Author: The Mound of Sound

“Bleat, bleat. Bleat, bleat.” That’s about as much sense as you’ll get out of Canada’s environment minister, Catherine McKenna. The latest and most worrisome report

The time for pretending is over. World leaders have a “moral obligation to act” to avert the worst impacts of climate change and that’s going

The persistently optimistic, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, gives humanity twelve years to mend our ways. Within a dozen years, i.e. by 2030, the world

For the past three years since his “Canada’s back” performance at the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, our freewheeling prime minister has perfected the laughable pitch

When the Trump administration recently sought to justify scrapping Obama’s initiative to substantially improve vehicle fuel economy, it used what seemed to be a bizarre

One thing that separated the aristocracy from the plebs was the rule of law. Sure, in theory you might hang a nobleman as quickly as

In case you haven’t seen it yet –

It can’t be easy to be the bearer of bad news to a crew of powerful individuals who would rather not know. It must be

Manitoba has joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario in rejecting the federal government’s carbon pricing initiative. The Manitoba government says it is pulling out of its

The New York Times is dismembering Donald Trump’s claim to be a “self made man” who built an empire with his own hard work and

The revelation last week in The Washington Post was shocking. A lengthy report out of the Trump administration acknowledged what so many feared, we’re on course

The Trump administration says sure we’re on the path to oblivion but so what?  From the Washington Post: Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental

Then again, the United States is no democracy either so why should the US Supreme Court be held to the standard of a court of

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had nothing but praise for Kavanaugh accuser, Christine Blaisy Ford. Wallace summed up Dr. Ford’s testimony before the Senate as: “extremely

I’m not sure what keeps Green Party membership grounded. Their party doesn’t stand a chance electorally. Justin Trudeau put paid to that when he reneged

The planet, Spaceship Earth, our one and only biosphere, is in real trouble and it’s mainly our doing. The question is do we keep doing

Like many, I have snapped up Trump tell-all books such as Michael Wolffe’s “Fire and Fury,” Isikoff and Corn’s “Russian Roulette,” and Bob Woodward’s “Fear:

East of Los Angeles, about a third of the way between LA and Phoenix, Arizona within the Mohave Desert lies the iconic Joshua Tree National

It’s not just coastal British Columbians who are fed up with being stonewalled by the federal government over the hazards of dilbit spills. So is

Climate migration is about to become a serious headache for the United States and its federal and state governments. Migration is kicking off with sea