Photo Essay: High Water Line
Martin Luther King Day was a gorgeous winter day in San Diego, perfect for visually demonstrating the effect of climate change on one of our favorite communities, Mission Beach. Sea-level rise is already starting to affect this popular beach community, and by 2050 high tides will be reaching across Mission Boulevard. By the end […]
Watch for SD350’s New PSA
Have you spotted our PSA on TV, radio, or online? Tell us! SanDiego350 is currently contacting over 50 media outlets to air our new climate change Public Service Announcement. The PSA invites the audience, who may already be concerned about climate change, to become active in the climate movement with SanDiego350. The first TV stations […]
Climate Chat Notes: Speaking for the Oceans
On Thursday, March 6, at San Diego’s World Resources Simulation Center, Ocean Scientists for Informed Policy (OSIP) shared their impressions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) in Warsaw, Poland In San Diego, if you want to get involved in a spirited and informed discussion about addressing […]
Review: “What If We Never Run Out of Oil?”
In the feature article of the May issue of The Atlantic, What If We Never Run Out of Oil?, contributing editor Charles C. Mann lays out his vision of what the future holds for a petroleum-powered planet. The descriptor on the magazine’s cover reads, “Why the fossil-fuel boom is good for America, bad for Saudi […]
Global Warming Stalled?
WHERE THE “MISSING HEAT” HAS GONE The years since the turn of the 21st century have seen a temporary lull, or pause, in the rise of global atmospheric temperatures. Yet the causes of rising temperatures — especially the burning of fossil fuels that increases the atmosphere’s CO2 burden — are still with us. So where […]
Not Just for Tree Huggers
Citizen’s Guides to Climate Change: How to Sort it All Out without Getting a PhD This posting is the third in a series on how you can figure out what’s going on with climate change, without having to get a PhD in climatology and without going crazy from the conflicting messages in the media. My […]
Open letter to the California Federation of Teachers
California Teachers for Fossil Fuel Divestment and SanDiego350.org sincerely thank the California Federation of Teachers for backing a resolution calling for CalSTRS and CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels. Your bold step in asking the two largest pension fund investors in the United States to remove the collective wealth of the education workers you represent, workers that […]
Tactics of the Misinformation Machine
In an online video, a local weather broadcaster presents information contrary to conclusions accepted by 97-98% of climate scientists. This makes him a local voice for the misinformation machine. His voice can be heard re-tooling old tactics as he seeks to dispute the ever-increasing evidence that humans have altered Earth’s climate. A common tactic used […]
Comprehend the Consensus
Citizen’s Guides to Climate Change: How to Sort it All Out without Getting a PhD Scientists are telling us clearly that we’re changing the climate and need to do something about it. Yet, what we hear in the media can be so confused that many people feel they can never figure out what to think […]
No Need to Let Your Head Explode
Citizen’s Guides to Climate Change: How to Sort it Out Without Getting a PhD “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal… Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very [90%] likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused] greenhouse gas concentrations.” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, February, […]