Legendary rocker Neil Young should mind his own carbon footprint, says Stephen Harper Read this Jan. 12 story from Sun News on Stephen Harper’s response to an anti-Tar Sands tour being led by Canadian-born rock legend Neil Young. OTTAWA – Responding to Neil Young’s anti-oilsands tour, the Prime Minister’s Office
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Dead Wild Roses: AGW – My Cold Weather invalidates your Science.
I’m amused. The denizens of Bullshite Mountain just *will not* give in to reason. We are messing with the earth’s climate and the best the right wingnutz can do is blame the government for attempting to infringe on their right to destroy biosphere. I’m thinking that when New York
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ray Grigg’s 2013 review: No platitudes, please
Typhoon Haiyan was a reminder in 2013 of the need for dramatic action on climate change Platitudes are wholly incompatible with our present environmental situation on planet Earth, so saccharine pleasantries would be quite inappropriate to summarize the events of 2013. The natural world continues to be under ominous assault.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Atlantic Canada faces climate consequences for our energy choices
Hurricane Earl strikes Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, in 2010. (Andrew Vaughan/CP) David Suzuki Foundation supporters who live in Western Canada often have eyes riveted on Ottawa to see what the federal government’s next move will be when it comes to environmental issues. So we sometimes too easily overlook Canadians in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Typhoon Haiyan tragedy shows urgency of Warsaw climate summit
As people in the Philippines struggle with the devastation and death from the worst storm to hit land in recorded history – Typhoon Haiyan – world leaders are meeting in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss the climate crisis. “What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: World Energy Outlook 2013 – Executive Summary
Executive Summary from the World Energy Outlook 2013 The International Energy Agency’s authoritative World Energy Outlook provides an analysis of global energy markets highlighting the world’s energy and environmental challenges. Orientation for a fast-changing energy world Many of the long-held tenets of the energy sector are being rewritten. Major importers
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: David Suzuki on right wing media’s War on Science
Sun Media’s Ezra Levant attacks David Suzuki on his Fox News-style show, The Source From government scientists to First Nations citizens and environmentalists, pretty much everyone working to protect the air, water, land and diversity of plants and animals that keep us alive and healthy has felt the sting of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Wildrose leader Smith admits climate change real, human-caused
RED DEER, Alta. – Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, under fire by critics as a weak leader and climate change denier, announced Friday she now believes climate change exists and that mankind is at least partially to blame. As her party delegates opened a weekend policy convention, Smith told reporters: I
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: IPCC report shows action on climate change is critical
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released the first of four chapters of its Fifth Assessment Report. It shows scientists are more certain now than in 2007 when the Fourth Assessment was released that humans are largely responsible for global warming – mainly by burning fossil fuels and cutting
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Climate Change will hit Canada harder: international report
OTTAWA – The latest international report on climate change confirms that global warming is amplified in Canada and the trend is going to continue, the David Suzuki Foundation said Monday. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was partially released Friday before being unveiled Monday in its
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper government claims to be leader on climate change action
OTTAWA – The Conservative government has responded to an international report on “unequivocal” global warming by slamming past Liberal inaction and renewing its warning of an alleged NDP carbon tax. The latest report Friday from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the planet is heating up and that it’s
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Panel: Climate change ‘extremely likely’ man-made
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change STOCKHOLM – Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday. Calling man-made warming “extremely likely,”
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Attacks on climate change science hinder solutions
photo: Dan Crosbie Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians have unleashed a barrage of attacks designed to discredit the science before it’s released. Expect more to come. Many news
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Scientists as certain of climate change as they are that smoking kills
by Seth Borenstein – Associated Press WASHINGTON – Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ex-Harper Minister Solberg renews Flat Earth Society membership
Flat Earth map from 1893, containing several references to biblical passages and jabs at “Globe Theory” Writing in the Calgary Sun the other day, former Conservative Party Cabinet Minister Monte Solberg claims there is “good news on the climate front.” Now before we get into this too far, this is
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: New York Times editorial slams Harper’s muzzling scientists
A recent rally for science in Vancouver (photo: Damien Gillis) Even The New York Times is starting to question Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s anti-science agenda, which recently spurred 17 cross-Canada “Stand Up for Science” rallies. In this Sept. 22 Sunday Times editorial, Verlyn Klinkenborg calls attention to muzzling scientists in defence of Harper’s oil
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Number of UK climate change deniers up 400%
Although the Harper Government surely has its share of climate change deniers, they are at least partially held in check by a populace who, as of a 2012 Insightrix poll, are firmly convinced that climate change is real. A rather meager 2% of those polled were climate change deniers. As
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Suzuki, Morton headline Monday rally for science
Salmon biologist Alexandra Morton (from “Salmon Confidential”) Over the past several years, the Harper Government has waged an unprecedented war on science in Canada – in favour of advancing its fossil fuel agenda. This has prompted a series of rallies across the country this coming Monday, co-organized by the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Stand Up for Science Rally – Vancouver (Sept. 16, 2013)
Fed up with the erosion of science in Canada? Want our government to support science in the public interest? Think that decisions should be based on evidence and facts instead of ideology? Join us on September 16th to Stand up for Science! Feat. Dr. David Suzuki, Alexandra Morton, Fin Donnelly,
Continue readingAt least the provinces (well, two of them) care about climate change
In a good news item, the governments of Ontario and Manitoba announced they will maintain the internationally renowned Experiment Lakes Area project. Ontario has committed $2-million a year and Manitoba another $900,000 over six years through its funding of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The IISD, a Winnipeg-based
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