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/2011/12/07/brutal-numbers-and-tenuous-hope-a-must-read/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brutal-numbers-and-tenuous-hope-a-must-read http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/07/brutal-numbers-and-tenuous-hope-a-must-read/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:59:09 +0000 Greenfyre http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=7728 Global inequity means that a disproportionate share of the climate change problem is caused by very few people. For the moment we don't really need to worry about changing 7 billion people, the real problem is the global 1%. That includes most of us in the developed world;

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/12/07/brutal-numbers-and-tenuous-hope-a-must-read/feed/ 1 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/2011/01/27/canadian-singer-raffi-calls-for-a-stunning-paradigm-shift-to-stabilize-climate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadian-singer-raffi-calls-for-a-stunning-paradigm-shift-to-stabilize-climate http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/01/27/canadian-singer-raffi-calls-for-a-stunning-paradigm-shift-to-stabilize-climate/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:40:55 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6806 Note from Dorothy: My grandchildren grew up listening to Raffi’s wonderful and unique songs – Baby Beluga, This Little Light of Mine, Morningtown Ride and my personal favourite, Douglas Mountain. Never could I have imagined then that this great Canadian musician would come to live on the same island in British Columbia as I do [...]

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2011/01/27/canadian-singer-raffi-calls-for-a-stunning-paradigm-shift-to-stabilize-climate/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/02/dr-james-hansen-global-surface-temperature-change-summary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-james-hansen-global-surface-temperature-change-summary http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/02/dr-james-hansen-global-surface-temperature-change-summary/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:23:36 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6040 Communication of the status of global warming to the public has always been hampered by weather variability. Lay people's perception tends to be strongly influenced by the latest local fluctuation. This difficulty can be alleviated by stressing the need to focus on the frequency and magnitude of warm and cold anomalies, which change noticeably on decadal time scales as global warming increases. A greater obstacle to public communication has arisen with the politicization of reporting of global warming, a perhaps inevitable consequence of the economic and social implications of efforts required to alter the course of human-made climate change. We have the impression that the effect of politicization on communication of the science is aggravated by the fact that much of the media is owned by or strongly influenced by special economic interests.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/06/02/dr-james-hansen-global-surface-temperature-change-summary/feed/ 0 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/15/who-can-deny-the-world-is-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-can-deny-the-world-is-warming http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/15/who-can-deny-the-world-is-warming/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:34:43 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5618 THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MODERN DAY CLIMATE CHANGE All the data you need to show that the world is warming An article by ClimateProgress.org guest blogger Scott A. Mandia - a compendium of the latest evidence of dangerous climate change, complete with excellent graphics

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/04/15/who-can-deny-the-world-is-warming/feed/ 1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/21/dr-james-hansen-expects-a-new-global-temperature-record-to-be-set-within-the-next-few-months/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-james-hansen-expects-a-new-global-temperature-record-to-be-set-within-the-next-few-months http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/21/dr-james-hansen-expects-a-new-global-temperature-record-to-be-set-within-the-next-few-months/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:53:37 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=5307 A must-read paper from James Hansen at NASA: "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "that there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade that began in the late 1970s."

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/21/dr-james-hansen-expects-a-new-global-temperature-record-to-be-set-within-the-next-few-months/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/2009/12/08/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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