Beyond Warmer Weather – Looking at the Impacts of Climate Change
Author: Marilyn Bruno, Newsletter Reporter Most people are focusing on the serious impacts of extreme climate events such as wildfires, hurricanes, flooding and other disasters and the relentless rise in sea levels, which are already affecting fisheries, displacing coastal populations and undermining water and wastewater infrastructure. This article focuses on the impact of a temperature […]
San Diegan’s Protest the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
By Danielle Wilkerson, Action and Equity Coordinator On Saturday, July 2nd, SanDiego350 volunteers and community members rallied outside the Hall of Justice in response to the Supreme Court verdict in West Virginia v EPA. This decision ultimately limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and sets a very worrying precedent […]
Millennials See Keystone as More Than a Pipeline
By Jeffrey Meyer The Keystone pipeline proposal has hit a Nebraska stop sign, but it has deeper problems than right-of-way issues across the United States. After all, the controversial proposal for transporting Canada’s tar sands was never just about the pipeline. Just ask the thousand students who rallied in front of the White House […]
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 […]
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, […]