017
• New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate by Daisy Dumme, Carbon Brief, Oct 23, 2017
• Even climate deniers seem to think Scott Pruitt is bullshitting by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 26, 2017
• Why hot weather records continue to tumble worldwide by Andrew King, The Conversation AU, Oct 26. 2017
• Coal use must 'pretty much' be gone by 2050 to curb sea-level rise, researchers say by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 26, 2017

Sat Oct 28, 2017

• Tesla just brought solar to a hospital in Puerto Rico. The rest of the island won't be as easy. by Umair Irfan, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 26, 2017
• Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure,’ labor union says by Jason Samenow, Capital weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 26, 2017
• Analysis: How could the Agung volcano in Bali affect global temperatures? by Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief, Oct 25, 2017
• 5 Years After Sandy, New York Rebuilds With The Next Flood In Mind by Joel Rose, NPR News, Oct 28, 2017
• These ocean drones are trawling for climate change data by Katy Scott, CNN Money, Oct 27, 2017
• Climate change threatens the survival of Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs by Daisy Dumme, Carbon Brief, Oct 26, 2017

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How should alt med practitioners be educated and trained?

The German Heilpraktiker (a phenomenon vaguely equivalent to the ‘naturopath’ in English speaking countries) has become a fairly regular feature on this blog – see, for instance here, here, and here. The nationally influential German Medical Journal, a weekly publication of the German Medical Association, recently published an article about the education of this profession.

In […]

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Survey data show that, in Europe, homeopathy is used by only a tiny minority

I have often cautioned about what I call the ‘survey mania’ in alternative medicine. Yet, once in a while, an informative survey gets published. Take this recent survey, for instance:

It was based on a design-based logistic regression analysis of the European Social Survey (ESS), Round 7. The researchers distinguished 4 modalities: manual therapies, alternative medicinal […]

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Regrettable journalism around the tragic death of a chiropractic patient

The British press recently reported that a retired bank manager (John Lawler, aged 80) died after visiting a chiropractor in York. This tragic case was published in multiple articles, most recently in THE SUN. Personally, I find this regrettable – not the fact that the press warns consumers of chiropractic, but the tone and content […]

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Did you know that TCM originated from Bavaria?

You may think that all TCM treatments come from China – most people do, but they are wrong. It is the Bavarians who have invented much 0f TCM long before the Chinese ever thought of it. Remember Oetzi? Well, he was (almost) Bavarian. He had acupuncture points tattooed all over his body , and he […]

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Animal experiments in alternative medicine research – a new and odd phenomenon

For some time now, I got the impression that the research literature of alternative medicine is yielding more and more animal experiments. But impressions can of course be misleading, so I did a small statistical analysis. I went on to Medline, searched for all papers on ‘complementary/alternative medicine’, and counted the number of animal studies […]

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #42

Story of the Week... SkS in the News... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...

Story of the Week...

September 2017: Earth's 4th Warmest September on Record

The deadliest weather-related disaster of September was Hurricane Irma, which killed 80 people in the Southeast U.S., and 44 people in the Caribbean and Bahamas. In this VIIRS infrared image of Hurricane Irma at 1:35 am EDT Wednesday, September 6, 2017, the island of Barbuda was in the eye, and Irma was a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. Image credit: UW-Madison/CIMSS.

September 2017 was the planet's fourth warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and NASA this week. The only warmer Septembers came during 2015, 2016, and 2014. Minor differences can occur between the NASA and NOAA rankings because of their different techniques for analyzing data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.
Global ocean temperatures last month were the fourth warmest on record for any September, according to NOAA, and global land temperatures were the third warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the warmest for any September in the 39-year record, according to the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and Remote Sensing Systems (RSS).
September 2017: Earth's 4th Warmest September on Record by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct 18, 2017

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SkS in the News...

Ari Jokimäki's series of original SkS articles about the infamous Florides et al. 2013 paper was highlighted in the Denier Roundup section of Climate Nexus' Hot News broadcast email of Friday, Oct 20. The Climate Nexus summary in its entirety:

Plagarism’s Just One of Many Problems with Florides’ 2013 It’s-Sun-Not-Co2 Paper 

With deniers running DC and creating political shenanigans, it’s been a minute since we focused on some shoddy denier science. So we were pleased to see a new series of posts at Skeptical Science detailing the many, many problems a group of researchers found with a 2013 paper by lead author Georgios Florides, and the long and winding road that led to the publication of this series all these years later.

