Union City, CA Weather

Updated:  Sun, 22-Oct-2017 1:00am EDT 
  clear Temperature: 54.4°F   /hr Humidity: 88% Dew Point: 50.9 Wind: WNW  0.0 mph Gust: 0.0 mph Pressure: 30.277 inHg   Steady Rain Today: 0.00 in UV-index: 0.0  None

Climate and Environment

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Current Air Quality Index Map

0-50	Good
51-100	Moderate
101-150	Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
151-200	Unhealthy
201-300	Very Unhealthy
301-500	Hazardous

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The Daily Climate

EcoWatch

• ?Geostorm? Movie and Climate Hacking: Are the Dangers Real?
  Oct 20 2017 at 3:20 pm EDT
  
  
  

  By Jane A. Flegal and Andrew Maynard

  Hollywood's latest disaster flick, " Geostorm ," is premised on the idea that humans have figured out how to control the earth's climate. A powerful satellite-based technolog...

  
  


• New EPA Climate Change Website Doesn't Mention 'Climate Change'
  Oct 20 2017 at 9:41 am EDT
  
  
  

  In the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to pretend that climate change doesn't exist, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has made dramatic changes to a website cate...

  
  


• Air Pollution Kills 9 Million, Costs $5 Trillion Per Year
  Oct 20 2017 at 9:17 am EDT
  
  
  

  By Andy Rowell

  "For decades, pollution and its harmful effects on people's health, the environment, and the planet have been neglected both by Governments and the international development agenda. Yet, pollution...

  
  


• New Evidence Suggests Ancient Egypt Was Brought Down By Volcanoes and Climate Change
  Oct 19 2017 at 12:18 pm EDT
  
  
  

  Ancient Egypt is often described as an exotic place?pyramids, hieroglyphics, lavishly worshipped kings and queens.

  But in many ways, it has a lot of parallels to modern life. It was an economically diverse, culturally vibr...

  
  


• Kids Harmed by Portugal Fires Reach Key Crowdfunding Goal for Climate Lawsuit
  Oct 19 2017 at 11:15 am EDT
  
  
  

  As Portugal reels from its worst wildfires on record, seven Portuguese children have met an important crowdfunding goal for their major climate lawsuit against 47 European nations.

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• Pushing Toxic Chemicals and Climate Denial: The Dark Money-Funded Independent Women?s Forum
  Oct 19 2017 at 10:22 am EDT
  
  
  

  By Stacy Malkan

  The Independent Women's Forum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has taken money from tobacco and oil companies, partners with Monsanto , defends toxic chemicals in food and cons...

  
  


• How Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing World Hunger
  Oct 18 2017 at 1:55 pm EDT
  
  
  

  By Leah Samberg

  Around the globe, about 815 million people?11 percent of the world's population?went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15 years. ...

  
  


• Judge Allows Vital 'Necessity Defense' for Climate Activists
  Oct 18 2017 at 11:30 am EDT
  
  
  

  By Jessica Corbett

  In a decision that is being called " groundbreaking " and " precedent-setting ," a district court judge in Minnesota has ruled that he will allow oil pipeline protesters ...

  
  

The Daily Climate Feed - Environmental Defense

• Pollution is responsible for 9 million deaths globally: Two-thirds are due to air pollution
  Oct 20 2017 at 2:44 pm EDT
  

  By EDF Blogs

  Dr. Ananya Roy is a Health Scientist

  Over the last few weeks as forest fires engulfed large areas of California, air quality in the Bay area plummeted. Doctors and pediatricians were on high alert to deal with the health impa...

  
  


• Yes, Administrator Pruitt, EPA Does Have the Obligation to Protect America from Climate Pollution
  Oct 19 2017 at 1:52 pm EDT
  

  By Tomas Carbonell

  (This post was co-authored by EDF?s Ben Levitan)

  The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again misleading the American people in an effort to avoid doing his job.

  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was...

  
  

Climate Central - News, Blogs & Features

• Here Are Three Ways Nanomaterials Could Help Combat Climate Change
  Sep 12 2017 at 10:50 am EDT
  

  By Bhavya Khullar, Ensia

  The list of environmental problems that the world faces may be huge, but some strategies for solving them are remarkably small. First explored for applications in microscopy and computing, nanomaterials — materi...

  
  


• Here?s How Climate Change Could Turn U.S. Real Estate Prices Upside Down
  Sep 5 2017 at 10:23 am EDT
  

  By Richard Luscombe, The Guardian

  If Florida gleaned anything from Hurricane Andrew, the intensely powerful storm that tore a deadly trail of destruction across Miami-Dade County almost exactly 25 years to the day that Hurricane Harvey ...

  
  


• Here?s How Climate Change is a ?Death Sentence? in Afghanistan?s Highlands
  Aug 29 2017 at 10:28 am EDT
  

  By Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian

  The central highlands of Afghanistan are a world away from the congested chaos of the country’s cities. Hills roll across colossal, uninhabited spaces fringed by snow-flecked mountains, set against ...

  
  

News

• Preparing Europe for climate change: coordination is key to reduce risks posed by extreme weather
  Oct 17 2017 at 2:55 am EDT
  

  

  Building stronger links between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction experts is more important than ever in wake of recent devastating and extreme weather events across Europe and elsewhere. Closer cooperation, including...

  
  


• Ireland?s Laura Burke takes up new post as European Environment Agency?s (EEA) Management Board Chair
  Sep 1 2017 at 4:57 am EDT
  

  

  Laura Burke, head of Ireland?s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took up her position as Chair of the EEA Management Board today, succeeding Elisabeth Freytag-Rigler at the end of her three-year term.