http://westcoastclimateequity.org Climate science and climate change information - West Coast Climate Equity is dedicated to providing facts about the causes of climate change and the evidence for global warming. We report the latest climate science news, information, research and studies to educate about the true impact of dangerous climate change on our world. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:35:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:13:05 +0000 Greenfyre http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7795 “A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010) This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club of California in downtown San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/11/05/human-species-at-risk-because-of-climate-change-denial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=human-species-at-risk-because-of-climate-change-denial http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/11/05/human-species-at-risk-because-of-climate-change-denial/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:42:14 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6729 Two new articles, "Inaction on Climate Change Putting Decades of Human Progress at Risk" and "Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?"

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/11/05/human-species-at-risk-because-of-climate-change-denial/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/02/merchants-of-doubt-misuse-science-to-mislead-the-public/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=merchants-of-doubt-misuse-science-to-mislead-the-public http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/02/merchants-of-doubt-misuse-science-to-mislead-the-public/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:54:29 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6407 A dark ideology is driving those who deny climate change People who claim that climate science is a conspiracy or the work of charlatans are talking rubbish by Robin McKie The Observer, August 1, 2010 Cross-posted from BC-SEA News Life can be hard in Moscow. The Russian capital is sweltering in temperatures that reached a [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/02/merchants-of-doubt-misuse-science-to-mislead-the-public/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/22/a-great-champion-in-the-battle-to-save-our-planet-has-died/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-great-champion-in-the-battle-to-save-our-planet-has-died http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/22/a-great-champion-in-the-battle-to-save-our-planet-has-died/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:02:00 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6320 Video of the late Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist speaking on "Is the Science Settled." Professor Schneider "for decades built the case that global warming, while laden with complexity, justified an aggressive response," died of a heart attack on July 19. He was 65.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/22/a-great-champion-in-the-battle-to-save-our-planet-has-died/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/07/paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/07/paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:31:29 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6215 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed in this report support the tenets of ACC outlined by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/07/paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/01/the-rachel-maddow-show-march-31-climate-change-denial-brought-to-you-by-the-koch-brothers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rachel-maddow-show-march-31-climate-change-denial-brought-to-you-by-the-koch-brothers http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/01/the-rachel-maddow-show-march-31-climate-change-denial-brought-to-you-by-the-koch-brothers/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:32:33 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5449 Climate Change Denial, Brought to You by the Koch Brothers. Jim Hoggan, co-founder of the DeSmog Blog, discusses how the oil and gas industry's massive efforts to direct the climate change debate have "poisoned" public discussion on the issue.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/01/the-rachel-maddow-show-march-31-climate-change-denial-brought-to-you-by-the-koch-brothers/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/01/bill-mckibben-the-attack-on-climate-change-science/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bill-mckibben-the-attack-on-climate-change-science http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/01/bill-mckibben-the-attack-on-climate-change-science/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:46:53 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5047 “In early 2009,” writes Bill McKibben in a soon-to-be-published new book, “just as Obama was getting set to unveil his energy plans, word came that 2,340 lobbyists had registered to work on climate change on Capitol Hill (that’s about six per congressman), 85 percent of them devoted to slowing down progress.” By early 2010, you can see the results of such efforts, multiplied many times over by the staggering levels of support available for anti-climate-change work from the richest industry on the planet: the energy business. All this was not helped, of course, by the much hyped “climate-gate” which proved that climate-change scientists were fallible human beings and not simply extraterrestrial super-brains. These “scandals” were, in turn, blown up to proportions that seemed to blot out the very image of the disappearing Arctic icepack. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the latest poll on the American public’s attitude toward climate change shows startling drops in the belief in the very existence of climate change, in humanity's role in causing it, and in its import for the planet: a 14-point drop since October 2008 in Americans who believe climate change is happening at all (to 57%), a 10-point drop in those who believe that human activity is at the root of the problem (to 47%), and a 13-point drop in those who claim to be “somewhat” or “very” worried about the problem (to 50%). What’s strangest in all this is that the evidence for our changing planet seems to stare us in the face -- from the previously mythical, now navigable Northwest Passage to melting glaciers just about everywhere to more intense storms (including, of course, more intense snowstorms because, despite the name “global warming,” no one has yet banished winter from the planet). What makes this sadder yet is that, if the U.S. refuses to deal with our planet’s health and well-being (and ours), everything becomes so much harder, so much less likely. If you want to put all of this into some reasonable perspective, when you’ve finished Bill McKibben’s latest piece, think about ordering his new book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (to be published this April). The title is unsettling -- especially for an editor, with those two “a”s in Eaarth -- and the book more so, but it’s not without hope and it could be the necessary guide to, and text for, the new planet with ever quirkier weather on which, after so many thousands of years, we humans suddenly find ourselves.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/01/bill-mckibben-the-attack-on-climate-change-science/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/20/where-in-the-world-is-the-worst-place-for-cold-weather/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-in-the-world-is-the-worst-place-for-cold-weather http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/20/where-in-the-world-is-the-worst-place-for-cold-weather/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:29:59 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4236 The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/20/where-in-the-world-is-the-worst-place-for-cold-weather/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:21:18 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4179 It's easy for people in Russia, England and on the eastern coast of the US, with the severe winter conditions they're experiencing, to forget that on other parts of our Planet are feeling the heat of dangerous climate change. What we should remember is that what we're witnessing is not so much "Global Warming," or even "Climate Change," but "Global Climatic Disruption," the term coined by President Obama's chief science advisor John Holdren.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/30/watch-ross-gelbspans-great-and-profound-new-video-at-climate-progress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watch-ross-gelbspans-great-and-profound-new-video-at-climate-progress http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/30/watch-ross-gelbspans-great-and-profound-new-video-at-climate-progress/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:16:11 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4172 Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan has a new video out — and is very much interested in your feedback on it. Please click here to get to the ClimateProgress site and post your own comment. There are over 90 comments to read, most of them very useful, some truly inspiring. And Ross is responding personally to many of them. Something important is beginning to happen here, and we may all want to be part of it.

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