In the U.S. Senate this week, Senator Klobuchar called for Unanimous Consent to pass a resolution acknowledging that climate change is occurring and that it will continue to pose an ongoing risk. Senator James Inhofe objected to the resolution. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse offered this in cogent, informed response. * Whitehouse.Senate.gov
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NHL is worried about global warming—listen up, Mr. Harper
Surprising perhaps, but the National Hockey League now produces a sustainability report. And it’s worried about global warming. According to League Commissioner Gary Bettman, “Our sport can trace its roots to frozen freshwater ponds, to cold climates. Major environmental challenges, such as climate change and freshwater scarcity, affect opportunities for
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NHL & Global Warming: A Development Of Some Note
The NHL says that climate change is real, and announces measures the league will take to fight it. They’re worried that the gradual disappearance of outdoor rinks might be detrimental to the game. And it probably will be. Less access to free ice-time means, down the road, a smaller pool of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Perfect Storm that Will Defeat Him
He has yet to comment on the latest twist in the Duffy scandal. But in his shadowy bunker Stephen Harper must be feeling the heat.For by now even he must realize that the writing is on the wall.And that he could soon be sweating in a witness box.Trying to explain
Continue reading350 or bust: 2014: Hottest Three Months On Record, Ever
The hottest 3 months ever recorded. 2014 is on track to break a lot of records, in a bad way. * * Earth Just Finished Its Warmest Quarter-Year Ever
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Alberta’s billion dollar failed Carbon Capture “science experiment”
TweetA report from Auditor General Merwan Saher released this week found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has properly monitored the performance of the PC Government’s climate change strategy which was first implemented in 2008. The report also uncovered serious problems with the province’s expensive Carbon Capture
Continue reading350 or bust: “Exxon Hates America”
FINALLY: A TV ad that tells it like it is: EXXON HATES AMERICA (and Canada, too). The ad, from green groups Oil Change International, The Other 98% and Environmental Action, is a follow-up to last year’s “Exxon Hates Your Children” video. * Go to http://ExxonHates.com if you want to see
Continue reading350 or bust: Making The World A Better Place Is Your Joy
Shift happens. A movie made by a movement. * TheShiftMovie.com *
Continue reading350 or bust: Business leaders warn global warming is bad for the economy
If you are an investor, the risks of climate change should matter to you. That’s the message from the Risky Business Project, led by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, billionaire financier Tom Steyer and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. These business and political leaders have come together to quantify
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: It’s the Climate, Stupid!
Not two weeks since the federal government’s long-anticipated approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the magnitude of the obstacles faced by the project are becoming clearer by the day. There is widespread public hostility — both in Kitimat, envisioned as the pipeline’s end location, as well as across British Columbia
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Greenwashing Capitalism – Doomed to Fail
This is what we get for not changing the system that is killing us – a half-assed, piecemeal romp toward oblivion. “Richard Smith, in a tour de force paper published in the Real-World Economics Review, “Green capitalism: the god that failed,” summed up the dilemma: “[T]he problem is not just
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Scarborough Youths Reject The Lure Of Tar-Sands $
Overheard a young couple yesterday in one of Scarborough’s relatively upscale pubs. He had taken her out for dinner. They were both Millennials, sporting elaborate tattoos. He said that he had considered leaving for Fort Mac to shovel bitumen outta the tar-sands, but decided that doing so would mean
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Good news: China’s Fracking to reduce its use of Coal
Early China coal mine When it comes to global warming, coal is the biggest culprit in the warming of the earth. China is taking giant strides to reduce its need for coal to generate energy by exploiting its vast shale gas reserves: Although serious obstacles remain, China is finally making
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: CanadiAnt economy’s surprise weak start to 2014 blamed on bad winter
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-starts-2014-with-weak-gdp-gain-1.2659284 http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/28/3442208/meteorologists-climate-change/
Continue readingWhy is the environment considered primarily a left-wing concern?
Conservative and conservation are almost the same word, both deriving from the Latin conservare, “to preserve,” and differing only by two letters. We might expect, therefore, that conservatives would be great conservationists, deeply concerned about preserving the natural world, foremost stewards of the environment. Yet that doesn’t seem to be
Continue readingGoing … going … gone … Western Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea
It seems the planet is running out of ice. The latest news on that front came with two reports last week that said the Western Antarctic ice sheet is collapsing. The loss of the entire ice sheet could eventually cause a sea level rise of up to 4 metres. Studies
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "I’ve Gone To The Dark Side": A Guest Post From The Mound Of Sound
I received this essay from Mound yesterday. He asked me to read it carefully before deciding whether to post it, given its dark, apocalyptic overtones. I acquiesced in the Mound’s request and concluded there was no way I would not put it on my blog, dealing as it does with
Continue readingAre we gambling our economy on the tar sands?
Depending heavily for jobs, profits and taxes on our most rapidly increasing source of greenhouse gas emissions is environmental folly. It may mean more economic prosperity in the short term, but by contributing to global warming, it will undermine economic prosperity, and a lot else, in the long term. It
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Apocalyptic Scenes
While the fossil fuel companies and the governments that protect them continue to draw in record profits and conspicuously blockade any amelioration of carbon output, the real world pays the price: Recommend this Post
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