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/2011/11/17/climate-change-media-coverage-and-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-change-media-coverage-and-you http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/11/17/climate-change-media-coverage-and-you/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:07:56 +0000 Greenfyre http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7514 Taken together the stories underscore how vital it is that we pressure media and their advertisers to provide significantly more climate coverage. Further, that they must strive to make the coverage factual and accurate by stopping the farce of "providing balance" to the incoherent ideologues who manufacture claims of scientific controversy, except for the purpose of exposing their frauds and corporate funding.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/11/17/climate-change-media-coverage-and-you/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/long-term-effects-of-global-warming-will-be-far-worse-than-gulf-of-mexico-catastrophe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=long-term-effects-of-global-warming-will-be-far-worse-than-gulf-of-mexico-catastrophe http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/long-term-effects-of-global-warming-will-be-far-worse-than-gulf-of-mexico-catastrophe/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:09:37 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6166 Although the BP oil spill seriously threatens those who live along the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. intransigence on climate change threatens the entire world; a fact that is causing rising anger around the world. Yet the U.S. Congress continues to resist action on climate change on the basis that it will harm some U.S. economic interests, while ignoring our duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. fair share of safe global releases. For this reason, while the BP oil spill can be rightfully be understood as a disaster, U.S. Congressional inaction on climate change must be understood as a huge moral failure leading to an even greater disaster.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/long-term-effects-of-global-warming-will-be-far-worse-than-gulf-of-mexico-catastrophe/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/22/canadian-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-sues-national-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadian-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-sues-national-post http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/22/canadian-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-sues-national-post/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:05:40 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5781 Dr. Andrew Weaver, one of the most respected climate scientists in Canada and one of the best climate modelers inthe world, has launched a libel suit against the National Post newspaper and its publisher, editors and three writers: Terence Corcoran, Peter Foster and Kevin Libin. In the words of a news release broadcast today, the suit is for "a series of unjustified libels based on grossly irresponsible falsehoods that have gone viral on the Internet."

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/22/canadian-climate-scientist-andrew-weaver-sues-national-post/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/22/can-report-canadian-scientists-muzzled-by-harper-government/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-report-canadian-scientists-muzzled-by-harper-government http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/22/can-report-canadian-scientists-muzzled-by-harper-government/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:50:17 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5342 The scandal is growing at Environment Canada of how Canadian climate researchers are being “muzzled” by draconian policies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The Montreal Gazette has reported on a leaked document showing that the information restrictions brought in by the Harper government had severely restricted the media’s access to government researchers.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/22/can-report-canadian-scientists-muzzled-by-harper-government/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/17/solar-minimum-induced-global-cooling-dont-bet-on-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solar-minimum-induced-global-cooling-dont-bet-on-it http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/17/solar-minimum-induced-global-cooling-dont-bet-on-it/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:29:57 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5261 Will the media continue to ignore all the extreme weather that scientists have been predicting for years would become more common as we pour more heat trapping gases into the atmosphere? Given that we’ve only warmed about a degree Fahrenheit in the past half century and much of this country projected to warm 9°F or more on our current emissions path, it’s hard to imagine the kind of extreme weather we will ultimately be seen.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/17/solar-minimum-induced-global-cooling-dont-bet-on-it/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/13/audio-climatologist-professor-andrew-weaver-answers-questions-about-glaciergate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=audio-climatologist-professor-andrew-weaver-answers-questions-about-glaciergate http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/13/audio-climatologist-professor-andrew-weaver-answers-questions-about-glaciergate/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:44:13 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4873 Anna Maria Tremonti hosts CBC Radio’s “The Current“. Here’s her program for Wednesday, February 10th. Dorothy’s note: Click on “Listen to Part One,” which after some teasers and commentary, leads off with Tremonti in a challenging interview with Professor Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria, BC. She notes the erroneous IPCC prediction that by [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/13/audio-climatologist-professor-andrew-weaver-answers-questions-about-glaciergate/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.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/30/watch-ross-gelbspans-great-and-profound-new-video-at-climate-progress/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/01/a-debate-on-climate-change-the-most-important-topic-of-our-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-debate-on-climate-change-the-most-important-topic-of-our-time http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/01/a-debate-on-climate-change-the-most-important-topic-of-our-time/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:22:38 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4036 Be sure to watch Elizabeth May and George Monbiot debate Bjørn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson today beginning at 6:30 PM EST in Toronto.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/01/a-debate-on-climate-change-the-most-important-topic-of-our-time/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/26/the-deadly-game-of-climate-change-denial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-deadly-game-of-climate-change-denial http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/26/the-deadly-game-of-climate-change-denial/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:22:37 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3940 Part of the solution to climate denial is to provide information to people not just into the science of climate but the science of our minds. Currently, there are no social scientists on the IPCC, yet all the effort, time and expense of proving the science is wasted if it is falling on deaf ears. As Gifford remarks, “It’s not always about the data. People want their beliefs confirmed. And if that means, that the world is fine and things can go on as normal, then that’s what they’ll hear.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/26/the-deadly-game-of-climate-change-denial/feed/ 4 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/10/the-psa-moms-against-climate-change-how-and-why-it-was-made/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-psa-moms-against-climate-change-how-and-why-it-was-made http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/10/the-psa-moms-against-climate-change-how-and-why-it-was-made/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:24 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3892 PSA Moms Against Climate Change depicts a global warming demonstration by kids, which takes us back to the surreal nature of the whole issue -- that, based on the facts of climate change, this kind of action should be happening in our streets on a daily basis.

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