The Florides paper in question concludes “no sound conclusions can be drawn” about climate change, because the “natural signal of solar forcing has been mistakenly overlooked for an anthropogenic change.” But is it accurate? Has the Sun’s influence been overlooked or confused for a human signal? In the spirit of not just assuming everything that contradicts the mainstream is bunk, let’s take a look.

In the first post in a four part series, Ari Jokimäki of Skeptical Science shows that the paper very obviously plagiarizes a lot of material: from IPCC AR4, from Wikipedia, other studies, and even the study author’s own book (which itself lifted language from elsewhere). Jokimäki and the SkS team focused on the 27 paragraphs of the first two chapters of the study, showing 78% contained portions of other texts not properly cited. Though there were some changes in some places, the edits “were trivial enough to suggest that there were deliberate copy-paste-editing involved.” When looking at the side-by-side comparisons, it is blatantly obvious Florides et al lifted others’ writings. (In one case, a word in the middle of a sentence is Capitalized, because that’s where the sentence started in the material they copy-pasted.)

In part two, Jokimäki goes into the content of the paper itself, detailing the many logical fallacies, misleading discussions, cherry-picking, omission of relevant research, misrepresentations and more that are standard for denial work. The Skeptical Science researchers found 43 individual problems in just the first two chapters of the paper. This means about 70% of the 27 paragraphs contained errors, averaging out to 1.6 problems per paragraph. Which, to Florides’ credit, makes it impressively wrong. For example, the paper reaches its conclusion that the Sun’s influence on climate has been overlooked by mainstream climate science by overlooking the mainstream science that deals with the Sun’s influence.

For the next act, the Skeptical Science folks put non-plagiarized sources cited by Florides under the microscope. Not surprisingly, 40% of the paper’s sources aren’t even peer-reviewed. A similar percentage of the paper’s references are to “contrarian” or “alternative” sources--i.e. other denier papers that we know are likely to suffer from the same failings as this one.

Finally, Jokimäki details in the fourth post the long and painful process of dealing with the journal that published this clearly awful paper. For three years now the SkS crew has been bringing these many damning problems to the otherwise solid journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and its popular publisher Elsevier. Despite the obvious plagiarism, which gets papers retracted all the time (and the journal essentially sidesteps by only comparing the study to one of the sources from which they copy and pasted, not all of them) and despite the overwhelming abundance of fallacies and errors, the journal refused to retract the paper. And despite an initial invitation from Elsevier’s editor-in-chief Lawrence Kazmerski to write a comment reply, after years of work and waiting for a response, Elsevier decided not to let Jokimäki et al publish their rebuttal.

Which is completely baffling. The errors are numerous, and plagiarism like this would get students at even the most lax school expelled! Why wouldn’t they retract such a fundamentally flawed paper? What the hEllsevier? 

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Quote of the Week...

“The fact that the number of flying insects is decreasing at such a high rate in such a large area is an alarming discovery,” said Hans de Kroon, at Radboud University in the Netherlands and who led the new research.
“Insects make up about two-thirds of all life on Earth [but] there has been some kind of horrific decline,” said Prof Dave Goulson of Sussex University, UK, and part of the team behind the new study. “We appear to be making vast tracts of land inhospitable to most forms of life, and are currently on course for ecological Armageddon. If we lose the insects then everything is going to collapse.”
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers by Damian Carrington, Guardian, Oct 18, 2017

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Graphic of the Week...

2017 on Track to Be Third Hottest Year Nationally

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Through the end of September, 2017 is the third hottest year on record in the U.S. These figures are even more impressive in the absence of an El Niño, which gives a small boost in average global temperatures. This is further evidence that the observed long-term warming of the globe is from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The U.S. will likely finish 2017 as the third hottest year since scientists began recording temperatures in the 1890s. If that holds true, then five of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. will have come since 2006. Only two of those 10 hottest years came before 1998, so those five hottest years are each hotter than the hottest of the Dustbowl years, 1934.
Through the end of September, the U.S. is having its warmest consecutive 24, 36, and 48 months on record. This consistent warmth over the past four years has been practically independent of the warming waters of an El Niño. In fact, La Niña years are now warmer than El Niño years from 30 years ago.
Speaking of oceans, they play a critical role in the earth’s longer term temperature, as 93 percent of the energy from human-caused warming is going into the oceans. This means that in addition to more warm days the planet is experiencing a more intense water cycle, which is behind the observed global increase in heavy precipitation.
METHODOLOGY: The top 10 years in the U.S. are NOAA calculations using anomalies based on the 20th-century average; 2017 is based on the year-to-date anomaly through September.
2017 on Track to Be Third Hottest Year Nationally, Climate Central Staff, Oct 18, 2017

