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/2010/10/24/melting-arctic-will-cause-bad-hot-days-for-california/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=melting-arctic-will-cause-bad-hot-days-for-california http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/24/melting-arctic-will-cause-bad-hot-days-for-california/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:42:08 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6655 The warming contributed by CO2 and methane from Arctic tundra ecosystems will lead to warming in CA, with hotter days in LA and contribute to the loss of the snowpack in the Sierra and water problems.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/24/melting-arctic-will-cause-bad-hot-days-for-california/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/30/cryosat-2-now-sending-data-on-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-thickness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cryosat-2-now-sending-data-on-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-thickness http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/30/cryosat-2-now-sending-data-on-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-thickness/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:52:36 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6200 The Cryosat-2 mission is delivering on its promise to make high-precision radar measurements of polar ice. The first data from the European spacecraft has been presented at an Earth observation meeting in Norway. The information clearly shows Cryosat has the required sensitivity to assess the state of Antarctic and Arctic ice

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/30/cryosat-2-now-sending-data-on-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-thickness/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/28/due-to-melting-arctic-colder-winters-will-be-rule-rather-than-exception/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=due-to-melting-arctic-colder-winters-will-be-rule-rather-than-exception http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/28/due-to-melting-arctic-colder-winters-will-be-rule-rather-than-exception/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:28:56 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6184 Last winter's big snowfall and cold temperatures in the eastern United States and Europe were likely caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice. Arctic climatologist David Barber says that not only does the loss of ice affect conditions locally but "what happens in the Arctic dictates some of what happens in the mid-latitudes...This huge mass of warmer air over the Arctic in the late fall not only generates more wind and snow locally, several studies have now documented the impacts on global weather patterns.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/28/due-to-melting-arctic-colder-winters-will-be-rule-rather-than-exception/feed/ 3 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/alarming-graph-from-piomas-of-arctic-sea-ice-volume-and-trend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alarming-graph-from-piomas-of-arctic-sea-ice-volume-and-trend http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/alarming-graph-from-piomas-of-arctic-sea-ice-volume-and-trend/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:26:11 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6175 Arctic sees record sea ice shrinkage, as well as heading for record low volume

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/27/alarming-graph-from-piomas-of-arctic-sea-ice-volume-and-trend/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/31/why-has-the-surface-of-the-arctic-sea-ice-remained-frozen-this-march/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-has-the-surface-of-the-arctic-sea-ice-remained-frozen-this-march http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/31/why-has-the-surface-of-the-arctic-sea-ice-remained-frozen-this-march/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:27:47 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5416 Yesterday morning, March 30, I emailed James Overland with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA  in Seattle asking him about the slow melt of visible Arctic sea ice, adding that this was certain to stoke the fires of the army of climate skeptics. This morning Dr. Overland replied that “the winds on the Atlantic side were [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/31/why-has-the-surface-of-the-arctic-sea-ice-remained-frozen-this-march/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/15/arctic-thick-and-thin-a-warning-about-the-escalating-loss-of-sea-ice-mass/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arctic-thick-and-thin-a-warning-about-the-escalating-loss-of-sea-ice-mass http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/15/arctic-thick-and-thin-a-warning-about-the-escalating-loss-of-sea-ice-mass/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:11:30 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4890 Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a "double whammy" of powerful ice-melt next summer, a top U.S. climate scientist said on Thursday. "It's not that the ice keeps melting, it's just not growing very fast." "We've grown back ice in the winter, but that ice tends to be thin and that's the problem," he said. "You set yourself up for a world of hurt in summer. The ice that is there is also thinner than it was before and thinner ice simply takes less energy to melt out the next summer." - Mark Serreze, director of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. In January, Arctic sea ice grew by about 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) a day, which is a bit more than one-third the pace of ice growth during the 1980s, and less than the average for the first decade of the 21st century. Arctic ice cover is important to the rest of the world because the Arctic is the globe's biggest weather-maker, sometimes dubbed Earth's air-conditioner for its ability to cool down the planet.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/02/15/arctic-thick-and-thin-a-warning-about-the-escalating-loss-of-sea-ice-mass/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/29/the-arctic-could-be-primed-for-major-even-irreversible-changes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-arctic-could-be-primed-for-major-even-irreversible-changes http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/29/the-arctic-could-be-primed-for-major-even-irreversible-changes/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:56:38 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4609 As Arctic climatologist David Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber’s words, “full of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven’t seen this sort of thing before.” What Barber’s expedition further discovered was that some Arctic sea ice is not only whisper thin, but that even in places with thick ice, the ice was not as solid as satellites had indicated. That thick ice was still there, but largely as individual chunks covered with a veneer of new ice that masked their true nature.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/29/the-arctic-could-be-primed-for-major-even-irreversible-changes/feed/ 4 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/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:21:18 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4179 It's easy for people in Russia, England and on the eastern coast of the US, with the severe winter conditions they're experiencing, to forget that on other parts of our Planet are feeling the heat of dangerous climate change. What we should remember is that what we're witnessing is not so much "Global Warming," or even "Climate Change," but "Global Climatic Disruption," the term coined by President Obama's chief science advisor John Holdren.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/06/global-climatic-disruption-becoming-more-evident/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.

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