Missed an item this week? Review the news and posts covered by Climate State during the week 28, 2014.

July 7, 2014

• Bad news about rising sea levels as quickening Antarctic winds lead to faster ice melt
• New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt
• Rose-colored glasses: Antarctic sea ice is the Mail on Sunday’s latest global warming distraction
• Wikipedia: Antarctic sea ice
• South Asia slow to act on water threats
• Will Super Typhoon Neoguri Threaten Japan’s Nuclear Plants?
• Floating nuclear plants: Is the future of nuclear offshore?
• The Chilling Reality of the Climate Challenge
• Factcheck: What’s the significance of a record high in Antarctic sea ice?
• How ‘Ionic Liquids’ Could Keep Factories from Belching Carbon Dioxide
• The Incredible Thing About Whale Poop Is That It Fights Climate Change
• We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests
• Study reveals strong links between Antarctic climate, food web
• IBM to work to curb China pollution
• Study: Over 40% Of Climate Costs Due To US And EU
• Major Historic Eruptions Cooled Earth Less Than Thought
• Energy efficiency targets: what are they good for?
• Canada Struggles with Melting Permafrost as Climate Warms
• New type of soot particle discovered from wildfire emissions
• Greenland melt may have pushed sea level six meters higher in the past
• Lake Mead, Nation’s Largest Reservoir, To Reach Record Low This Week
• Super Typhoon Neoguri: 5 Stormy Facts
• Climate Change Gets Up Close and Personal
• Former Vice President Al Gore Headlines Sustainability Conference
• Super Typhoon Neoguri Lashing Okinawa, Headed for Japan
• Siemens, Wave Hub, and Minesto winners in latest wave and tidal leasing round
• Tony Abbott’s government is ‘recklessly endangering’ the future on climate, says UK chief
• Amazon rainforest grew after climate change 2,000 years ago: study

July 8, 2014

• Picking Lesser of Two Climate Evils
• New Report Outlines ‘Pathways’ to Cut CO2 Emissions
• Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding?
• Study links oilsands pollution to higher cancer rates
• Satellites reveal possible catastrophic flooding months in advance, UCI finds
• Exclusive: Environment Secretary turned down offer of a briefing on climate change from the Met Office
• World’s Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
• Do You Live in the Blast Zone of an Exploding Oil Train?
• Record levels of solar ultraviolet measured in South America
• Logging and burning cause the loss of 54 million tons of carbon a year in Amazonia
• Great Lakes welcome rising water levels
• Australia facing ‘unprecedented rise in climate denial’
• Singapore outlines plans to fine foreign air polluters
• French Foreign Minister launches attack against fossil fuels
• US and China set for latest climate change discussions
• How much water and air sustains the Earth?
• Chevron Admits The Truth: Oil Shale Will Use Huge Amounts Of Western Water
• Please Feed The Animals: Drought Forces Kenya’s National Parks To Feed Wildlife
• One Year Later, Site Of Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Crash ‘Still Very Much One Of Horror’
• Bay Area governments make big electric-vehicle buy
• Cracks emerge in Europe’s fracking future as Germany proposes seven-year ban
• Climate science denier group must pay damages for frivolous lawsuit against UVA, scientist
• Facebook: ClimateState Deutschland
• Carbon clean-up needs energy revolution, leaders told
• England ‘exposed’ to climate risks
• Deutsche Bank lends $US1 billion in Japan’s solar gold rush