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SkS Spotlights...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.  Since then, the GEF has provided over $17 billion in grants and mobilized an additional $88 billion in financing for more than 4000 projects in 170 countries.  Today, the GEF is an international partnership of 183 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector that addresses global environmental issues.
The GEF is…

• A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP of 18 agencies — including United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks, national entities and international NGOs — working with 183 countries to address the world’s most challenging environmental issues. The GEF has a large network of civil society organizations, works closely with the private sector around the world, and receives continuous inputs from an independent evaluation office and a world-class scientific panel.
• A FINANCIAL MECHANISM for 5 major international environmental conventions: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
• AN INNOVATOR AND CATALYST that supports multi-stakeholder alliances to preserve threatened ecosystems on land and in the oceans, build greener cities, boost food security and promote clean energy for a more prosperous, climate-resilient world; leveraging $5.2 in additional financing for every $1 invested. Read more + 

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Coming Soon on SkS...

• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Waming Digest (John Hartz)
• Americans want a carbon tax; but how to get one?  (Dana)
• The F13 files, part 3 (Ari)
• Guest Post (John Abraham)
• Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit (Joeri Rogelj & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner)
• New research this week (Ari)
• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup (John Hartz)

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Poster of the Week...

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SkS Week in Review... 

• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42 by John Hartz
• New research, October 9-15, 2017 by Ari Jokimäki
• The F13 files, part 2 - the content analysis by Ari Jokimäki
• CliFi – A new way to talk about climate change by John Abraham (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
• The F13 files, part 1 - the copy/paste job by Ari Jokimäki
• The war on coal is over. Coal lost. by Dana Nuccitelli, (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian) 
• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41 by John Hartz

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Naturopathy for cancer … claims that have the potential to be lethal

The nonsense that some naturopaths try to tell the public never ceases to amaze me. This article is a good example: a “naturopathic doctor” told a newspaper that “We do have a reputation associated with cancer, but we don’t treat cancer. We use highly intelligent computer software to find out what is wrong with the body at […]

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. 

Editor's Pick

New Fire Danger Threatens to Worsen Most Disastrous Wildfire Season in California History

 

A firefighter holds a water hose while fighting a wildfire Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Image credit: AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez.

A record-breaking heat wave will build over Southern California over the weekend and peak on Tuesday, bringing triple-digit temperatures that could set marks for the hottest temperatures ever recorded so late in the year in the Los Angeles area. Accompanying the heat will be the notorious Santa Ana winds, which will bring a multi-day period of critical fire danger, Saturday through Tuesday.

According to NOAA, the hottest temperatures ever recorded after October 23 in Southern California (along with the Weather Underground forecast for Tuesday) were:

105°F Riverside, 10/28/1915 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 100°F)
101°F LAX Airport, 11/1/1966 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 96°F)
101°F Longbeach, 11/1/1966 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 100°F)
100°F Downtown Los Angeles, 11/1/1966 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 101°F)
100°F Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena, 10/26/2003 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 99°F)
100°F San Diego, 11/4/2010 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 91°F)
99°F Bakersfield, 10/27/1906 (WU forecast for Tuesday: 90°F)

The heat wave and Santa Ana winds will be caused by a large near-record-strength dome of high pressure expected to settle in over the Great Basin, a few hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles. The difference in pressure between this high-pressure system and lower pressure over Southern California will drive gusty northeast winds over Southern California. Since these winds will originate over desert areas, they will be hot and dry. As the air descends from the mountains to the coast, the air will get hotter and drier, due to adiabatic compression—the process whereby the pressure on a parcel of air increases as it descends, decreasing its volume, and thus increasing its temperature as work is done on it. 

