Climate Change
California Council Adopts Sea Level Rise Projections
Projected SLR in Monterey, CA (in blue) The California Ocean Protection Council, has released a draft resolution that calls for state agencies to account for sea level rise (SLR) of... Read More
Prop 23: US Climate Change Fight Hinges on California Voters
(Photo: Flickr user fd) Whether or not you live in California, you might have heard about the battle going down over Proposition 23 on next Tuesday’s ballot. On one side of the climate... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured · Tags California, carbon dioxide, emissions, global warming, legislation, renewable energy
NRDC Documentary About Ocean Acidification
Check out this short and effective documentary about ocean acidification, an issue that we are just really beginning to grasp the gravity of. The video is the work of the Natural Resources... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured, Ocean & Nature, Video · Tags carbon dioxide, emissions, global warming, ocean acidification
Making Sense of Public Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change
What do Americans REALLY think? Dr. Jon Krosnick, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, is a social psychologist who studies how the American... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured · Tags denial, global warming, psychology
Eager Beavers Enlisted to Fight Climate Change
Photo by Flickr user stevehdc With climate change expected to lead to longer and drier summers here in Washington State, the timing of spring and summer runoff from mountains has become... Read More
Category Climate Change, gRound-Up, Ocean & Nature · Tags adaptation, drought, global warming, restoration, Washington State
Deep Ocean Warming is Leading to Sea Level Rise
Photo credit: NOAAA NOAA news release draws attention to an upcoming report in the Journal of Climate regarding substantial warming in the deep ocean that has been recorded over the... Read More
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third Lowest Minimum in Satellite Record
Daily Arctic sea ice extent on September 10, 2010 was 4.76 million square kilometers (1.84 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1979 to 2000 median extent for that day.... Read More
Some perspective on climate-security linkages
More great material from The New Security Beat. Photo Credit: "KE139S11 World Bank" courtesy of flickr user World Bank Photo Collection. This time it is a critique from Marc... Read More
What you can do about climate change
A wonderful video animation and public service announcement from the Monterey Bay Aquarium about climate change, our changing ocean, and some quick things you can do about it. Read More
Is it hot in here, or just me?
If you have been feeling like this summer has been hotter-than-the-dickens, then you are right. July was the second hottest on record, and 2010 is on path to become the hottest year... Read More
Visualizing Climate Change at the Ventura Boardwalk
Do You Know How Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Will Impact YOU? As a surfer, I often think about how my local surf spots—as well as the world’s most famous surf breaks—may... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured, Ocean & Nature · Tags adaptation, antarctic, arctic, California, global warming, sea level rise
Planes, Volcanoes, and Climate
Too often we forget that humanity is fundamentally at the whim of nature. Someone must have angered Vulcan, because the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull ground Europe to a halt last... Read More
Category Climate Change, Featured · Tags carbon dioxide, global warming, UK, volcano
What We Know About Climate Change
What do we know about Climate Change? A lot, actually. Have a look at this great video from Peter Sinclair of Greenman Studios: For myself and countless other individuals, the science... Read More
