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/2010/07/26/the-broken-legs-of-the-biggest-elephant-in-the-room-the-us-climate-bill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-broken-legs-of-the-biggest-elephant-in-the-room-the-us-climate-bill http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/26/the-broken-legs-of-the-biggest-elephant-in-the-room-the-us-climate-bill/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:24:04 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6356 A brilliantly written article by Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, writing for the NY Times and Huffington Post. Wasserman recognizes the US Senate climate bill for what it was, born to fail. This is not to say we don't need legislation to fight dangerous climate change. We need a strong, simple, equitable bill, and we need it now.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/26/the-broken-legs-of-the-biggest-elephant-in-the-room-the-us-climate-bill/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/03/exciting-news-on-the-clear-act-weekly-policy-update-from-the-chesapeake-climate-action-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exciting-news-on-the-clear-act-weekly-policy-update-from-the-chesapeake-climate-action-network http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/03/exciting-news-on-the-clear-act-weekly-policy-update-from-the-chesapeake-climate-action-network/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:19:30 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5472 March 29-April 2 Overview: Despite the U.S. Congress being on recess this past week (and next), interest in and support for the cap and dividend/CLEAR Act approach to climate legislation continues to grow. Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter wrote positively about what he calls cap-and-rebate in his latest column. Mother Jones magazine carried a story on its website blog about The Other Climate Bill. Senator Susan Collins was interviewed by Clean Skies News; during the interview she suggested that the CLEAR Act could be paired with legislation, The American Clean Energy Leadership Act, passed by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last year. On Tuesday, March 30th, in what is probably the first such action in the country, the Santa Rosa, Ca. City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the CLEAR Act. And at the end of the week, on Good Friday, the Philadelphia Daily News came out with an editorial supporting the CLEAR Act.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/03/exciting-news-on-the-clear-act-weekly-policy-update-from-the-chesapeake-climate-action-network/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/13/warnings-of-the-approach-of-peak-oil-and-its-effect-on-world-food-supply/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=warnings-of-the-approach-of-peak-oil-and-its-effect-on-world-food-supply http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/13/warnings-of-the-approach-of-peak-oil-and-its-effect-on-world-food-supply/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:56:39 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5248 There's been a lot of stale argument recently about oil – is it running out? Are we approaching/at/passed Peak Oil (the point when global oil production goes into irrevocable decline)? Business, unsurprisingly, isn't waiting for the answer; it's working out what will happen next. Take the recent report from Deutsche Bank, entitled 'The Peak Oil Market: Price Dynamics at the End of the Oil Age'. This describes a world where the effect of failing global reserves is compounded by incoherent politics. If the US Government was honest about the cost of oil, for example, it would slap another 50c on a gallon of gasoline to pay the cost of the war in Iraq. Ludicrously, as global oil supplies dwindle, the increasingly precious part that remains is concentrated in the hands of those who give it away to their citizens for almost nothing – Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq. Governments should be planning how best to manage the limited supply of oil sensibly, for the long-term, the bankers write: 'We believe, based on the history of the past decades, years, and months, that they will do the exact opposite.'

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/13/warnings-of-the-approach-of-peak-oil-and-its-effect-on-world-food-supply/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/07/corportate-influence-on-climate-change-and-environmental-ngos-exposed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corportate-influence-on-climate-change-and-environmental-ngos-exposed http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/07/corportate-influence-on-climate-change-and-environmental-ngos-exposed/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:28:38 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5143 By pretending the broken system can work--and will work, in just a moment, after just one more Democratic win, or another, or another--the big green groups are preventing the appropriate response from concerned citizens, which is fury at the system itself. They are offering placebos to calm us down when they should be conducting and amplifying our anger at this betrayal of our safety by our politicians. The US climate bills are long-term plans: they lock us into a woefully inadequate schedule of carbon cuts all the way to 2050. So when green groups cheer them on, they are giving their approval to a path to destruction--and calling it progress.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/07/corportate-influence-on-climate-change-and-environmental-ngos-exposed/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/the-clear-act-a-clean-green-and-clear-choice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-clear-act-a-clean-green-and-clear-choice http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/the-clear-act-a-clean-green-and-clear-choice/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:29:40 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4917 It’s time for the climate movement to come together, right now, to defend the best option that we have to get decent, badly-needed legislation on climate passed this year, and to push back against the fossil fools. Passage of the CLEAR Act would be a definite step forward, a political tipping point, not the end game but a victory for sure.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/the-clear-act-a-clean-green-and-clear-choice/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/is-cap-and-trade-really-dead-part-iii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-cap-and-trade-really-dead-part-iii http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/is-cap-and-trade-really-dead-part-iii/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:26:47 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4908 Different models of carbon cap legislation serve different interests. Videos of Parts 4 and 5 of The Real News Network's coverage of Carbon Cap Legislation. Paul Jay interviews Professor James Boyce of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who is also associated with the PERI Institute

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/16/is-cap-and-trade-really-dead-part-iii/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/11/is-cap-and-trade-dead-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-cap-and-trade-dead-part-ii http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/11/is-cap-and-trade-dead-part-ii/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:37:23 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4820 Continuing with our coverage of pending Cap-and-Trade and Cap-and-Dividend legislation, here are three videos from the Real News Network on different models of Carbon Cap legislation and the corruption that could be caused by Carbon Offsets and Trading. Paul Jay interviews Professor James Boyce, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He's associated with the PERI Institute, the Political Economics Research Institute. The Real News Network has yet to publish the final one, but we will post it as soon as we get it. Let us hope a better understanding of this issue will precipitate a new effort on the part government in the Western World to enact honest, equitable, and effective measures to reduce and remove excess carbon from the atmosphere.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/11/is-cap-and-trade-dead-part-ii/feed/ 0 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.

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