2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38

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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38

Posted on 21 September 2025 by Baerbel W, John Hartz, Doug Bostrom

A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sunday, September 14, 2025 through Saturday, September 20, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Policy and Politics

• Sea Surface Temperatures Hit 97.7°F: One of the Highest Ever Recorded
  Newsweek, Jess Thomson, Aug 27, 2025.
• Millions of Australians at Risk from Rising Sea Levels and Heat Deaths to Soar, National Climate Risk Assessment Report Warns
  The Guardian, Dan Jervis-Bardy, Sep 15, 2025.
• Cascading, Compounding: Five Key Takeaways from Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment
  “From rising heat-related deaths to the environmental and economic cost of climate change, here’s what the landmark report warns.”
  Environment, The Guardian, Graham Readfearn, Sep 15, 2025.
• The Atlantic’s Remarkable 20-Day Quiet Period Finally Ends
  “Tropical Storm Gabrielle in the central Atlantic is the basin’s first tropical cyclone since Tropical Storm Fernand dissipated on August 28.”
  Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters & Bob Henson, Sep 17, 2025.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

• New Evidence for the Gateway: An Arctic Researcher Explains Yedoma, the Permafrost Keeping the Planet Livable
  “Everybody on Earth is dependent on the boreal forest shielding this permafrost from thawing.”
  Living on Earth/Inside Climate News, Interview by Jenni Doering, Sep 13, 2025.
• Climate Change is Accelerating, Scientists Find in ‘Grim’ Report
  They warn that humanity is just three years from overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target, with seas rising faster than ever. But the report also contains a little bit of good news.
  Yale Climate Connections, Dana Nuccitelli, Sep 15, 2025.
• IEA Reiterates No New Oil and Gas Needed if Global Warming is Limited to 1.5°C
  “The world would not need to invest in new oil and gas projects if demand for the fuels fell in line with the 1.5°C limit on global warming,” says the International Energy Agency.

Fact Brief

Has the Greenhouse Effect Been Falsified? No.
The greenhouse effect is basic physics that has been known for nearly 200 years. Without it, the Earth would not be warm enough for life.

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