In Deep: Sea-Level Rise and San Diego
As we burn more fossil fuels, and thus pump more heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we are changing every aspect of earth’s climate system. One of the many consequences is that the sea is rising. On January 19, San Diego 350 will stage a simple action to help make people more aware of what […]
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 […]
SD350 Very Disappointed in Obama’s State of the Union
Activists Say He Has Failed Our Country at its Most Critical Hour SAN DIEGO – A local environmental group was “very disappointed” in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, saying he has failed the country at its most critical hour in the battle over climate change. They say his vacillating policy on energy may even […]
Young Scientists: Hope from Climate Summit
“The world needs your voice. Use it.” Natalya Gallo, Ocean Scientists for Informed Policy As a middle-aged scientist who wishes our society would make decisions based on reality, I get discouraged watching middle-aged politicians play power games while we keep burning coal and oil, pumping heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere, and hurting our children. […]
Young SD Scientists Alert Climate Summit to Ocean’s Plight
The world’s top climate-policy summit is going on right now in Warsaw, and many of the policy makers there know too little about the actual science of climate change. A dynamic group of young San Diego scientists is at the summit to do something about that. Two of them, Amy Van Cise from the Scripps […]
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 […]
San Diegans Join Nationwide Protest Against Keystone XL
By Jeffrey Meyer Mayor Bob Filner and over 500 San Diego protestors in Mission Bay Park joined similar rallies in cities across America Sunday in protest of the Keystone XL Pipeline project, beginning a massive effort to demand President Obama block it and call for leaders at all levels to take action to fight global […]
Human Wave at Mission Beach Shows Sea Level Rise
Connect the Dots! Dot #1: in the last few years we are seeing higher temperatures worldwide and more frequent and severe weather events. Dot #2: this is climate change. Dot #3: climate change is caused by emissions from burning fossil fuel. Dot #4: with rising temperatures, oceans are expanding which will cause more frequent and […]
Bill McKibben Visits with SanDiego350.org
On May 14, 2012, acclaimed author, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, gave the Keeling Memorial Lecture at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla. For an hour prior to his lecture, he met privately with 36 members of San Diego 350.org. Bill noted that the fossil fuel industry, the richest industry in the history of the […]