New Fire Danger Threatens to Worsen Most Disastrous Wildfire Season in California History by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct 20, 2017 

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Links posted on Facebook

Sun Oct 15, 2017

• Powerful Hurricane Ophelia heads toward Ireland by Steve Alasmy, CNN, Oct 14, 2017
• Sinking into the sea by Briar Stewart, CBC News, Oct 13, 2017
• Geoengineering is not a quick fix for climate change, experts warn Trump by Kate Connolly, Guardian, Oct 14, 2017
• How NASA tracks carbon emissions from space to better understand — and deal with — climate change by Amina Kahn, Los Angeles Times, Oct 12, 2017
• Firefight in Sonoma County reaches second week as flames force thousands to evacuate by Kevin McCallum & Randi Rossmann, The Press Democrat, Oct 15, 2017 
• Coal Is Going Down, No Matter What Trump and Pruitt Fantasize by Elliott Negin, Alternet, Oct 13, 2017
• Hurricane Ophelia: Warnings as storm heads to UK, BBC News, Oct 15, 2017
• Human success at the expense of other species is “a pretty awful legacy” by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 12, 2017

Mon Oct 16, 2017

• Why Tony Abbott’s climate snow job mistakes Australia for Europe, Opinion by Greg Jericho, Guardian, Oct 14, 2017
• This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be Worse by David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Oct 11, 2017
• Americans are willing to pay $177 a year to avoid climate change by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 13, 2017
• In China, the war on coal just got serious by Kristy Needham, The Age, Oct 13, 2017
• Portugal and Spain wildfires: Dozens dead and injured, BBC News, Oct 16, 2017
• Clean Energy Target: There's nothing in the ACCC report that suggests it should be axed, Analysis by Stephen Long, ABC News, Oct 16, 2016
• The Senate’s top climate advocate explains why Congress is doing nothing about global warming by Jeff Stein, Vox, Oct 16, 2017
• The pull of energy markets – and legal challenges – will blunt plans to roll back EPA carbon rules by Hari Osofsky & Hannah Wiseman, The Conversation US, Oct 13, 2017

Tue Oct 17, 2017

• Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms by Martin Singh, The Conversation AU, Oct 17, 2017
• The Pope just criticized the US for abandoning the Paris climate agreement by Philip Pullella, Reuters/Business Insider, Oct 16, 2017
• Trump voters confront climate change in wake of hurricane by Claire Galofaro, AP News, Oct 16, 2017
• Wind, rain, and wildfire: the wrath Hurricane Ophelia brought to Europe by Umair Irfan, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 17, 2017
• Hurricane Ophelia: the shape of things to come? by John Sweeney, Irish Times, Oct 17, 2017
• The war on coal is over. Coal lost. by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 16, 2017
• September 2017 was fourth warmest September on record, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Oct 17, 2017
• Hurricane Ophelia Sheds Light On Another Climate Change Concern by Lydia O'Connor, HuffPost, Oct 16, 2017

Wed Oct 18, 2017

• Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, Oct 11, 2017
• Proposed New Mexico science standards omit global warming by Morgan Lee, AP/ABC News, Oct 16, 2017
• Scott Pruitt’s quest to kill Obama's climate regulations is deeply shady — and legally vulnerable by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 17, 2017
• Carbon-sucking technology needed by 2030s, scientists warn by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 10, 2017
• As scientists ponder "hacking the climate," poor countries are wary by Anna Pujol-Mazzini, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 18, 2017
• 2017 lining up to be among the three warmest years on record by Rebecca Lindsey, NOAA's Climate.gov, Oct 18, 2017
• A Small Firm in Germany Has Big Ambitions in Green Energy by Stanley Reed, New York Times, Oct 17, 2017
• Typhoon Lan poised to be Northern Hemisphere’s next megastorm in the western Pacific by Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Oct 18, 2017mf

Thu Oct 19, 2017

• Global Warming Could Make This Lurking Climate Threat Even Worse by Sam Lemonick, Forbes, Oct 17, 2017
• El Niño’s Warning: Satellite Shows How Forest CO2 Emissions Can Skyrocket by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 17, 2017
• Our Federal Science Agencies Are in Mortal Danger, Opinon by Andrew A. Rosenberg & Kathleen Rest, Scientific American, Oct 17, 2017
• CliFi – A new way to talk about climate change by John Abraham,  Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 18, 2017
• September 2017: Earth's 4th Warmest September on Record by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct 18, 2017
• New study suggests insect populations have declined by 75% over 3 decades by Euan McKirdy, CNN, Oct 19, 2017
• Facing Public Outcry, New Mexico Restores Evolution and Global Warming to Science Standards by Andy Kroll, Mother Jones, Oct 18, 2017
• Some New Zealand climate change impacts may already be irreversible, Government report says by Charlie Mitchell & Ged Cann, Stuff.co.nz, Oct 17, 2017