July 9, 2014

• Renewable Energy Provided One-Third Of Germany’s Power In The First Half Of 2014
• Climate scientists tell us why it’s “utterly, utterly normal” to have a paper rejected
• Fabien Cousteau Uses Adventure to Reveal ‘Alarming’ Deep-Sea Discoveries
• Unprecedented UV Storms Are a Possible Climate Change Future
• Swimming, climbing robots explore the hostile Arctic
• Neoguri super-typhoon in Japan is El Niño harbinger
• Environment and Civilisation, Anuta vs Easter Island
• Study: Antarctic Winds Create New Sea Level Threat
• NASA Creates Global Maps Of Soil Moisture
• UN presents ‘shopping list’ for 2015 climate deal
• Climate change: Tropical species are most vulnerable to rising temperatures
• Polar bears from space: Satellite imagery a promising tool to monitor arctic polar bears
• Who wins, who loses if the carbon tax goes?
• Heat Waves Could Triple Premature Deaths In Britain By 2050
• Oxnard cites sea level rise in fight against coastal power plant
• What the fossil fuel industry thinks of the ‘carbon bubble’
• Elon Musk CNBC Interview About Being a Disruptor
• Critics refute assets claim by ‘Orwellian’ Shell
• Chinese manufacturer renews two-bladed wind turbine design
• Enjoy your coffee – you may soon not be able to afford it
• Poland threat to EU 2030 climate ambition – Davey
• By 2100, New York Will Be as Hot as Southwest Florida
• Shipping Firms to Add Arctic LNG Route

July 10, 2014

• Australia’s epic scheme to farm its northern wilds
• Rossby waves and surface weather extremes
• What’s the Mystery Behind West Antarctica’s Disappearing Ice?
• 207 cities identify climate change risks
• Abbott blow as Senate votes to delay carbon tax axe
• Three meetings, five days: global climate diplomacy push kicks off
• Modi pledges new money for climate action in first budget
• Climate change may bring more kidney stones
• Gravity satellites could provide warning months ahead of floods
• Parents Blast Climate Denial In Schools: ‘You Have To Teach Real Science’
• Watch How Solar Power Is Transforming Rural India
• Science Is Golden: ‘Cosmos’, ‘Years Of Living Dangerously’ Garner Multiple Emmy Nominations
• No False Choices: To Preserve A Livable Climate, We Need To Slash Both CO2 And Methane ASAP
• Weirdest Things Found in Glaciers, Ice
• Loss of Snowpack and Glaciers In Rockies Poses Water Threat
• Climate change solution: Scrap subsidies, fund innovation
• Circular economy: Just a load of rubbish?
• Cities and businesses prepare for the threat climate change poses to water
• El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
• Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2
• THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community—Trailer

July 11, 2014

• Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away
• Photos From Fires In The Northwest Territories Are Apocalyptic
• Cold Snap in July: Will the Real Polar Vortex Please Stand Up?
• Parched Texas Town Turns to Treated Sewage as Emergency Drinking Water Source
• Precipitation, not warming temperatures, may be key in bird adaptation to climate change
• Coastal flooding has surged along US east coast: Reuters study
• Group Representing Half A Billion Christians Says It Will No Longer Support Fossil Fuels
• ‘Surreal’ 40-Minute Storm Drowns Minor League Baseball Field
• Community seed banks in Ethiopia tackle climate-induced food crisis
• Poor water management is leaving South Asia vulnerable to climate change
• Poll: Voters prefer pro-wind farm MPs
• NOMADD robots clean Saudi solar panels without using a drop of water
• Why Isn’t Smog-Gobbling Concrete More Popular?
• 10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT RENEWABLE ENERGY
• Smoke from Canada Moves South

July 12, 2014

• Why the next climate treaty is vital for my country to survive
• KMMS AM Interview with David Titley
• Time history of atmospheric carbon dioxide (2013 data)

July 13, 2014

• Jimmy Stewart on Solar Energy: 1938
• London, B’ham, Leeds will not get clean air until after 2030
• The invention of solar power, explained 1954
• Changing the dialogue on energy and climate
• Climate Change explained 1958, The Bell Telephone Science Hour
• The state of Antarctic glacier melting
• Rupert Murdoch: How to react to climate change? (2014)
• Oil and gas wells are leaking greenhouse gas
• Ice Cores what they reveal and how deniers distort the data
• Southern Australia faces water crisis by end of century due to climate change