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/2010/07/17/climate-data-shows-june-2010-to-be-earth%e2%80%99s-hottest-month-on-record/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-data-shows-june-2010-to-be-earth%25e2%2580%2599s-hottest-month-on-record http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/17/climate-data-shows-june-2010-to-be-earth%e2%80%99s-hottest-month-on-record/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:08:21 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6299 Last month was the hottest June recorded worldwide, figures show. US government climate data suggests 2010 on course to be warmest year since records began

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/07/17/climate-data-shows-june-2010-to-be-earth%e2%80%99s-hottest-month-on-record/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/05/23/ocean-warming-trend-greater-than-expected/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ocean-warming-trend-greater-than-expected http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/05/23/ocean-warming-trend-greater-than-expected/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 16:28:06 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6000 Study: John Lyman's NOAA research team found a world ocean warming trend six times larger than the uncertainty inherent in the ocean heat data they analyzed

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/05/23/ocean-warming-trend-greater-than-expected/feed/ 1 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/2010/01/28/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/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/2009/10/28/an-interactive-global-climate-change-map-to-inspire-immediate-action-on-global-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-interactive-global-climate-change-map-to-inspire-immediate-action-on-global-warming http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/10/28/an-interactive-global-climate-change-map-to-inspire-immediate-action-on-global-warming/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:55:57 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3844 A nightmare in the not-very-distant future: this new map shows the enormous temperature rises which British scientists believe the planet may be experiencing in as a little as 50 years from now if global warming remains unchecked.Released by the Government today, it illustrates a rise in global average temperature of four degrees Centigrade by 2060, and as such represents a dramatic acceleration of previous forecasts made as recently as 2007 by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/10/28/an-interactive-global-climate-change-map-to-inspire-immediate-action-on-global-warming/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/10/07/talks-james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talks-james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/10/07/talks-james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:49:10 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=3772 Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/10/07/talks-james-balog-time-lapse-proof-of-extreme-ice-loss/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/2008/11/09/current-warming-sharpest-climate-change-in-5000-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=current-warming-sharpest-climate-change-in-5000-years http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2008/11/09/current-warming-sharpest-climate-change-in-5000-years/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:41:13 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=1036 New study from Cornell University TheRawStory.com Published: Friday November 7, 2008 Research on Arctic and North Atlantic ecosystems shows the recent warming trend counts as the most dramatic climate change since the onset of human civilization 5,000 years ago, according to studies published Thursday. Researchers from Cornell University studied the increased introduction of fresh water from [...]

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