The final report on recommended actions and resources needed to achieve greenhouse gas reductions will be delivered in the last quarter of 2019 with the task force terminating on December 31, 2019. Members - Terms Expire 12/31/2019 Charles Barnhart Don Goldberg Christine Grant Derek Long Erin McDade Lynn Murphy Rick Nicholson [Read More...]
by Betsy Gross On February 6, I attended the city’s monthly Climate Action Task Force meeting. It had been moved from the Mayor’s Board Room to City Council chambers, as three experts were scheduled to make presentations using PowerPoint slides. I wondered if there were a second reason to move [Read More...]
At the May 7, 2018 meeting, the Bellingham City Council voted to establish the Climate Action Plan Task Force as part of the 2018 Climate Protection Action Plan. The committee consists of nine voting members appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council. The final report on recommended actions [Read More...]
Editor’s Note: This is the first column by Betsy Gross covering local committees created to tackle climate change. by Betsy Gross Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide need to fall by approximately 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 to avert climate catastrophe, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Read More...]
by Ray Kamada The latest Special IPCC (U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report, authored by 91 scientists from 40 nations, says we’ve already warmed the planet by roughly 1.0 degree Celsius (C), (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). (1) And, if business remains as usual, we have only 12 years left before [Read More...]
by Dick Conoboy The final buzzer indicating our last chance on climate change has likely already sounded, albeit muffled by ignorance, greed and downright stupidity. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, biodiversity chief at the United Nations, says we probably have two years to come up with global targets before it is too [Read More...]
by Ahmed Gaya This past year, Whatcom County has seen firsthand the consequences of a changing climate: wildfires that black out the sky, snowless mountain tops, and over-heated, dead salmon in our rivers. We have a mess that we know we have to clean up – we have to stop [Read More...]
by Mark Reynolds In its zeal to undo the legacy of our 44th president, the Trump administration is now undoing the future of our children and grandchildren by repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy designed to reduce the heat-trapping emissions that make our climate more and more inhospitable. How [Read More...]
by Lyle Harris Sr. Climate change is a bunch of nonsense. At least according to Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In fact, he supports eliminating the EPA, commenting: “I think people across the country look at the EPA the way they look at the [Read More...]