Fri Oct 20, 2017

• A brief history of the Earth's CO2 by Joanna Haigh, BBC News, Oct 19, 2017
• New Talks on Paris Climate Pact Are Set, and That’s Awkward for U.S. by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, Oct 18, 2017
• California’s new law aims to tackle imported emissions by Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief, Oct 18, 2017
• Portuguese kids hit climate lawsuit crowdfunding milestone by Megan Darby, Climate Home News, Oct 19, 2017
• Renewables will give more people access to electricity than coal, says IEA by Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, Oct 19, 2017
• 4 Questions About Climate Change and the California Fires by Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News, Oct 19, 2017
• E.P.A. Scrubs a Climate Website of ‘Climate Change’ by Lisa Friedman, New York Times, Oct 20, 2017
• Here’s what Rick Perry would have recommended if he’d listened to his own grid study by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 20, 2017

Sat Oct 21, 2017

• The strongest storm on Earth right now is heading for Japan by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Oct 20, 2017
• Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row, EU Science Hub, Oct 20, 2017
• A more climate-resilient Puerto Rico? by Bruce Lieberman, Yale Climate Connections, Oct 18, 2017
• New Fire Danger Threatens to Worsen Most Disastrous Wildfire Season in California History by Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct 20, 2017
• Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves may have appeared for the first time in over 7,000 years by Sev Kender, The Conversation UK, Oct 19, 2917
• The most effective clean energy policy gets the least love by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 21, 2017

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Lies, damned lies, and homeopathy

If you had chronic kidney disease (CKD), would you be attracted by an article entitled ‘How to Reduce Creatinine Level in Homeopathy’? (Elevated levels are normally caused by CKD which makes it an important diagnostic test to diagnose the condition) I am sure many patients would! A few days ago, an article with exactly this […]

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UK government response to petition ‘Stop NHS England from removing … homeopathic medicines’

Herbal and homeopathic lobby groups have petitioned to stop NHS England from removing herbal and homeopathic medicines: NHS England is consulting on recommendations to remove herbal and homeopathic medicines from GP prescribing. The medicines cost very little and have no suitable alternatives for many patients. Therefore we call on NHS England to continue to allow doctors to prescribe homeopathy and herbal medicine. The petition received around 16 500 signatures.

Now the UK government has responded. I take the liberty of posting the full response below […]

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Herbal Remedies Have Been Linked To Liver Cancer Across Asia | IFLScience

Herbal remedies containing aristolochic acids (AA) have been linked to liver cancer from samples collected in hospitals around the world. The dangerous compounds are found in the birthwort family of plants, which are commonly used in traditional medicine to “help” with childbirth and promote healing.

The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, found that in 78 percent of liver cancer samples collected in Taiwan showed a distinctive mutation consistent with AA exposure. The team looked at 98 samples of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, and the most common cause of death in people with cirrhosis... Read on: Herbal Remedies Have Been Linked To Liver Cancer Across Asia | IFLScience

Acupuncture for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease? No, I don’t think so!

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a common, benign condition. It can be treated by changing eating habits or drugs. Many alternative therapies are also on offer, for instance, acupuncture. But does it work? Let’s find out.

The objective of this meta-analysis was to explore the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease […]

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Is chiropractic treatment safe?

This is the question asked by the American Chiropractic Association. And this is their answer [the numbers in square brackets were inserted by me and refer to my comments below]:

Chiropractic is widely recognized [1] as one of the safest drug-free, non-invasive therapies available for the treatment of neuromusculoskeletal complaints [2]. Although chiropractic has an […]

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The Natural Cancer Cure Lie | Home | Cancer Answers, MD

As we walked back towards the waiting room following the scan that would serve as the blueprint that we would use to plan Darren’s radiation for his cancer, he asked a question that stopped me in my tracks. “If I decide to cancel my radiation appointments, can I just call you?” To determine whether this was just a simple question of curiosity in the case of an emergency or something more, I asked him to clarify why he would consider canceling. Standing in the hallway between two clinic rooms, he stated that in the time between our first meeting and today’s visit, he had been doing some online “research” and thought he would consider doing something “more natural” to keep his cancer at bay...

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41

Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Graphic of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... 97 Hours of Consensus...

Story of the Week...

Firefight in Sonoma County reaches second week as flames force thousands to evacuate

Firefighters from Compton put a scratch and wet line around a fire on Lovall Valley Road in Somona, Saturday, Oct 14, 2017. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat) 2017

An army of firefighters with a larger aerial arsenal at their disposal held their ground and made some gains Saturday on devastating wildfires ravaging Wine Country, but evacuation orders that forced thousands from their homes before dawn and a rising death toll were clear reminders of the peril that still grips the region.

