Water Rising! The League of Women Voters Benicia would like to invite all interested people to join us for a panel discussion, “Water Rising!” this Wednesday evening. Issues of climate change, sea level rise, water shortages, and increased water costs will be discussed. Panelists include Jerry Potter, NASA Climate Scientist; Andy Florendo, Solano County Water […]
Mark Altgelt: Stop an impending global crisis
By Mark Altgelt Special to the Herald (Note: This article has been corrected and expanded from the previous version.) Antarctica, Greenland and Arctic ice is melting because more than 90 percent of the heat from greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans and warm currents are rapidly melting exposed ice. Warm currents are […]
What Do You Think?: Benicians’ opinions on national issues, trustworthy news sources
With what can only be described as a chaotic, unprecedented period of political unrest gripping the country currently one cannot help but keep up with current events. News of the latest bombshell stories permeates into our daily lives, whether or not we want it to do so, and always gains access to our perception through […]
Mark Altgelt: California leading with climate change legislation
By Mark Altgelt Special to the Herald President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement makes California’s leadership role in addressing climate change and two related bills due for a vote soon in the California Legislature more important that ever. The California Global Warming Solution Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32) was groundbreaking legislation that took […]
Letters: Graduation requirements and climate change
Rescind new HS graduation requirements Dear BUSD Board Members, I ask the Benicia Unified School District Board of Education to revoke your recent decision to mandate that all high school students beginning in the Class of 2022 meet the CSU/UC entrance requirements. My reasons are as follows: ** I was not aware of any opportunity […]
Dennis Lund: Let’s call it ‘climate disruption’ — yeah, that’s the ticket!
“The Los Angeles airport’s going to be underwater, so is the San Francisco airport. You’re going to have to move all that, that’s billions, if not tens of billions.” — Jerry Brown, May 13, 2014 AS WE VENTURE DOWN LIFE’S PATH, we must acknowledge that there are those who are preordained to be our political […]
Jerome Page: Forget that heat; where’s my dividend?
I OPEN TODAY WITH A DAILY KOS BULLETIN trumpeting the courageous stand just taken by the Oklahoma legislature, which by a vote of 10 to 1 moved to block acceptance of proposed statewide science standards. It was very clear that the issue of climate change content was the critical reason for the action. The Oklahoma […]
A problem of science, and of understanding
AS A REGULAR READER of The Herald’s editorial page, in recent weeks I noticed that a fellow citizen continues to write and publish various bits of weather data from the U.S. and California. His postings appear to imply that climate change does not exist.
Jerome Page: Melting ice, and a salute to my critics
BEFORE MOVING TO A WARMING TOPIC, I thought to share with my readers a bit of my inspired fan mail as presented in the comments section of The Herald’s website. This is to confirm for all those who distrust my commentary that others do share their angst and that, while not quite in agreement, I […]
Bob Moore: Are California summer temperatures different?
ARE CALIFORNIA SUMMER TEMPERATURE TRENDS different from the rest of the mainland U.S.? Let’s look at the historical data. The 119-year maximum temperature record for California summers is shown in the first chart, and for U.S. summers in the second. Does the California record “agree” with the U.S. (year by year) over the 119-year period? […]