One Million Letters & Underappreciated Ocean Effects Presentations
by Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the East County Magazine on 3/5/2017) On the evening of March 1, the organization Stay Cool 4 Grandkids hosted speakers who presented on two climate change topics. Representatives from Kids 4 Planet Earth spoke about their goal to have school children send one million letters to President Trump […]
SECURITY & CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE REVEALS DISTURBING ATTITUDE SHIFT
By Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the East County Magazine on 3/5/2017) On February 21, 2017, an audience of approximately 75 attended the Security & Climate Change: Issues and Perspectives conference, held in the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park. Organized and funded by The Center for Climate and Security (with the support of The […]
San Diego 350 Calls on Senators Feinstein and Harris to Reject Trump’s Climate Denier Cabinet
By David Harris, SanDiego350 Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on 1/26/17 Two weeks ago, a sign-wielding crowd of 150 people gathered together in front of the downtown Federal Building to deliver an urgent message to California’s two Senators: reject four nominations made by President Trump to key cabinet-level level posts. Why? Because […]
The Truth of the Matter
Originally Published in the San Diego Free Press on 11/24/16 by Mark Hughes One of humorist Will Rogers’ signature lines was: “Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.” In subtext, he’s saying he trusted what he read, so it seems reasonable to believe that in those days newspapers lived and died […]
From Coal to Climate: the Evolution of an Activist
Originally published in the San Diego Free Press, September 22nd, 2016 So, here is a question: what’s about as likely as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly jointly admitting that pretty much everything they’ve ever said was wrong? Answer: that a guy with my background would end up as an active member of 350.org. […]
Notes from a Climate Conference Junkie, Part 1
by James Long I started my journey singing with Pete Seeger and ended it three weeks later with the fiery intellectual Cornel West! I just got back from Pando Populus in Claremont, California, and the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Portland, Oregon. After 25 to 30 lectures — together with great music, stimulating presenters and a lot […]
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 […]
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 […]