Weekend Reading on Climate Change - 13 May 2016

​A selection of great reading on climate change politics, policy, innovation and science from Climate Reality Leader Andrew Woodward. @climatecomm and www.climatecommunication.net

Must see
The Conversation: How Scared or Hopeful Should We Be in a Warming World?
Washington Post: This scientist just changed how we think about climate change with one GIF
 
Great Barrier Reef
ABC: More corals die in northern Great Barrier Reef
ABC: Next term of government will seal Great Barrier Reef's fate, report warns
Guardian: Great Barrier Reef: tourism operators urge Australian government to tackle climate change
 
Australian Election
Climate Change News: Climate change lurks as Turnbull bids to extend Australia mandate
Renew Economy: Labor cites climate, solar and storage in budget reply, reopens door for ARENA funding
Renew Economy: Election off to bad start, but Sex Party supports clean energy
Guardian: Malcolm Turnbull: Labor's climate targets will destroy Australia's bargaining power
The Conversation: Carbon taxes, emissions trading and electricity prices: making sense of the scare campaigns
 
Other Climate Communication Publications
Responsibility Plus Bulletin (Edition 10 May)
This Week in Climate Change (Edition 12 May)
Previous editions of Weekend Reading in Climate Change (Edition 6 May 2016)
 
Economics
Triple Pundit: How Technology is Fighting Climate Change
 
Energy
Climate Institute: "Heroic" assumptions in new government Energetics report
Climate Institute: A Switch in Time
Renew Economy: Queensland releases issues paper for 50% renewables target
 
Impacts
CNN: Canada fires look like climate change
EcoNews: City flooding, rainfall extremes to rise as climate changes
Grist: Climate change is already disrupting societies. A new study doesn’t let us forget it
Guardian: Obama administration warns of ‘climate refugees’ due to rapid Arctic warming
Guardian: Australia quietly adds 49 species to threatened and endangered lists
Guardian: Air pollution: how does it affect you?
World Resources Institute: WRI Says New EPA Methane Standards Will Encourage Industry To Put in Place Low-Cost Safeguards
 
Politics and policy
Climate Change News: UN climate officials release negotiation plan through 2018
Guardian: Greg Hunt: no definite link between coal from Adani mine and climate change
Friends of the Earth: Letter to Australian Prime Minister on charitable status of environmental organisations
New York Times: New York Plans to Make Fighting Climate Change Good Business
Scientific American: Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Combat Climate Change
Sydney Morning Herald: CSIRO chief Larry Marshall's reappointment agreed by Turnbull government but not made public
Union of Concerned Scientists USA: US Must Do More to Meet Paris Climate Change Commitments
United Nations: At climate summit in Washington, UN officials call to take action ‘to the next level’
Vox: Rich countries have pledged billions in climate aid. Why has progress been so slow?
 
Marketing, communication and advocacy
Canberra Times: Four climate myths busted
PSY Post: Psychological link found between climate change denial and belief in free market economics
Think Progress: Scientists May Have Found The Key To Motivating People To Act On Climate Change
 
Opinion
Guardian: Elon Musk: 'We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry’
 
Science
Carbon Brief: Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
Huffington Post: 'Unusually' Thin And Fractured Arctic Ice Hints At Yet Another Record Melt
 
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