Northeast winds that arrived early Saturday whipped up a new fire in the hills outside eastern Santa Rosa, and spread an existing blaze outside Sonoma, prompting another round of nighttime evacuation orders.

Thousands of Santa Rosa residents were forced to leave — some for the second time since last Sunday — while others faced their first mandatory orders in Sonoma. 

Firefight in Sonoma County reaches second week as flames force thousands to evacuate by Kevin McCallum & Randi Rossmann, The Press Democrat, Oct 15, 2017 

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El Niño/La Niña Update

The task of a climate forecaster is to see the forest, and not get hung up on the individual trees. Especially that extra tall one over there, with the gnarl that looks like a face, and the low branches that would be so easy to climb, and… uh, right. My point is that we try to look beyond shorter-term weather to see longer-term monthly and seasonal patterns. After all, a particular winter can have several colder-than-average days and still be warmer than average overall.

Which brings me to the current situation in the tropical Pacific! The October ENSO forecast says La Niña conditions are favored during the fall and winter 2017-18, but at press time the ocean-atmosphere system didn’t quite meet the criteria for a La Niña Advisory. Specifically, while the atmosphere is generally consistent with La Niña, the sea surface temperature in the Niño3.4 region has been volatile, recently edging up close to average following several weeks near or below the La Niña threshold (0.5°C colder than average).

 

Animation showing sea surface temperature departure from the 1981-2010 average from early August through early October 2017. Graphic by climate.gov; data from NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Lab.

Is the overall pattern truly La Niña, with some short-term fluctuations temporarily obscuring the pattern? Or has the atmosphere-ocean system really not settled down into a consistent pattern at all? The difference between these two scenarios is subtle, and the ENSO forecast team is maintaining the La Niña Watch as we wait for a clearer picture. The forecast is for that picture to become clearer soon, with La Niña conditions 55-65% likely during this fall and winter.

October 2017 ENSO update: Still watching for La Niña by Emily Becker, NOAA's Climate.gov. Oct 12, 2017

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Toon of the Week...

 

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Graphic of the Week...

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan. In response, Janet Redman, U.S. Policy Director of Oil Change International issued the following statement:

“Pruitt’s move to repeal the Clean Power Plan shouldn’t come as any surprise. He’s repeatedly partnered with fossil fuel companies to sue the EPA for regulating the industry’s air, water, and climate pollution. This kind of cronyism is exactly what happens when government agencies are captured by the corporations they’re supposed to oversee.

“According to Pruitt, this is just another way to even the playing field for coal, oil, and gas – but he knows as well as anyone that fossil fuels already get massive government giveaways. In fact, permanent tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry are seven times higher than those for renewable energy.

“The fight to curb the worst abuses of the fossil fuel energy industry won’t stop here. Federal legislation, the courts, and millions of voters have made it clear that the federal government is obligated to protect American workers and families from the deadly impacts of dirty energy, not hand polluters taxpayer dollars.”

 

Oil Change International Statement On Clean Power Plan Repeal, Oct 10, 2017

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SkS Spotlights...

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Portal was launched in 2010 as a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project. It is led by the science education expertise of TERC, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. As of 2012, CLEAN has been syndicated to NOAA's climate.gov portal.

CLEAN's primary effort is to steward the collection of climate and energy science educational resources and to support a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy. 

The three key components of the CLEAN project are: 

1. The CLEAN Collection of Climate and Energy Science resources- high-quality, digital resources—including learning activities, visualizations, videos, and short demonstrations/experiments—geared toward educators of students in secondary through undergraduate levels.

2. Guidance in Teaching Climate and Energy Science – pages designed to help educators understand and be equipped to teach the big ideas in climate and energy science. 

3. The CLEAN Network – a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy.  

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Coming Soon on SkS...

• The war on coal is over.  Coal lost (Dana)
• The F13 files, part 1 - the copy/paste job (Ari)
• Guest Post (John Abraham)
• Americans want a $15 per month carbon tax; but how to get one? (Dana)
• New research this week (Ari)
• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #42 (John Hartz)
• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Waming Digest #42 (John Hartz)

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Poster of the Week...

 

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SkS Week in Review... 

• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41 by John Hartz
• New research, October 2-8, 2017 by Ari Jokimäki
• SkS Analogy 10 - Bathtubs and Budgets by Evan & jg
• Despite Trump, American companies are still investing in renewable energy by John Abraham (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
• Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming? by Zeke Hausfather (Carbon Brief)
• Trump’s plan to bail out failing fossil fuels with taxpayer subsidies is perverse by Dana Nuccitelli (Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian)
• 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #40 by John Hartz

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97 Hours of Consensus...

 

 

Ken Denman's bio page

Quote derived with author's permission from:

"The issue is not a lack of scientific evidence, the issue is the unwillingness of people and governments to act. It seems to defy logic. But a lot of addictions defy logic. Our society is completely addicted to cheap power." 

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Guess what – we just received an ‘Ockham Award’ !

It was Alan Henness who persuaded me and helped me to start this blog. He probably feared that, after my retirement from my Exeter post, I might stop being a nuisance to Prince Charles and other quacks. The blog certainly prevented this possibility!

The very first post on my blog went live on 14 October […]

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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #41

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. 

Editor's Pick

Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests

If climate change continues to worsen unchecked, and forest degradation continues unabated, then unstoppable Amazon mega-fires could be seen in this century; such fires would greatly increase the release of carbon into the atmosphere worsening climate change. Photo courtesy of IBAMA 

• With the fire season still on-going, Brazil has seen 208,278 fires this year, putting 2017 on track to beat 2004’s record 270,295 fires. While drought (likely exacerbated by climate change) worsens the fires, experts say that nearly every blaze this year is human-caused.
• The highest concentration of fires in the Amazon biome in September was in the São Félix do Xingu and Altamira regions. Fires in Pará state in September numbered 24,949, an astonishing six-fold increase compared with 3,944 recorded in the same month last year.
• The Amazon areas seeing the most wildfires have also seen rapid change and development in recent years, with high levels of deforestation, and especially forest degradation, as loggers, cattle ranchers, agribusiness and dam builders move in.
• Scientists warn of a dangerous synergy: forest degradation has turned the Amazon from carbon sink to carbon source; while globally, humanity’s carbon emissions are worsening drought and fires. Brazil’s rapid Amazon development deepens the problem. Researchers warn that mega-fires could be coming, unless trends are reversed. 

Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests by Sue Branford & Maurício Torres, Mongabay, Oct 11, 2017

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Links posted on Facebook

Sun Oct 8, 2017

• Back-to-Back Hurricanes Take Heavy Toll on the Caribbean by António Guterres, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 4, 2017
• Buffeted but not sunk: Paris resilience plan tackles inequity and climate change by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Oct 8, 2017
• From cloud nine to climate change, here’s why you should always look up by Amy Ellis Nutt, Health & Science, Washington Post, Oct 7, 2017
• Our Changing Climate Mind-Set, Opinion by Robert Jay Lifton, Sunday Review, New York Times, Oct 7, 2017
• Hurricane Nate Weakens to Tropical Storm After Landfall by Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Oct 8, 2017
• Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more than we thought by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Oct 7, 2017
• Walruses face 'death sentence' as Trump administration fails to list them as endangered by Oliver Milman, Guardian, Oct 4, 2017
• Elon Musk says he can rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid with solar, BBC News, Oct 6, 2017

Mon Oct 9, 2017

• Australia's energy trainwreck: How we ended up with the world's highest power bills, Perry Williams, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 6, 2017
• NSW bids to skirt court's coal mine ruling by weakening laws protecting Sydney's water by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 9, 2017
• Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by Hiroko Taubuci, New York Times, Oct 6, 2017
• Germany’s Shift to Green Power Stalls, Despite Huge Investments by Stanley Reed, New York Times, Oct 7, 2017
• E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule by Lisa Friedman & Brad Plumer, Climate, New York Times, Oct 9, 2017
• Trump’s plan to bail out failing fossil fuels with taxpayer subsidies is perverse by Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 9, 2017
• Mega-battery plant to come online in Sheffield by Adam Vaughn, Guardian, Oct 9, 2017
• Hyperthermals: What can they tell us about modern global warming? by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, Oct 9, 2017

