Tag: Climate Change Fri, March 19, 2010
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UCSC Scientists Warn Against Maintaining Current CO2 Levels
Dec 21, 2009, by Staff EnvironmentA new study says the Earth’s temperature is even more sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide than previously believed.
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Car Put on Trial to Mark International Climate Action Day
Oct 26, 2009, by Staff EnvironmentAutomobiles may be a convenient way of getting around, but they are one of the greatest sources of greenhouses gas emissions in the world today. That’s why a group of local climate activists decided to put the car—represented by a beat-up old Honda—on trial for all the problems it has caused.
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DR. STEPHEN SCHNEIDER is a climatologist, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and a 1992 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient. Writer Jessica Lussenhop caught up with him to discuss the 350 concept—which refers to reducing our current carbon dioxide load to the sustainable figure of 350 parts per million—and more.
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Bill McKibben Kicks Off First Annual 350 Day
Oct 20, 2009, by Gretchen Giles Environment
Some 600 people, many with gray ponytails, fill the auditorium at the Sonoma Country Day School. Their earnest metal water bottles clank as they settle into their seats. A short film plays, featuring ugly potato puppets portraying John and Yoko in bed. Instead of protesting the Vietnam War, the two are protesting climate change.
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National Parks in Climate Trouble
Oct 01, 2009, by Rula al-Nasrawi Environment
Picture a world where the Everglades are completely flooded and the Rockies are surrounded by a barren wasteland. All of the glaciers are gone and the grizzly bear is as distant a memory as the stegosaurus. Climate change could make this world a reality, and the nation’s parks could suffer some of the harshest consequences.
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Santa Cruz Cuts Its Carbon Footprint by One-Quarter
Sep 14, 2009, by Staff EnvironmentSanta Cruz’s climate change coordinator Ross Clark announced that the city has succeeded in reducing its carbon footprint by 25 percent since 1996. Emissions are now lower than they were before the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. Clark attributes the success to an effective recycling program and the introduction of more energy-efficient appliances. The only failing was in transportation, where emissions have actually increased by 13 percent since 1996.
