2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10

Posted on 9 March 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz

A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 2, 2025 thru Sat, March 8, 2025.

This week’s roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. 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 and number of articles shared:

Climate Change Impacts (13 articles)

• Australia’s second-hottest summer in 2024-25 ‘not possible without climate change’, scientist says  2024-25 summer at 1.89C above long-term average ‘will be one of the coolest in the 21st century’, according to one expert by Graham Readfearn, Australia News, The Guardian, Mar 1, 2025
• Weather tracker: six cyclones swirl simultaneously in southern hemisphere  Bianca, Garance and Honde churn across Indian Ocean as Alfred, Rae and Seru spin through south-west Pacific by Staff, Australia News, The Guardian, Feb 28, 2025
• Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn  Regulators extended the life of two of the oldest US reactors in Miami. Millions of people in the area are now vulnerable by Richard Luscombe , US News, The Guardian, Mar 1, 2025
• Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future  Melting Antarctic ice is releasing cold, fresh water into the ocean, which is projected to cause the slowdown by Petra Stock, Environment, Mar 3, 2025
• Half of global croplands could see a drop in suitable crops at 2C of warming  More than half of global cropland areas could see a decline in the number of suitable crops under a warming scenario of 2C, new research finds.  by Yanine Quiroz, Carbon Brief, Mar 04, 2025
• ‘Unusually strong’ storms bring risk of tornadoes and flash floods to US south  Powerful thunderstorms likely to sweep through Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama by Nina Lakhani, US News, The Guardian, Mar 4, 2025
• Carolina wildfires followed months of weather whiplash, from drought to hurricane-fueled floods and back to drought  Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in early March 2025 as strong winds, abnormally dry conditions and low humidity combined to kindle and spread the flames. by Lauren Lowman & Nick Corak, The Conversation, Mar 05, 2025
• Is climate change supercharging Tropical Cyclone Alfred as it powers towards Australia?  Cyclone Alfred formed in the Coral Sea towards the end of February when sea surface temperatures were almost 1C hotter than usual by Graham Readfearn, Australia News, Mar 5, 2025
• Major banana exporters could face `60% drop` in growing area due to warming  Large-scale banana plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean could face a “dramatic” reduction in “suitable” growing area by 2080 due to rising temperatures, a new study warns. by Ayesha Tandon, Carbon Brief, Mar 06, 2025
• Cranky Stepdad vs Hydrogen For Energy: How To Respond To Enthusiasts   by Michael Barnard, Clean Technica, Mar 05, 2025
• Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate  The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially dire implications. by Dino Grandoni, Climate, Washington Post, Mar 6, 2025
• New study reveals potential cause of a ‘drought’ in violent EF5 tornadoes  A quirky aspect of the way we measure twisters helps explain why there hasn’t been a top-tier-rated tornado in 12 years. by Bob Henson, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Mar 7, 2025
• Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming  Large-scale banana plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean could face a “dramatic” reduction in “suitable” growing area by 2080 due to rising temperatures, a new study warns. by Ayesha Tandon, Food & Farming, Carbon Brief, Mar 6, 2025

Climate Policy and Politics (8 articles)

• Trump, EPA Aim to Remove Finding That Mandates Action on Greenhouse Gas Pollution  Experts expect Trump’s team to lean on legal arguments, not science, to take down EPA’s 16-year-old endangerment finding. by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, Mar 02, 2025
• Trump fired hundreds at NOAA, Weather Service. Here’s what that means for forecasts.  Current and former agency officials and lawmakers said the cuts could have major impacts on Americans and the economy, compromising important functions. by Scott Dance & Kasha Patel, Weather, Washington Post, Mar 1, 2025
• Trump Official Who Tried to Downplay Major Climate Report Now Will Oversee It  Stuart Levenbach alarmed scientists years ago when he attempted to meddle with a congressionally mandated climate report by Scott Waldman & E&E News, Scientific American, Mar 03, 2025
• Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health  New survey also shows growing trust in scientists and health professionals as the federal government slashes resources for climate and health research and interventions. by Keerti Gopal, Justice & Health, Inside Climate News, Mar 4, 2025
• NOAA Hurricane Hunter layoffs threaten to degrade hurricane forecasts  A gap in flight director staffing could keep the planes earthbound at crucial times.  by Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections, Mar 06, 2025
• Scientists Are Rising Up to Resist Trump Policies  March 7 demonstrations across the U.S. and Europe will protest cuts to research, staffing and funding, and push for a continued federal focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. by Bob Berwyn, Science, Inside Climate News, Mar 6, 2025
• ‘Stand Up for Science’ draws thousands to D.C. with calls to reverse research cuts  The Stand Up for Science rallies are a response to the Trump administration’s actions, which critics see as a threat to scientific progress. by Richard Sima, Ellie Silverman, Scott Dance & Carolyn Y. Johnson, Science, Washington Post, Mar 7, 2025
• US Coast Guard Academy Censors `Climate Change` From Its Curriculum  The terminology will be stricken in classes for future officers in a service that confronts global warming every day, a move some say will weaken it by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, Mar 07, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (2 articles)

Climate Science and Research (2 articles)

Climate Education and Communication (2 articles)

Miscellaneous (Other) (2 articles)

• 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #09  A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 23, 2025 thru Sat, March 1, 2025. by Bärbel Winkler, Doug Bostrom & John Hartz, Skeptical Science, Mar 02, 2025
• Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws  Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators by Patrick Greenfield & Phoebe Weston, Environment, The Guardian, Mar 5, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 articles)

Climate law and justice (1 article)

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (1 arcticle)