Tue Oct 10, 2017

• Chief Scientist Alan Finkel makes last ditch plea for clean energy target by James Massola & Cole Latimer, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 9, 2017
• Growing acidification of the Chesapeake Bay threatens crabs, oysters, other life by Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, Oct 5, 2017
• Science, religion aren't in opposition when it comes to climate change, Opinion by Chris Werle, Hattiesburg American, Oct 8, 2017
• At least 11 dead as fires rage in Northern California by Madison Park & Ralph Ellis, CNN, Oct 10, 2017
• How 4 a.m. chats persuaded Miami’s Republican mayor to care about sea-level rise by David Smiley, Miami Herald, Oct 6, 2017
• Warming Oceans May Make ‘Nemo’ Harder to Find by Craig Welch, National Geographic, Oct 10, 2017
• E.P.A. Says It Will Write a New Carbon Rule, but No One Can Say When by Lisa Friedman, Climate, New York Times, Oct 10, 2017
• Are Electric Vehicles Pushing Oil Demand Over a Cliff? by Erica Gies, InsideClimate News, Oct 10, 2017

Wed Oct 11, 2017

• IMF tells rich nations that greater urgency needed on climate change by Gareth Hutchens, Guardian, Oct 10, 2017
• Tony Abbott's climate change claims just don't stack up by Andrew P Street, ABC News, Oct 10. 2017
• How will climate change hurt our ocean species? Scientists investigate by Jami Morton, New Zealand Herald, Oct 8, 2017
• How California's firestorm spread so mind-bogglingly fast: From 'Diablo' winds to climate trends by Andrew Freedman, Mashable, Oct 10, 2017
• New EPA document reveals sharply lower estimate of the cost of climate change by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 11, 2017
• Coal War Games: How Pruitt and Perry are Working the System to Save Dirty Energy by John H Cushman Jr, InsideClimate News, Oct 10, 2017
• Coal Boss Takes Climate Change Denial to the Extreme by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Oct 11, 2017
• Despite Trump, American companies are still investing in renewable energy by John Abraham, Climate Consensus - the 97%, Guardian, Oct 11, 2017

Thu Oct 12, 2017

• What Dead Birds Tell Us about Climate Change by Chelsea Harvey, Climate Wire/Scientific American, Oct 11, 2017
• A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica by Kate Lunau, Motherboard, Oct 10. 2017
• Worrying new research finds that the ocean is cutting through a key Antarctic ice shelf by Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 11, 2017
• Evacuations widened as Northern California wildfires spread to 170,000 acres with at least 23 dead by Louis Sahagun, Paige St. John, Panzar & Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times, Oct 12, 2017
• Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit, Guest Post by Joeri Rogelj & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Carbon Brief, Oct 10, 2017
• October 2017 ENSO update: Still watching for La Niña by Emily Becker, NOAA's Climate.gov. Oct 12, 2017
• Weather-company chief is Trump's pick to lead climate agency by Jeff Tollefson, Nature, Oct 12, 2017
• Conflicts of Interest? NOAA’s Nominees AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers, and Dr. Neil Jacobs of Panasonic by Andrew Rosenberg, Union of Concerned Scientists, Oct 12, 2017

Fri Oct 13, 2017

• The climate-change fire alarm from Northern California, Opinion by Editorial Board, Los Angeles, Times, Oct 12, 2017
• Hurricane Irma, global warming and the bomb: comparing energy giants by Barry Saxifrage, National Observer, Oct 11, 2017
• How Deep Ocean Wind Turbines Could Power the World by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Oct 12, 2017
• UK releases plan to ‘lead the world’ on growth with carbon cuts by Megan Darby, Climate Home, Oct 12, 2017
• AP-NORC Poll: Americans blame wild weather on global warming by Seth Borensein & Emily Swanson, AP, Oct 12, 2017
• Trump taps climate skeptic for top White House environmental post by Brady Dennis & Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 13, 2017
• Scientists See Climate Change in California's Wildfires by Debra Kahn & Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News/Scientific American, Oct 12, 2017
• Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests by Sue Branford & Maurício Torres, Mongabay, Oct 11, 2017

Sat Oct 14, 2017

• Penguin disaster as only two chicks survive from colony of 40,000 by Michael Slezak, Guardian,Oct 13, 2017
• UK climate change plan branded a 'blueprint for under-achievement' by Lizzy Buchan, The Independent, Oct 13, 2017
• SkS Analogy 10 - Bathtubs and Budgets by Evan & jg, Skeptical Science, Oct 12, 2017
• Not True that Hunger Doesn’t Discriminate — It Does by Baher Kamal, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 13, 2017
• New research, October 2-8, 2017 by Ari Jokimäki, Skeptical Science, Sep 6, 2017
• GAO to probe whether Trump administration is protecting agencies’ scientific integrity by Juliet Eilperin, Energy & Environment, Washington Post, Oct 11, 2017

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