SF News Young Climate Activists Disrupt DNC Meeting In SF Calling For Climate-Focused Debate Activists from the Sunrise Movement made some noise Thursday during the first day of the Democratic National Committee's Summer Meeting in downtown San Francisco.
SF News California Considering Banning Sale Of Cars With Combustion Engines California could soon be making moves towards banning the sale of cars with internal combustion engines. This revelation came by way of Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, who had
SF News [Update] Heat Wave Likely Behind Death Of Six Bay Area Residents San Francisco's recent heat wave is now San Francisco's deadly heat wave, officials said Wednesday, tracing the demise of three residents to the city's record-breaking temperatures. Add to that a release Thursday from
SF News Ugh: Record-Breaking Heat Could Be Ongoing Trend For SF Bay Area Anyone who is dreading a return of 100+-degree temperatures in San Francisco should brace for it to happen again, maybe even this fall. Experts continue to want to be careful to attribute
SF News Trump Admin Pulls Ecologist From Zuckerberg Park Tour But It Totally Wasn't Over Climate Change Facebook founder and fleece enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg toured Montana's Glacier National Park on July 15 and as one might imagine, the tour's guest list was a hot-button issue. KPIX 5 reports that the
Arts & Entertainment Watch Apple's New Ad In Response To The Paris Climate Decision Airing during the NBA Finals is this pretty Apple ad, "shot on iPhone" by regular iPhone users, and written and narrated by Carl Sagan. "The Earth is the only world known so far
SF News California Cuts Its Own Climate Deals With China We mentioned this in brief yesterday, but in some pretty big news, California Governor Jerry Brown has just signed a pact with China's Ministry of Science and Technology to cooperate on climate research
SF News Elon Musk Snubs Trump, Quits Advisory Council Over Climate Deal Exit President Trump’s Thursday withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has elicited various denouncements and superlatives from left-wing heroes and elected officials, with reactions like “an international disgrace” (Sen. Bernie Sanders), “an insane
SF News California Drought Officially Over, Governor Declares via GIPHY After an exceptionally wet winter brought rains and record snowpack to the Sierra Nevada mountains, "This drought emergency is over," Governor Jerry Brown declared today, calling an official end to drought
SF News Proposed Embarcadero Fire Station On Floating Pier Could Rise With Sea Levels, Withstand Earthquakes A recently floated plan to replace aging facilities at Pier 22 1/2 on the Embarcadero would put a crucial fire station on a barge or buoyant pier, a floating facility to support
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heavy Rainstorms Caused By Climate Change Could Kill Off SF Bay's Wild Oysters For Good Its populations originally decimated in San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush and the consequent pillaging of every local source of food (more about that here), the Olympia oyster the West Coast's only
SF News Fighting Rising Sea Levels In Mission Bay Will Require Levees, Sea Walls Imagine walking around AT&T Park in the year 2100. Things might be different: For one, you might be protected from a greatly risen ocean by glass barriers of 3-4 feet. That's
SF News It May Be Too Late To Keep Tahoe Blue As we speak, President Obama is arriving in South Lake Tahoe preparing to deliver the keynote address at this year's Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual gathering since 1997 of federal, state, and local
SF News After Five-Day Sit-In, Stanford Students Protesting School's Fossil Fuel Investments Leave Quad Today is the fifth and seemingly final day of a sit- (and sleep-) in protest of Stanford students advocating that the University (endowment: $21 billion) fully divest from all fossil fuel companies, as
SF News Linking Climate Change To Banking, Protestors Shut Down FiDi Intersection Hundreds gathered in San Francisco today to rally for a fossil-free future! RT to support. #FloodTheSystem pic.twitter.com/nUhKwR89DU— Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) September 28, 2015 Yesterday morning roughly 100 activists by the
SF News New Study: Climate Change Could Turn SF Into San Diego, Temperature-Wise? We've heard various predictions before, but a new study based on climate-change models as they would stand today (assuming nothing more is done to curb emissions and temperatures continue to fluctuate as they
SF News Mapping The Projected 8 Foot Sea Level Rise In San Francisco A big new package of stories about sea-level rise from SF Public Press might just scare developers straight, as it comes with this spooky map of future San Francisco and points out 27
SF News Senate Candidate Wants Your Vote 'So We Don't All Die' When you enter Mike Beitiks' website, iwillnotdonothing.org, you see that his message is simple. He wants us to live. "ISIS. Obamacare. Russia. The NSA. Wealth disparity. Immigration reform. Gun control. What do
SF News Report: Droughts Likely To Continue In California, Maybe Forever A new report by some Stanford climatologists paints a dismal picture for California's future, suggesting that our current drought is absolutely tied to human-caused climate warming, and that the frequency of these droughts
SF News Study: Megadroughts Of A Decade Or More Headed To The Southwest Even though the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest might be sitting pretty in the next five decades or so of climate change, the same won't be true of the U.S. Southwest,
SF News Bay Area, Pacific Northwest Should Be Just Swell After Climate Change Though we know that rising sea levels are going to be a terrible like, actually horrific thing globally, and that the Bay Area stands to lose our airports, among other things, weather-wise we
SF News The Coming El Niño Could Lead To Warmest Year On Record Climate scientists are all pretty well on board with the prediction that this coming winter is going to be a severe El Niño season. And for those who did not live in Northern
SF News California Drought Caused By Climate Change, Says Study A new, real-time study from Utah State University climate scientists suggests that climate change is to blame for the "dipole" situation we had this past winter, the one that caused the Polar Vortex
SF News Tahoe Ski Season Will Get Much Shorter In Coming Years, Says UC Davis Study A new and alarming study out of U.C. Davis projects that snowfall in Tahoe will decrease by a third in the next forty years, and by two thirds by the end of
SF News Coldest Summer in 40 Years Produces Hottest August Day on Record Talk about global weirding: How about that heat yesterday, huh? Tuesday was the hottest August day ever in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service, tying the all-time high for the month
