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SoCal Megadroughts and Megafires: Caused by Global Warming?

by Kit Stolz September 23, 2009

On an insufferably hot Santa Ana condition day in SoCal, with a big fire eating its way into the Moorpark area, it’s worth asking if the fires we face this year are directly linked to the lack of rain we’ve experienced for the last three years, and if they are linked, more broadly, to the “megadrought” identified by numerous researchers that has taken hold in SoCal in the latter half of this century.

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Ojai’s Lively Debate on Global Warming: World to Warm Faster Than Predicted In Next Five Years, Study Warns

by Suza Francina July 27, 2009

Two more articles to add to the lively debate right here on the Ojai Post.
Study: World to Warm Faster Than Predicted
New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics
by Duncan Clark
The world faces a new period…

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Earth Hour 2009 is TONIGHT!

by evan austin March 28, 2009

EARTH HOUR 2009 is tonight, 8:30pm local time. From EarthHour.org:

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their…

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Climate: It’s Not Just a Metaphor

by Kit Stolz March 5, 2009

On yesterday’s radio news show Here and Now, economist Roger Lowenstein warned that Medicare is on track to fail in 2016. By sheer coincidence, 2016 is also the year that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer, according to the climate pessimists.
But there’s a difference between these two crises. Fixing…

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Vote for Earth!

by evan austin February 28, 2009

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Launch of Satellite to Measure Carbon in Atmosphere Fails, Falls to Earth

by Kit Stolz February 27, 2009

Early Tuesday morning, NASA launched a satellite from Vandenberg Air Force intended to map the flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The rocket launch went smoothly, but three hundred and twenty five miles above earth, the satellite’s protective nosecone failed to open and brought the satellite back to earth.…

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Australia Burning Up and Drowning at the Same Time

by Tyler Suchman February 7, 2009

This week in climate change down under

As projected by climate-models, extreme weather events continue to intensify all around the world. Particularly hard hit this week is Australia. Drought and fires continue in Southeastern Australia where record temperatures are being set, while in the North in Queensland, torrential flooding has left communities…

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Updated Inconvenient Truth Comes to Ojai

by Lisa Snider January 23, 2009

The Ojai Valley Green Coaliton is bringing Gretchen Lewotsky (a.k.a. the Climate Jedi) to Ojai next week to present an updated version of Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Trained by Al Gore himself, Gretchen talked with me today on Radio Ojai about the latest information on climate change and…

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Steven Chu picked as Energy Secretary

by Brian Cox December 11, 2008

Obama has made an excellent choice for energy secretary ! I’m on board with Obama on this one. Steven Chu is the current director of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Picking a Nobel Prize-winning physicist is a great choice for energy secretary. Those concerned about global warming…

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Experts Agree on Rain Forecast: It’ll Be Dry. Or Not.

by Kit Stolz November 24, 2008

If you talk to the National Weather Service, they will tell you (link) that we’re in an “ENSO-neutral” condition, and for that reason they’re unwilling to predict the upcoming rain season in our region.

But according to this typically excellent story from Rob Krier at the San Diego Union-Tribune, many forecasters…

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