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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45
Posted on 9 November 2025 by BaerbelW, Doug Bostrom
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 2, 2025 thru Sat, November 8, 2025.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Change Impacts (6 articles)
- Revisiting The Category 6 Conversation After Hurricane Melissa Forbes, Marshall Shepherd, Nov 1, 2025.
- Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up A major insurer is warning Australians to expect rising home insurance premiums, in part due to increasingly frequent and damaging weather events. Australian Broadcasting Corp., Samuel Yang and Yiying Li, Nov 03, 2025.
- The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move The climate crisis is causing the permafrost to melt in Alaska, forcing the village of Nunapitchuk to relocate The Guardian, Ismael M Belkoura, Amalia Huot-Marchand, Leonardo Pini and Athan Yanos in Nunapitchuk, Alaska, Nov 03, 2025.
- Deadly in the Rivers in the Sky There are invisible rivers streaming across the sky — massive plumes of moisture borne over the oceans and wafted across the continents. Washington Post, Ben Noll, Sarah Kaplan, Niko Kommenda, Kevin Crowe and John Muyskens, Nov 3, 2025.
- I covered Antarctica’s melt for a decade. How I think about the risk We don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. We definitely don’t know that it’s no big deal. ReportEarth, Chris Mooney, Nov 7, 2025.
- The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer | Editorial The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica The Guardian, Editorial, Nov 07, 2025.
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (6 articles)
- Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say. Grist, Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report, Nov 02, 2025.
- `If you ignore emissions, we did great`: Germany`s challenging fight to go green While still on track to meet net zero commitments, climate groups say country’s toughest hurdles are yet to come The Guardian, Ajit Niranjan, Nov 02, 2025.
- Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN says All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future warming, a new United Nations report finds. AP News, Seth Borenstein & Melissa Walding, Nov 4, 2025.
- We`re losing the EV race because we still think it`s about the environment There’s more than one way to go green, but instead of focusing on the electric vehicle as a breakthrough technology, Washington framed it as an environmental issue — one that remains politically divisive. TheHill, Channing Lee, Nov 05, 2025.
- On the Gates climate memo The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Nov 05, 2025.
- Climate Scientist Responds to Bill Gates ClimateAdam on Youtube, Adam Levy, Nov 5, 2025.
International Climate Conferences and Agreements (5 articles)
- Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the `global goal on adaptation` Nearly a decade on from the Paris Agreement, there is still not an agreed way to measure progress towards its “global goal on adaptation” (GGA). Carbon Brief, Molly Lempriere, Nov 03, 2025.
- How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action The Guardian, Nina Lakhani, Nov 07, 2025.
- How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5°C Phys.org, Amy Cano Prentice, The Conversation, Nov 08, 2025.
- Researcher sees ‘a lot of backsliding on climate commitments’ since 2015 Paris conference Phys.org, Åsa Malmberg, Uppsala University, Nov 08, 2025.
- Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: Here’s what to expect at this year’s COP30 global climate talks The Conversation, Jacqueline Peel, Nov 08, 2025.
Climate Science and Research (3 articles)
- Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’ scientists warn Phys.org, Ian James, Nov 01, 2025.
- `Grim future` for Great Barrier Reef unless global heating kept to 2C, study finds University of Queensland modelling says reef will suffer ‘rapid coral decline’ in coming decades but could still recover if targets met The Guardian, Graham Readfearn, Nov 05, 2025.
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #45 2025 124 articles in 54 journals by 739 contributing authors Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Nov 06, 2025.
Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (3 articles)
- Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process The Guardian, Geoff Dembicki, Nov 03, 2025.
- Fact brief – Does cold weather disprove human-caused climate change No – The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this. by Sue Bin Park, Skeptical Science, Nov 04, 2025
- Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer Skeptical Science, Dana Nuccitelli, Nov 05, 2025.
Climate Policy and Politics (2 articles)
Miscellaneous (2 articles)
- 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44 A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 26, 2025 thru Sat, November 1, 2025. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Nov 02, 2025.
- Revealed: Prince William`s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog, TJ Jordan, Nov 03, 2025.
Climate Education and Communication (1 article)
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