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Keep up to date with the Southwest Climate Change Network news feeds. Drawing on a selection of high-quality credible sources, the feeds provide quick access to new and recent stories on climate change and energy in the Southwest, cutting-edge climate change research, and climate change solutions involving policy, new technology, and the private sector.

California Climate Change News

Stories in this feed are from newspapers in California courtesy of Environmental Health News.

God is in the garden: A conversation with Scott Claassen.

Published by Los Angeles KPCC on April 24, 2013

To mark Earth Day this year, we're talking with Scott Claassen. He's a leader of Thad’s, a community of missionary Episcopalians in Santa Monica, and he advocates a "Carbon Sabbath."

Central Valley fares poorly in new California pollution index.

Published by Sacramento Bee on April 24, 2013

Central Valley communities are among the hardest hit in California under a unique new misery index that provides statewide mapping on community pollution, health and well-being.

Delta pipeline pact could 'get project done, then go away.'

Published by Sacramento Bee on April 22, 2013

Southern California water agencies have been quietly negotiating with state officials to take a major role in designing and building the giant Sacramento River diversion tunnels at the core of Gov. Jerry Brown's water policy for the state, according to documents obtained by The Bee.

Winemaking would suffer under climate change, study finds.

Published by Riverside Press-Enterprise on April 21, 2013

Grape-growing in the Temecula Valley Wine Country and other prime wine-producing regions of California would wither by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and farmers don’t make significant adjustments to their crops, say the authors of a new climate change study.

Oil pipeline expansion battle looms.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on April 21, 2013

As President Obama weighs the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, a similar project connecting Canada's oil sands to the West Coast is quietly moving forward, little noticed in the United States.

Most Christian pastors still deny global climate change.

Published by Redding Record Searchlight on April 18, 2013

According to a survey by LifeWay Research, you are more likely to deny global warming if you are a young, rural, Southern, evangelical, Republican pastor.

Climate change might sour California’s wine grapes.

Published by Sacramento News and Review on April 18, 2013

Agricultural regions important to food and wine production today are expected to shift northward as climate change takes its toll on the planet, according to a study recently conducted in part with UC Davis scientists.

Did Democrats actually discuss climate change at their California convention?

Published by Sacramento News and Review on April 18, 2013

With so much focus from the left on social and economic issues in recent months, some were gratified to see California Democrats take a strong stance on the environment.

Bay Area allergy sufferers having a rough season.

Published by San Jose Mercury News on April 16, 2013

Blame it on a dry winter, hotter-than-normal spring – possibly even climate change: This year has been a particularly rough one for allergy sufferers battling the pollen that early blooms have sprayed into the air.

Draft National Climate Assessment predicts more global warming woes for California.

Published by Southern California Public Radio on April 16, 2013

Climate change will bring significantly higher temperatures and sea levels to California by the end of the century, and it’s already worsening droughts and fires, scientists conclude in a draft report.