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/2010/04/21/world-peoples-conference-on-climate-change-and-the-rights-of-mother-earth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-peoples-conference-on-climate-change-and-the-rights-of-mother-earth http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/21/world-peoples-conference-on-climate-change-and-the-rights-of-mother-earth/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:08:00 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5752 The Summit on Climate Change currently underway in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba is a ray of light and hope for those concerned with the environmental situation on the planet. It is also an alternative to the meeting that took place in Copenhagen, where rich countries conspired to come up with an agreement that exempts them of any responsibility regarding the climate world situation. This meeting showed the world the true face of industrialized countries when it comes to issues related to the environment. In Cochabamba, civil society sectors are meeting to design a strategy to fight for the survival of mother Earth.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/21/world-peoples-conference-on-climate-change-and-the-rights-of-mother-earth/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/2009/12/25/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/2009/12/18/climate-betrayal-in-copenhagen-gpc-pvc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-betrayal-in-copenhagen-gpc-pvc http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/18/climate-betrayal-in-copenhagen-gpc-pvc/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:44:04 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4144 “The political statement agreed to with much fanfare in Copenhagen at the 15th Conference of the Parties is not what was needed,” says Elizabeth May, the Green Party of Canada Leader. “With clear warnings from science that greenhouse gas emissions must halt their global rise and begin a steep decline no later than 2015, the leaders gathered in Copenhagen have issued a compromise statement that should never have been written.”

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/18/climate-betrayal-in-copenhagen-gpc-pvc/feed/ 3 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/12/final-episode-of-bbc-worlds-hot-cities-available/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=final-episode-of-bbc-worlds-hot-cities-available http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/12/final-episode-of-bbc-worlds-hot-cities-available/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:19:48 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4121 Los Angeles is one of the most polluting cities in the world thanks largely to its love affair with the car. It is a city built on consumption. Each person produces around 20 tonnes of emissions per year - twice as much as anyone else. Now they are about to reap what has been sown. In LA there has been a big increase in wildfires, water supplies are under threat, rising sea levels could have a massive impact on LA's huge port and destroy thousands of homes. “Hot Cities” goes to LA just as the city launches its adaptation strategy.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/12/final-episode-of-bbc-worlds-hot-cities-available/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/an-optimistic-take-on-the-copenhagen-climate-conference-by-gwynne-dyer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-optimistic-take-on-the-copenhagen-climate-conference-by-gwynne-dyer http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/an-optimistic-take-on-the-copenhagen-climate-conference-by-gwynne-dyer/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:55 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4114 It is hard to celebrate a process as clumsy, and occasionally as ugly, as the horse-trading and arm-twisting going on at Copenhagen, but that is how human politics works. We may all recognize that there is a global emergency, but every government still has its own interests to protect. Nevertheless, we have come a long way.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/10/an-optimistic-take-on-the-copenhagen-climate-conference-by-gwynne-dyer/feed/ 0 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/2009/12/09/56-newspapers-around-the-world-in-20-languages-publish-the-same-editorial-calling-for-action-from-world-leaders-on-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=56-newspapers-around-the-world-in-20-languages-publish-the-same-editorial-calling-for-action-from-world-leaders-on-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/09/56-newspapers-around-the-world-in-20-languages-publish-the-same-editorial-calling-for-action-from-world-leaders-on-climate-change/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:38:18 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4101 Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/09/56-newspapers-around-the-world-in-20-languages-publish-the-same-editorial-calling-for-action-from-world-leaders-on-climate-change/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/08/state-of-climate-science-videos-of-us-senate-select-committee-hearing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-of-climate-science-videos-of-us-senate-select-committee-hearing http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/08/state-of-climate-science-videos-of-us-senate-select-committee-hearing/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:21:23 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4078 With the international climate change talks in Copenhagen fast approaching, there is real urgency to reach diplomatic consensus on a planetary solution. In a hearing hosted by Chairman Edward J. Markey on December 2, 2009, the US Senate Select Committee explored with climate scientists from the Obama administration, Dr. John Holdren and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the urgent, consensus view on our planetary problem: that global warming is real, and the science indicates that it is getting worse.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/08/state-of-climate-science-videos-of-us-senate-select-committee-hearing/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/07/in-copenhagen-an-absolute-necessity-to-peak-co2-emissions-within-just-a-few-years-to-keep-within-our-carbon-budget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-copenhagen-an-absolute-necessity-to-peak-co2-emissions-within-just-a-few-years-to-keep-within-our-carbon-budget http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/12/07/in-copenhagen-an-absolute-necessity-to-peak-co2-emissions-within-just-a-few-years-to-keep-within-our-carbon-budget/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:30:33 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4068 The cuts in greenhouse gas emissions being proposed at the Copenhagen climate conference, which opens today, are completely inadequate to stop dangerous climate change, one of Britain's leading climate scientists warns. Current proposals, including recent ones from major emitting nations such as the US, China and India, are "little more than token gestures", compared to what the science deems necessary to give even a 50-50 chance of staying below the danger threshold, says Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester.

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