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Tag Archives: #climatechange
An ancient Karuk story about wildfire management in California
With the rapid increase in deadly mega-fires in California, federal and state governments are turning to indigenous people for solutions. The US Forest Service is now working with the Karuk Tribe to implement prescribed burns to manage the land. Much has … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, california, climate, climate change, fire, forest, Karuk, land management, mega-fires, megafires, Native, prescribed burn, Redwood National Forest, redwoods, salmon, TEK, traditional, wildfire
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Birders detect dramatic changes as Davis climate warms
[A version of this was originally published in the Davis Enterprise.] In 2002, the cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a silhouetted man standing on frosty mauve ice and staring through binoculars into a rosy polar sky. The … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, birding, central valley, climate change, Davis, migrant, orioles, vulture, warbler
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Oil companies have researched climate change for 50 years– accurately
Long before climate change was controversial, before Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, before the public was even aware of greenhouse gases and sea level rise, the oil industry knew pretty much what we now know today. They have been studying, researching, … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, API, big oil, BP, california, chevron, climate change, CO2, emissions, Exxon, first amended complaint, global warming, ipcc, lawsuit, oakland, research, science, sea level rise, Shell, temperature
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California’s dirtier-than-tar-sands secret
Not all oils are created equal. Crude oil, which is not yet refined into gasoline and other products, ranges from thick and black to rather light and yellowish. Among the “cleanest” oils is Bakken, fracked from North Dakota. It has … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, california, cap-and-trade, carbon intensity, climate, CO2, CO2e, coalinga, greenhouse, kern front, midway-sunset, oil, production, quebec, san ardo, tar sands
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The basics of sea level rise
I was lucky to be out of town for a week during “the greatest statewide heat wave ever recorded in California.” When I arrived in Seattle, I was quickly informed that they had just set a record of 55 consecutive … Continue reading
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Tagged #climatechange, antarctic, climate change, CO2, greenland, ipcc, prediction, puget sound, sea level rise
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