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/2010/05/26/video-ubc-professor-william-rees-on-humanitys-need-to-reduce-consumption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=video-ubc-professor-william-rees-on-humanitys-need-to-reduce-consumption http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/05/26/video-ubc-professor-william-rees-on-humanitys-need-to-reduce-consumption/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 15:37:51 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6017 An eight part video of Dr. William Rees, professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning, talking of humanity's survival depending on an 80% reduction in energy use.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/05/26/video-ubc-professor-william-rees-on-humanitys-need-to-reduce-consumption/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/20/massive-oil-shortages-possible-within-five-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=massive-oil-shortages-possible-within-five-years http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/20/massive-oil-shortages-possible-within-five-years/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:30:22 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5738 The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel. "By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day," says the report, which has a foreword by a senior commander, General James N Mattis.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/20/massive-oil-shortages-possible-within-five-years/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/2010/02/09/%e2%80%9cput-the-polluters-on-trial-not-the-planet%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=%25e2%2580%259cput-the-polluters-on-trial-not-the-planet%25e2%2580%259d http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/09/%e2%80%9cput-the-polluters-on-trial-not-the-planet%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:15:36 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4765 The epic fight to ward off global warming and transform the energy system that is at the core of our planet’s economy takes many forms: huge global days of action, giant international conferences like the one that just failed in Copenhagen, small gestures in the homes of countless people. But there are a few signal moments, and one comes March 15-18, when the federal government puts Tim DeChristopher on trial in Salt Lake City. Tim—“Bidder 70”– pulled off one of the most creative protests against our runaway energy policy in years: he bid for the oil and gas leases on several parcels of federal land even though he had no money to pay for them, thus upending the auction. The government calls that “violating the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act” and thinks he should spend ten years in jail for the crime; we call it a noble act, a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and of the future. Tim’s action drew national attention to the fact that the Bush Administration spent its dying days in office handing out a last round of favors to the oil and gas industry. After investigating irregularities in the auction, the Obama Administration took many of the leases off the table, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar criticizing the process as “a headlong rush.” And yet that same Administration is choosing to prosecute the young man who blew the whistle on this corrupt process. We cannot let this stand. When Tim disrupted the auction, he did so in the fine tradition of non-violent civil disobedience that changed so many unjust laws in this country’s past. Tim’s upcoming trial is an occasion to raise the alarm once more about the peril our planet faces. The situation is still fluid—the trial date has just been set, and local supporters are making plans for how to mark the three-day proceedings. But they are asking people around the country to flood into Salt Lake City in mid-March. If you come, there will be ample opportunity for both legal protest and civil disobedience.

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]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/30/we-can-dream-cant-we/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/2009/12/01/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/2009/09/07/capitalism-a-love-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capitalism-a-love-story http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/09/07/capitalism-a-love-story/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:03:12 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3672 Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story" will open October 2 in the U.S. This film will explore the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as "the biggest robbery in the history of this country" -- the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/09/07/capitalism-a-love-story/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/23/mobilizing-for-climate-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobilizing-for-climate-justice http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/23/mobilizing-for-climate-justice/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:12:27 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3608 The Mobilization for Climate Justice was founded to link the climate struggle in the U.S. to the growing international climate justice movement, with an eye toward building for actions around the Copenhagen climate summit and beyond. Its objective is to provide a justice-based framework for organizing around climate change that opens space for leadership by representatives of communities in the U.S. that are most impacted by climate change and the fossil fuel industry. The increasing urgency of the climate crisis has clearly hit a nerve among people of many walks of life, all around the world. While the outcome of this fall's events remains highly uncertain, it is clear that such a flowering of creative and determined popular responses is precisely what is needed to reverse decades of willful inaction by the world's elites and reach beyond the limits of politics-as-usual.

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