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/2011/12/13/arctic-methane-emergency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arctic-methane-emergency http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/13/arctic-methane-emergency/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:46:27 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7943 Heightening the fear of rapid and severe climate change, continuous, powerful and impressive methane plumes, more than 1,000 metres in diameter, have been found beneath the Arctic seabed off the East Siberian Arctic Shelf of northern Russia.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/13/arctic-methane-emergency/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:13:05 +0000 Greenfyre http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7795 “A year in the making, this video pays tribute to a critical scientific and academic figure in postmodern history: the late Climatologist and Stanford Professor Stephen Schneider (1945-2010) This video was screened before a live audience by Climate One of the Commonwealth Club of California in downtown San Francisco on Dec 6, 2011 as the [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/08/stephen-schneider-science-and-distortion/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/11/09/world-headed-for-irreversible-climate-change-in-five-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-headed-for-irreversible-climate-change-in-five-years http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/11/09/world-headed-for-irreversible-climate-change-in-five-years/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:10:48 +0000 Greenfyre http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7451 "... it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever",

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/11/09/world-headed-for-irreversible-climate-change-in-five-years/feed/ 3 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/28/canada-and-us-hit-by-huge-weather-bomb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canada-and-us-hit-by-huge-weather-bomb http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/28/canada-and-us-hit-by-huge-weather-bomb/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:32:16 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6665 Fueled by fossil fuel pollution, an unprecedented, freak “land hurricane” or "weather bomb" swept through the continental United States, leaving a path of devastation from Saskatchewan to Texas. Much of North America is being affected by this storm, which is covering millions of square kilometers.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/28/canada-and-us-hit-by-huge-weather-bomb/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/18/lowered-evapotranspiration-causing-drying-and-heating-of-southern-hemisphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lowered-evapotranspiration-causing-drying-and-heating-of-southern-hemisphere http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/18/lowered-evapotranspiration-causing-drying-and-heating-of-southern-hemisphere/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:33:17 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6634 Huge areas of the Southern Hemisphere are now drying out. This could lead to increased drought stress on vegetation and less overall productivity, and as a result less carbon absorbed, less cooling through evapotranspiration, and more frequent or extreme heat waves

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/10/18/lowered-evapotranspiration-causing-drying-and-heating-of-southern-hemisphere/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/16/as-global-temperature-rises-so-do-food-prices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-global-temperature-rises-so-do-food-prices http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/16/as-global-temperature-rises-so-do-food-prices/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:14:18 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6513 As concerns mount over extreme weather hitting global food systems this year, governments are no closer to forging a pact to fight climate change. The effects of extreme weather on crops are only beginning to be understood. For decades scientists studied the effect of global warming on crops by simply raising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels in greenhouses. They did not take into account the effects of floods and droughts, or reduced yields that result from higher temperatures.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/08/16/as-global-temperature-rises-so-do-food-prices/feed/ 1 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/2010/07/25/burning-our-forests-for-fuel-will-doom-our-planet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burning-our-forests-for-fuel-will-doom-our-planet http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/25/burning-our-forests-for-fuel-will-doom-our-planet/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:09:31 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6323 Bioenergy is an urgent problem that requires a real and immediate reduction of CO2 emissions. Burning wood to replace fossil fuels will increase CO2 output for several decades. And there is no assurance that energy from wood-fueled power would replace energy from gas-fired plants; it may just all be additional to the CO2 loading.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/25/burning-our-forests-for-fuel-will-doom-our-planet/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/09/more-dark-global-warming-news-on-a-hot-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-dark-global-warming-news-on-a-hot-friday http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/09/more-dark-global-warming-news-on-a-hot-friday/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:13:35 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6273 Two articles: "Ten Nations at ‘Extreme Risk’ Because of Water Shortages, Report Says" and "Heat Waves to Intensify Across U.S. in Next 30 Years, Study Says"

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/09/more-dark-global-warming-news-on-a-hot-friday/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/07/paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/07/paper-from-pnas-expert-credibility-in-climate-change/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:31:29 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6215 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed in this report support the tenets of ACC outlined by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.

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