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/2010/07/31/dr-james-hansens-report-from-norway-of-interest-to-canadians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-james-hansens-report-from-norway-of-interest-to-canadians http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/31/dr-james-hansens-report-from-norway-of-interest-to-canadians/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:20:52 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6382 Dr. James Hansen's experience in Norway, including a letter to the Prime Minister and the government response, have been posted to Dr. Hansen's website. He condemns the Norwegian government for supporting Statoil's development of the Canadian Tar Sands.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/31/dr-james-hansens-report-from-norway-of-interest-to-canadians/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/27/dr-james-hansens-proposal-the-peoples-climate-stewardship-act/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-james-hansens-proposal-the-peoples-climate-stewardship-act http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/27/dr-james-hansens-proposal-the-peoples-climate-stewardship-act/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:04:22 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5844 The People’s Climate Stewardship Act proposed by Dr. James Hansen calls for a “simple, honest” carbon fee, collected from fossil-fuel companies upon the first sale at the mine, wellhead or port of entry. The money collected via this fee would be distributed to the public as a monthly “dividend” or “green check.” Distributing all of the revenue equitably to households will ensure that families can afford the energy they need during the transition to a clean energy future, and it should help win public support for a rising carbon fee.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/27/dr-james-hansens-proposal-the-peoples-climate-stewardship-act/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/11/dr-james-hansen-says-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-threatens-the-lives-of-our-grandchildren/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-james-hansen-says-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-threatens-the-lives-of-our-grandchildren http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/11/dr-james-hansen-says-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-threatens-the-lives-of-our-grandchildren/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:49:06 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5545 The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel addiction, if unabated, threatens our children and grandchildren, and most species on the planet.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/11/dr-james-hansen-says-our-fossil-fuel-addiction-threatens-the-lives-of-our-grandchildren/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:13:11 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4550 The Earth has been in a period of rapid global warming for the past three decades. The assertion that the planet has entered a period of cooling in the past decade is without foundation. On the contrary, we find no significant deviation from the warming trend of the past three decades. Weather fluctuations exceed the magnitude of average global warming over the past half century. However, the perceptive person should be able to notice that climate is warming on decadal time scales. The global temperature trend over the past few decades has been strong enough that there is a noticeable “loading” of the climate dice that define the probability of unusually warm or cool seasons.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/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/2010/01/15/james-hansen-against-cap-and-trade-with-offsets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=james-hansen-against-cap-and-trade-with-offsets http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/15/james-hansen-against-cap-and-trade-with-offsets/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:11:43 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4207 The proposed climate bills in Congress are loaded with goodies for special financial and corporate interests. These bills would cheat the American public – again. Cap-and-trade was designed in part by Wall Street, which is eager to exploit a trading market expected to grow to two trillion dollars. The revolving door between Washington and Wall Street helped bring the scheme about. Yet Washington appears intent on choosing a path defined by corporate greed. Unless the public gets engaged, the present Administration may jam down the public’s throat just such an approach, which, it can be shown, is not a solution at all.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/15/james-hansen-against-cap-and-trade-with-offsets/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/25/a-holiday-gift-from-climate-scientist-james-hansen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-holiday-gift-from-climate-scientist-james-hansen http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/25/a-holiday-gift-from-climate-scientist-james-hansen/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:56:24 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4150 For new inspiration and knowledge, we would most like to recognise James Hansen, who with the publication of his book Storms of My Grandchildren has made climate science accessible and interesting to anyone with a high school education.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/25/a-holiday-gift-from-climate-scientist-james-hansen/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/the-physics-of-copenhagen-why-politics-as-usual-may-mean-the-end-of-civilization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-physics-of-copenhagen-why-politics-as-usual-may-mean-the-end-of-civilization http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/the-physics-of-copenhagen-why-politics-as-usual-may-mean-the-end-of-civilization/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:38:28 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4106 In Copenhagen, if the U.S. is willing to treat climate change as politics-as-usual, most of the other major players will simply follow suit. They'll sign some kind of paper in Denmark -- that became all but certain on Friday night when Obama announced he'd jet in for the meeting's close. European leaders and some environmental groups may then call it a “qualified success,” and on we will go through more years of negotiation. In the meantime, physics will continue to operate, permafrost will continue to thaw, sea ice to melt, drought to spread. It’s like nothing we’ve ever faced before -- and we’re facing it as if it’s just like everything else. That’s the problem.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/the-physics-of-copenhagen-why-politics-as-usual-may-mean-the-end-of-civilization/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/04/james-hansen-says-whole-approach-at-copenhagen-is-so-fundamentally-wrong-that-it-is-better-to-reassess-the-situation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=james-hansen-says-whole-approach-at-copenhagen-is-so-fundamentally-wrong-that-it-is-better-to-reassess-the-situation http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/04/james-hansen-says-whole-approach-at-copenhagen-is-so-fundamentally-wrong-that-it-is-better-to-reassess-the-situation/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:38:49 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4046 In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch. "I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it's a disaster track," said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/04/james-hansen-says-whole-approach-at-copenhagen-is-so-fundamentally-wrong-that-it-is-better-to-reassess-the-situation/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/30/a-message-from-james-hansen-on-hope-of-cutting-global-carbon-emissions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-message-from-james-hansen-on-hope-of-cutting-global-carbon-emissions http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/11/30/a-message-from-james-hansen-on-hope-of-cutting-global-carbon-emissions/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:41:37 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4011 Is it feasible to phase out coal and avoid use of unconventional fossil fuels? Yes, but only if governments face up to the truth: as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, their use will continue and even increase on a global basis. Fossil fuels are cheapest because they are not made to pay for their effects on human health, the environment, and future climate. Intergenerational inequity is a moral issue.

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