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/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:13:11 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=4550 The Earth has been in a period of rapid global warming for the past three decades. The assertion that the planet has entered a period of cooling in the past decade is without foundation. On the contrary, we find no significant deviation from the warming trend of the past three decades. Weather fluctuations exceed the magnitude of average global warming over the past half century. However, the perceptive person should be able to notice that climate is warming on decadal time scales. The global temperature trend over the past few decades has been strong enough that there is a noticeable “loading” of the climate dice that define the probability of unusually warm or cool seasons.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/01/28/revised-essay-by-dr-james-hansen-with-new-graphs-and-photos/feed/ 0 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/2009/08/22/ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july-update/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july-update http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/22/ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july-update/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:04:19 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3592 July was the hottest the world’s oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping. Breaking heat records in water is more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks on land, because water takes longer to heat up and does not cool off as easily as land.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/22/ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july-update/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/14/more-evidence-of-dangerous-climate-change-ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-evidence-of-dangerous-climate-change-ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/14/more-evidence-of-dangerous-climate-change-ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:48:30 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3560 The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/08/14/more-evidence-of-dangerous-climate-change-ocean-surface-warming-breaks-record-this-july/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/alert-the-rest-of-this-year-could-be-much-hotter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alert-the-rest-of-this-year-could-be-much-hotter http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/alert-the-rest-of-this-year-could-be-much-hotter/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:35:21 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3423 NCDC: "Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for June, and the January-June year-to-date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record." The ocean temperature was the warmest on record. In fact, it was a full 0.11°F warmer than the 2005 record. This is almost certainly the new El Niño on top of the long-term warming trend, and that means record temperatures are coming and this will be the hottest decade on record.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/alert-the-rest-of-this-year-could-be-much-hotter/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/satellite-shows-big-thinning-of-winter-arctic-sea-ice-in-just-four-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=satellite-shows-big-thinning-of-winter-arctic-sea-ice-in-just-four-years http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/satellite-shows-big-thinning-of-winter-arctic-sea-ice-in-just-four-years/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:02:51 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3404 The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57 percent from late 2004 to 2008. That is losing more volume of ice than water in Lake Michigan. Thin seasonal ice has replaced thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/17/satellite-shows-big-thinning-of-winter-arctic-sea-ice-in-just-four-years/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/09/shocking-australian-government-report-on-dangerous-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shocking-australian-government-report-on-dangerous-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/09/shocking-australian-government-report-on-dangerous-climate-change/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:11:28 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3340 “Climate Change 2009″ Faster Change and More Serious Risks By Will Steffen Click here to download the full report Executive summary: State of the Science 2009 The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is an outstanding source of information on our current scientific understanding of the climate system and how it is responding to the changes in the [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/07/09/shocking-australian-government-report-on-dangerous-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/06/28/johann-hari-a-fight-for-the-amazon-that-should-inspire-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=johann-hari-a-fight-for-the-amazon-that-should-inspire-the-world http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/06/28/johann-hari-a-fight-for-the-amazon-that-should-inspire-the-world/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:44:42 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3292 In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world have taken on the richest people in the world to defend a part of the ecosystem none of us can live without. They had nothing but wooden spears and moral force to defeat the oil companies – and, for today, they have won.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/06/28/johann-hari-a-fight-for-the-amazon-that-should-inspire-the-world/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/06/23/rapid-sustained-and-effective-mitigation-needed-to-avoid-dangerous-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rapid-sustained-and-effective-mitigation-needed-to-avoid-dangerous-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/06/23/rapid-sustained-and-effective-mitigation-needed-to-avoid-dangerous-climate-change/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:02:36 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3267 With unabated greenhouse gas emissions, the world faces a growing risk of ”abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts”. This is one of the conclusions in a scientific synthesis report released Thursday, June 18. Weak targets for CO2 reduction 2020 increase the risk of serious impacts, such as tipping points, and make the task of meeting 2050 targets more difficult and costly.

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