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. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:20:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/12/22/climate-scientist-james-hansen-and-bill-mckibben-talk-together-about-dangerous-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-scientist-james-hansen-and-bill-mckibben-talk-together-about-dangerous-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/12/22/climate-scientist-james-hansen-and-bill-mckibben-talk-together-about-dangerous-climate-change/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:06:27 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=6760 James Hansen tells Bill McKibben "science demands actual reductions in fossil fuel emissions, not phony offsets." He may bring suit against the US government on behalf of his grandchildren.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/12/22/climate-scientist-james-hansen-and-bill-mckibben-talk-together-about-dangerous-climate-change/feed/ 0 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/2009/05/03/tight-future-carbon-emissions-budget-critical-to-prevent-dangerous-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tight-future-carbon-emissions-budget-critical-to-prevent-dangerous-climate-change http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/05/03/tight-future-carbon-emissions-budget-critical-to-prevent-dangerous-climate-change/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 17:21:04 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=2925 If emissions keep growing at 3.5 per cent a year, then the carbon budget for 2 degrees runs out in 2021. That is, after that time, emissions would need to drop to zero immediately to have a 75 per cent chance of not passing 2 degrees.

]]> http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2009/05/03/tight-future-carbon-emissions-budget-critical-to-prevent-dangerous-climate-change/feed/ 2 http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2008/10/26/a-new-article-by-dr-james-e-hansen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-article-by-dr-james-e-hansen http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2008/10/26/a-new-article-by-dr-james-e-hansen/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:39:37 +0000 Dorothy http://westcoastclimateequity.org/?p=774  Obstruction of Justice  “You’re Hannah, right?”  Hannah Morgan, a 20-year old from Appalachia, Virginia, was one of 11 protesters in handcuffs early Monday morning September 15 at the construction site for a coal-fired power plant being built in Wise County Virginia by Dominion Power.  The handcuffs were applied by the police, but the questioner, it [...]

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