2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #09

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 Policy and Politics (17 articles)

• Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report   by Ella Nilsen & Laura Paddison, CNN, Climate, CNN, Feb 21, 2025
• US Cultural Revolution: Gutting of National Science Foundation & Its Climate Research   by Michael Barnard, CleanTechnica, Feb 22, 2025
• Project 2025: What environmental cutbacks has Trump made in a month and what’s next?  Trump is ‘erasing climate action’ within federal agencies and giving the green light to big polluters. by Staff, Euro News Green, Feb 20, 2025
• National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future  An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more by Brandon Vigliarolo, Science, The A Register, Feb 21, 2025
• Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites  The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said. by Karen Zraick, Climate, New York Times, Feb 24, 2025
• Boiling Point: Want to fight climate change? Then talk about climate change   by Sammy Roth, Climate & Environment, Los Angeles Times, Feb 25, 2025
• CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’   by by Simon Evans, Josh Gabbatiss & Molly Lempriere, Policy, Carbon Brief, Feb 26, 2025
• The far right just made huge gains in a country once seen as a climate champion. It’s a pattern happening across the world   by Laura Paddison, Climate, CNN, Feb 26, 2025
• Congress Set to Vote on Repeal of Biden Administration Climate Regulations   by Nicholas Kusnetz, Fossil Fuels, Inside Climate News, Feb 26, 2025
• EPA head urges Trump to reconsider scientific finding that underpins climate action, AP sources say   by Matthew Daly, AP News, Feb 26, 2025
• NOAA fires about 800 employees, with more possible Friday   by Ella Nilsen & Tami Luhby, CNN Politics, Feb 27, 2025
• Any fool can break things  Elon Musk is vandalizing America's greatest treasures by Bill McKibben, The Crucial Years, Feb 28, 2025
• Congress is reversing a tax on this climate superpollutant  The Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule requiring oil companies to pay a fine for emitting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas by Maxine Joselow, Climate, Washington Post, Feb 27, 2025
• A thank you note from China  they are thankful that we are turning over leadership of the 21st century to them by Andrew Dressler, The Climate Brink, Feb 28, 2025
• Who is Importing Donald Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda to Germany?  An investigation by CORRECTIV maps the influential axis of think tanks and politicians encouraging Europe to “drill baby drill”. by Annika Joeres, Elena Kolb & Katharina Huth, DeSmog International, Feb 21, 2025
• Experts Say Attempted Mass Firing of NOAA Workers May be Illegal and Threatens Public Safety  Weather forecasters, climate modelers, glacier scientists and crew members on research ships received termination emails, while a federal judge simultaneously ordered the Trump administration to rescind firing orders. by Bob Berwyn & Lauren Dalban, Inside Climate News, Mar 01, 2025
• Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn’t a danger, say just look around at the world   by Seth Borenstein, Climate, AP News, Feb 27, 2025

Climate Change Impacts (5 articles)

• ‘No one wants to pay $25 for breakfast’: US restaurants are cracking under inflation  It’s not just eggs, but coffee, orange juice and bacon, making life especially hard for diners, bakeries and brunch spots by Danielle Renwick, Environment, The Guardian, Feb 14, 2025
• Warming Arctic could force seabirds to new feeding grounds  Researchers are struggling to track shifting populations as ice conditions change.  by YCC Team, Yale Climate Connections, Feb 24, 2025
• Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see  Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising by Rik Myslewski, Science, The A Register, Feb 23, 2025
• How will media report on this new AMOC study?  Stefan Rahmstorf provides some context for a newly published study about the AMOC by Stefan Rahmstorf, RealClimate, Feb 26, 2025
• How Climate Change Puts the Safety of Drinking Water at Risk  Wildfires, floods, intense heat, droughts, and other extreme events fueled by climate change are threatening water systems in the U.S. and around the globe. Experts warn of the increasing threat of contamination and the need to improve infrastructure to keep drinking water safe. by Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360, Feb 27, 1943

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (3 articles)

• *WEBINAR RECORDING* Part 1: BUST or TRUST? The scientific consensus on climate change   by republicEn, Youtube, Feb 21, 2025
• Not just a river in Egypt   by Tamino, Open Mind, Feb 27, 2025
• Fact brief - Are high CO2 levels harmless because they also occurred in the past?   by Sue Bin Park, Skeptical Science, Mar 01, 2025

Climate education and communication (2 articles)

• Climate change education can survive four more years of climate change denial   by Glenn Branch, Climate Change, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Feb 18, 2025
• Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences   by Xiongzhi Wang, Kelly Fielding, Rebecca Colvin , Robyn Gulliver, and Winnifred Louis, The Conversation, Feb 24, 2025

Climate Science and Research (2 articles)

• Arctic Climate Collapse! This time it's REALLY flipped!!   by Dave Borlace, "Just have a Think!" on Youtube, Feb 23, 2025
• The National Hurricane Center set an all-time record for forecast accuracy in 2024  But the investments in hurricane research that led to the new record are threatened by proposed budget cuts. by Jeff Masters, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Feb 26, 2025

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (1 article)

• We may be able to trap climate pollution in ordinary rocks  Scientists say they have figured out how to transform rocks into something extraordinary: a high-tech, low-cost substance that can bend geologic time and help stall — or even reverse — planetary warming. by Dino Grandoni, Climate Solutions, Washington post, Feb 19, 2025

Health aspects of climate change (1 article)

• Any fool can break things, The Crucial Years, Bill McKibben. Elon Musk is vandalizing America's greatest treasures
• A thank you note from China, The Climate Brink, Andrew Dressler. they are thankful that we are turning over leadership of the 21st century to them

International Climate Conferences and Agreements (1 article)

• After US retreat, countries clash over who should make up Green Climate Fund shortfall  At this week’s board meeting, Germany and Sweden encouraged wealthier developing nations to step up – an idea rejected by Saudi Arabia by Matteo Civillini, Climate Home News, Feb 21, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 article)

• Does low-frequency noise from wind turbines cause 'wind turbine syndrome'?  Sabin 33 Rebuttal #17 - Does low-frequency noise from wind turbines cause 'wind turbine syndrome'? by Sabin Center Team, Skeptical Science, Feb 25, 2025

Miscellaneous (Other) (1 article)

• 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #08  A listing of 33 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 16, 2025 thru Sat, February 22, 2025. by Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom & John Hartz, Skeptical Science, Feb 23, 2025