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“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 [...]
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;
“… 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”,
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Carbon cycle feedbacks, Dangerous Climate Change, Future Climate, Future Climate Projections, Mitigation, Recent Posts, Tipping Points, UN Climate Panel, Zero Emissions · Tagged with Climate projections, Dangerous Climate Change, IEA, Irreversible Climate Change, lock-in effect, THe Guardian, Tipping Points
From climate change to climate justice By Mike Kaulbars October 16, 2011 One of the last posts prior to the unplanned pause here at West Coast Climate Equity was “Runaway Permafrost Melt Imminent, Will Speed Dangerous Climate Change” It would be so wonderful to be able to revive this blog with the news that the [...]
Filed under Civil Resistance, Political/Legal Action, Recent Posts · Tagged with Alberta tar sands, Arctic ice, Climate justice, Keystone Pipeline, methane, Occuoy, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Tar Sands, Tipping Points
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”
Filed under 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide, Climate Psychology/Denial, Dangerous Climate Change, Desertification, Drought, Future Climate, Future Climate Projections, Heat Waves, Human Suffering, Mitigation, Recent Posts, Tipping Points, Visible Effects, Zero Emissions · Tagged with climate change, global warming, Heat Waves, Tipping Points, Water shortages
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.
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Another disturbing milestone was passed on November 6. The graph below shows that although extent of the Arctic sea ice this past summer was greater than that of 2007, it is now less, a record low for its date. Ice covered the Arctic Ocean in a smaller area on November 6, 2009 than in any other year on November 6 since observations began in 1979.
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Rather than decarbonising, the world is carbonising at an unprecedented rate, and it is doing so at precisely the time we know we have to stop it. 2.5 degrees Celsius is likely by the end of the century in spite of our childlike belief that climate change can be averted; the cost will prove incalculable.
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“We’ve always talked about these very severe impacts only affecting future generations, but people alive today could live to see a 4C rise,” said Richard Betts, the head of climate impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, who will announce the findings today at a conference at Oxford University. “People will say it’s an extreme scenario, and it is an extreme scenario, but it’s also a plausible scenario.”
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The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The most common greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide
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