2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #11

Posted on 16 March 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom, John Hartz

A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 9, 2025 thru Sat, March 15, 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 Policy and Politics (10 articles)

• `We`re losing our environmental history`: The future of government information under Trump  The administration’s wrecking-ball approach has raised profound questions about the integrity and future of vast amounts of information. by Jessica McKenzie, Buelltin of the Atomic Scientists, Mar 05, 2025
• Science, Politics and Anxiety Mix at Rally Under Lincoln Memorial  Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts by Alan Burdick, Climate, New York Times, Mar 8, 2025
• Energy Secretary Makes Clear Trump ‘Ready to Sacrifice’ Communities and Climate  “As Wright speaks to industry insiders, members of impacted communities, faith leaders, youth, and others are assembling for a ‘March for Future Generations,'” one campaigner said of the action at CERAWeek. by Jessica Corbett , Common Dreams, Mar 10, 2025
• NASA fires chief scientist, more Trump cuts to come   by AFP, Phys.org, Mar 12, 2025
• EPA considers pulling scientific study that shaped modern climate policy  The 2009 scientific finding says carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health by Julia Musto, The Independent News, Mar 12, 2025
• Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas  The US president is making energy deals with Japan and Ukraine, and in Africa has even touted resurrecting coal by Oliver Milman & Dharna Noor, US News, The Guardian, Mar 12, 2025
• We need NOAA now more than ever   by Guest authors: Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel, & Lance Bosart, RealClimate, Mar 13, 2025
• EPA Freezes, Then Terminates, Multi-Billion Dollar Climate Grants, Scuttling Projects and Triggering Lawsuits  The lawsuits could take months, if not years, to resolve, experts say, leaving green banks, clean energy startups and low-income communities in financial limbo. by Aman Azhar, Justice & Health, Inside Climate News, Mar 13, 2025
• Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution  The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. by Scott Dance, Washington Post, Mar 14, 2025
• A foundational climate regulation is under threat   Trump’s EPA claims that climate change isn’t a danger to human beings by Umair Irfan , Climate, Vox, Mar 04, 2025

Climate Change Impacts (8 articles)

• February 2025: record low global sea ice cover  The global sea ice extent reached a new all-time minimum for February according to the latest monthly update of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Arctic sea ice saw its lowest monthly extent for February at 8% below average and the Antarctic sea ice was 26% below average and the fourth-lowest sea ice extent on the dataset*, going back to 1978. Globally, February 2025 was the third warmest February on record after February 2024 and February 2016. by Staff, Monthly Climate Bulletin, Copernicus Climate Change Service , Mar6, 2025
• Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks  Damage to trees in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene was ‘extraordinary and humbling’ but urban areas face particular problems by Nina Lakhani with photos by Thalia Juarez, US News, Mar 9, 2025
• Study says climate change will even make Earth’s orbit a mess  A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too by Seth Borenstein, The Independent News, Mar 10, 2025
• Factcheck: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common   by Zeke Hausfather, Fact Checks, Carbon Brief, Mar 10, 2025
• ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals  Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped by Damian Carrington, Environment, The Guardian, Mar 11, 2025
• The Arctic is in trouble. The consequences will be felt around the world   by Laura Paddison, Climate, CNN, Mar 12, 2025
• February 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest February on record  The El Niño-influenced temperature surge of 2023-24 may be abating, but temperatures are still significantly higher than any year prior to the mid-2010s. by Jeff Masters, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Mar 12, 2025
• Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth. Soon it will mess up its orbit  Global warming’s effects are even stretching into space by Seth Borenstein, AP News/The Independent , Mar 13, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (4 articles)

• What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump`s energy secretary  Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference  by Dharna Noor, The Guardian, Mar 10, 2025
• Heartland Institute UK Chief: Group Is Influencing Trump Policy `at the Highest Level`  The climate science denial group, which has been trying to make inroads into Europe, claims it has “strong” ties to “big individuals” in the U.S. administration. by Sam Bright, DeSmog, Mar 13, 2025
• The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago  New research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized. by Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News, Mar 14, 2025
• Is waste heat from industrial activity the reason the planet is warming?   by Sue Bin Park, Skeptical Science, Mar 15, 2025

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (1 article)

International Climate Conferences and Agreements (1 arcticle)

Health Aspects of Climate Change (1 arcticle)

Miscellaneous (Other) (1 article)