Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
It really is hot in here: U.S. has warmest 12 months on record
May 15, 2012 at 1:53 pm
www.latimes.com
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Americans just lived through the hottest 12 months ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday.
Majority of Americans link extreme weather and climate change, survey says
April 20, 2012 at 11:13 am
www.greenrightnow.com
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More than two-thirds of U.S. adults believe global warming made several recent extreme weather events even worse, according to a new survey. According to the report, released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication, 82 percent of respondents said they had experienced one or more [...]
SoCal’s Plan To Fight Climate Change Moving Forward
April 4, 2012 at 5:25 pm
la.curbed.com
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The Climate Plan blog is reporting that the Southern California Association of Governments--the region's metropolitan planning organization--voted this afternoon to approve the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Community Strategies, a 25 year plan that aims to reduce vehicle miles traveled, carbon emissions, and sprawl for the region. The RTP/SCS responds to mandates made in the state bill [...]
EPA Takes Historic Step, Issues Clean Air Act Limits on CO2 Emissions from New Power Plants
March 30, 2012 at 12:14 am
cleantechnica.com
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Congressional Republicans squashed the Obama administration and supporting Democratic Senators’ latest attempt to eliminate oil and gas industry subsidies this week, but the Obama administration’s efforts to redirect energy policy away from supporting fossil fuels and towards clean, renewable energy continue nonetheless. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 27 for the first time proposed [...]
5 SoCal Beaches That Will Be Most Screwed By Climate Change
March 2, 2012 at 4:22 pm
la.curbed.com
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According to a new study estimating the potential economic impacts of climate change on Southern California beaches, scientists are models to project how climate change would alter the width of the sand, attendance and visitor spending at 51 public beaches in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The study looked at the effects of a one meter rise in sea levels--all beaches will get smaller. Here are the top five beaches that would net the most money and the top five that would lose the most if sea levels were to rise by a meter.
Map: Four of Five Americans Hit by Recent Climate Disasters
February 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm
thinkprogress.org
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A new report by Environment America, “In the Path of the Storm,” finds that “federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people – or roughly four out of five Americans.” Global warming pollution has already made extreme weather like intense precipitation, heat waves, and floods more likely, with [...]
NASA video: Global warming in 26 seconds
January 26, 2012 at 6:18 am
www.greenrightnow.com
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Scientists at NASA have produced a video depicting the recent rise in global temperatures over the last 130 years in a pattern of seasonal temperature changes and momentary spikes, with temperatures peaking in recent years. Nine of the 10 warmest years on record occurred since 2000. The average temperature globally in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F warmer than temperatures in the mid-20th century.
The State of Sustainability (Illustrated)
January 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm
cleantechnica.com
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This was originally published on Climate Progress and has been reposted with permission. It’s hard to rally around the term “sustainability” these days. When we consider the record amount of emissions we’re spewing into the atmosphere and the slow pace of change relative to our compounding environmental problems, the term “sustainable” has lost much of [...]
Rising Sea Levels Expected to Cost Venice Half a Billion Dollars by 2100, Economists Say
September 14, 2011 at 8:05 am
venice.patch.com
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With its wide swath of sand and additional attractions, Venice Beach won't be as hard hit economically by rising sea levels as some other beach areas, economists said in a report released Tuesday. However, the community is still predicted to lose out on about $439.6 million in tourism and incur $51.6 million in property damage through [...]
Report: LA region vulnerable to rising seas, flooding from climate change
July 27, 2011 at 10:30 am
www.dailybreeze.com
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The Los Angeles region is vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased flooding as a result of climate change, and efforts to plan for these and other water-related effects require more work, a new report has found.
Western water woes expected to worsen
April 26, 2011 at 1:00 am
Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western U.S., exacerbating problems for millions of users, according to a new government report.
Climate Change Shows Up in Our Coffee Cups
March 25, 2011 at 11:18 am
I’m writing this before dashing off to The Cow’s End in Venice. In many respects, that coffee shop serves as my office, where I can meet with business associates and share a stimulating cup of coffee while enjoying free Wi-Fi for my laptop. For most of us, coffee is a healthy drink. A team of [...]
