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I was discussing the heat yesterday with one of my doctors. He was born to an affluent family in Pakistan. While we were talking about the heatwave he mentioned that, in his parents’ vicinity, there were two places that had reached “wet bulb 35” or 35 C. TW. Wet bulb

After the last three days I’ve about had it with the Petro-Pimps of Parliament Hill starting with our prime-ministerial pipeline pusher, Justin Trudeau. It’s hard to put what we went through into perspective. Fortunately The Guardian has taken care of that: On Sunday, the small mountain town of Lytton, British

Lytton, B.C., a town on the Fraser Canyon, went into the record books on Sunday when it hit 46.6 degrees Celsius. Lytton went into the record books again on Monday by peaking at 47.9 C. Lytton went into the record books for the third time in three days today with

  A Canadian senator says Canada should stop criticizing China for its persecution of its Uyghur minority. Independent Senators Group (ISG) Leader Sen. Yuen Pau Woo said Canada should avoid criticizing China for its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims because our country has mistreated Indigenous peoples. Echoing an argument

Coming on the heels of consecutive days of record-busting heat, the Liberal government’s latest climate report is nothing short of pathetic. “There is abundant research indicating that current efforts to adapt are insufficient in the face of rapidly accumulating social and economic losses from current and future climate change impacts.”

  Two all-time records set on consecutive days. Take the sea-to-sky highway to Whistler then on to Pemberton, the sometimes challenging Duffey Lake road, Lillooet and then Hwy 12 south to Lytton, where the route becomes Hwy 1 through Hell’s Gate and on to Hope before heading back to Vancouver.

The New York Times’ Ezra Klein asks a question on the minds of many – can Western democracy rise to meet the challenge of the climate emergency? Klein has convened a panel of environmental thinkers. Their identities probably won’t mean much to those reading these posts and the article is

  That sums up the blockbuster report on “unidentified aerial phenomenon” that have been seen, tracked and recorded zipping through US airspace. The US government has said it has no explanation for dozens of unidentified flying objects seen by military pilots. A Pentagon report released on Friday says of 144

Former Afghan warlord turned president turned pundit in exile, Hamid Karzai, complains that the US and her allies “failed” Afghanistan and are leaving the country “in total disgrace.”  At least he didn’t say that the ISAF forces were “defeated.” Failure can be spread around. Defeat is something the military wears

You don’t hear much talk anymore about positive feedback loops, tipping points or runaway global warming. Those things don’t fit into the current narrative of our governments, especially the major emitters such as petrostate Canada. 15 years ago the pitch was that we had to hold anthropogenic global warming to

A 12-story condo in Miami suffered a partial collapse. Four residents died.  51 others remain unaccounted for. Some estimates have the missing at 159. Who knew? Who could have known?  A Florida high-rise that collapsed early Thursday was determined to be unstable a year ago, according to a researcher at