Per Capita Davis: How big is the battle?
“Dire” — an adjective describing an extremely serious or urgent situation or event causing great fear or suffering. Synonyms include horrible, atrocious, shocking, outrageous, unspeakable, alarming and grim. The front page, above the fold, headline in the May 7 edition of The New York Times…
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Per Capita Davis: Evidence pushes us toward urgency
The Dec. 5 “Per Capita” reported on recent studies by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment and was basically bad news, with calls for urgent action to avoid catastrophic effects of the Climate Crisis. The Dec. 19…
New Initiative to Prepare People for Climate Change
The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), supported by The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), is calling for a major West Coast initiative to prepare people for the adverse psychological and psycho-social-spiritual impacts of climate change. The Coalition released a report calling for transformational resilience education and skills training to become universal by…
John Garamendi: Climate change won’t wait
Climate change is not a future problem — it’s a now problem. In California, we’re already feeling the effects. Drought threatens the viability of our agricultural industry, which Is not just a huge contributor to our economy but feeds the nation and the world. Hot…
Per Capita Davis: The climate crisis report card so far
I worried a bit about the last column. It was pretty harsh. It reflected my belief that the climate crisis is existential and requires an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II for us to avoid very…
California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Trending Down, Let’s Keep It That Way
The bad news is that there is a 429 million-metric ton elephant in the room—the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) produced in California in 2016. (The 2017 total is still being calculated.) The good news is that elephant is getting smaller, shrinking a little each…
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Per Capita Davis: The media could use change of language
I hardly know where to start. One of my main conundrums in writing this column has been, over time, whether to “sound the alarm” and stress the urgency of action and the enormous potential dire consequences, or to try to look at the bright side,…
Our Children’s Trust: Court rules children have viable legal claims, sets court date
Editor’s Note: Please read the following update from Vic Barrett, 19 year-old university student from White Plains, New York, 1 of 21 young plaintiffs taking the United States government to court to fight for their constitutional right to a world that can host full, thriving,…
Fire in the Hole – The Burning of California
Editor’s Note: This month is the one year anniversary of the Tubbs fire, the most destructive wildfire in California history. Fifteen of the 20 largest wildfires in recorded California history have occurred since 2000. Wildfire is nothing new in our state. It is a natural…
Per Capita Davis: The ‘tipping point’ revisited
Back in 2007 when I began writing these articles there were a few terms that captured the discussion about global warming. One was the term in the prior sentence: “global warming.” It may have been adequate at the time, but the soft, fuzzy, cozy, under-a-blanket…
Regional report: Climate change threats, solutions for Sacramento Valley
Over the next few decades, climate change is expected to make the Sacramento region hotter, drier and increasingly prone to extremes like megadroughts, flooding and large wildfires. This is expected to strain the region’s infrastructure for water and energy transmission, agricultural systems, plants and wildlife,…
Per Capita Davis: Who’s going to pick up the tab?
We here in California have our battles over who will pay for massive infrastructure projects such as the tunnels to deliver water to Southern California and high-speed rail to move people up and down the state. Most of what was built, most of what we…
Per Capita Davis: Scientists got it mostly right
The article on the front page of the New York Times was headlined, “The Year Global Warming Turned Model Into Menace.” The article itself basically says that predictions scientists have been making for decades based on computer models have now been proven correct. The planet…
What does affordable housing have to do with climate change?
Throughout California, we are seeing two critical priorities converge: affordable housing and climate resilience. While daunting on their own, these intersections may offer helpful direction about how we might solve both problems. Adequate supplies of high-quality affordable housing and climate resiliency are inextricably linked. Any…
Global impact: 10 climate change insights from UC Davis researchers
Climate change means many different things to many different people, but one thing is clear: the issue touches virtually every aspect of the planet’s natural capital and affects society’s ability to solve pressing issues related to human health, the economy, and ecosystem sustainability. Research at…
Per Capita Davis: Here’s more on science and population
The last column (June 22) generated quite a bit of response. This column responds to some of the responses. Three people let me know about or sent me a copy of an article by David Roberts at Vox titled “I’m an environmental journalist, but I…
Per Capita Davis: The elephant in the room
This column is titled “The Elephant in the Room” because there is an aspect of the climate crisis that is rarely talked about, or at least not given primacy of place in ranking the many factors involved in heating up our planet. The issue is…
Per Capita Davis: What can valley gardeners expect as climate changes?
Three weather phenomena will mark the progress of climate change in our area. First, the West Coast ridge, stubbornly persistent during recent winters, blocking storms and leading to endless sunny days. It was a big factor this winter. Second, loss of tule fog and valley…
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