I’ve begun a series of video-essays on YouTube (my channel is here) titled "Welcome to our Semi-Dark Age". The first episode is now up (in three parts, due to time length restrictions by YouTube) – hopefully, my skills at video recording/editing will improve as I make more videos. Similarly, my pronunciation of English words remains a work in progress … In any case, I’ve embedded herein the
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The Disaffected Lib: U Vic’s Gift to the World
The University of Victoria in conjunction with the British Columbia government is releasing online a 4-part course on climate change. The programmes cut through the scientific jargon and present the facts in layman’s language. T…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Green Energy Proposals Part I: An Overview
With a variety of different green energy proposals floating around, it is worth recalling what the various schemes are and what their advantages and disadvantages are. In Part I, I look at an overview of the particular at the systems being implemented …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: FOX News Admits Global Warming Science is Legit
This FOX News panel has stumbled upon a breathtaking discovery – apparently this anthropogenic global warming theory is true. Yep, the facts do seem to back it up. Why they’ve even got the FOX “brain room” looking into it right now.So…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Hurricane Irene, Climate Change, and the Need to Consider Worst Case Scenarios
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In May of 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina, I wrote an article that nobody noticed. It was entitled “Thinking Big About Hurricanes: It’s Time to Get …
Continue reading350 or bust: The Radicals Are The People Who Are Fundamentally Altering The Composition Of The Atmosphere
From Tar Sands Action, an update on Day 4 of the two-week action in Washington DC against the Keystone XL pipeline project: Montana residents and Hollywood stars will be featured at Day 4 of the Tar Sands Action at the White House. The proposed Keyston…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Big Coal Faces Killer Argument in Court
It might just be the moment fossil fuelers dread most – their production tied to direct environmental consequences. The Queensland, Australia coal-mining giant, Xstrata is going to court today over a plan to mine 30-million tonnes of coal per yea…
Continue reading350 or bust: Tar Sands Pipeline Provokes Americans To Civil Disobedience
Saturday August 20th marked the start of the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history. Over 2,000 people from across the U.S. and Canada are arriving in Washington, D.C. to send a message to President Obama that our children…
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change Lite
This video has nothing to do with climate change, except as a reminder not to lose our sense of humour in these trying times. If it helps, you can imagine Stephen Harper or Environment Minister Peter Kent on the receiving end of the procedure:
Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Time To Enter a Twelve-Step Program For Our Oil Addiction
This was first posted on July 28, 2010. Unfortunately, it remains just as accurate a year later, despite the promise of the leaders at the 2009 Pittsburgh G8 to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Is anybody else getting tired of being told that we have t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Surfing the Wave of Change
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We’re coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th. The old economics, the old industrialism, the old geo-politics are hea…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Ontario Election 2011: This is, and must be, a referendum on green energy
In all of North America, Ontario is unique in its approach and scale of tackling the dual problems of declining cheap fossil fuel availability and global warming. It has implemented North America’s highest rates for feed-in-tariffs, a program that pays…
Continue reading350 or bust: End of the World Curriculum: Armageddon Vs. Global Warming
With tongue firmly in cheek, here’s a recent clip from the satirical news site The Onion: If you’d like to watch more from The Onion on global warming, click here.
Continue reading350 or bust: Fossil Fools Are Counting On A Finite Supply of Dead Things To Last Forever
It’s a beautiful sunny Friday morning in northwestern Ontario, and I see out the window my daughter’s brightly coloured clothes drying on our clothesline. The fossil fools who steer the ship of the North American economy these days can̵…
Continue reading350 or bust: Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists
Blacklisted Canadian artist Franke James is becoming a mosquito in the ears of the Harper government. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Harper government’s interference in the European tour of Canadian environmental artist, writer, and educato…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Green madness: how the green movement lost its way and alienated the public
Cross-posted from Irregular Climate Like it or not (I obviously don’t) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all depend on, it has failed to make the public understand the gravity and scale of our current environmental problems, and it has failed to get […]
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Russia Burns – Again
Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia’s wheat crop. So far this year, 1-million hectares of Russian forests have been burned out, already breaking last year’s record.The far…
Continue readingImpolitical: Carbon taxes may be the new debt reducers
There is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: “Debt is the new carbon.” His premise is essentially as his title states, that climate change, despite a lack of action to date, will f…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: What Global Warming And Abortion Have In Common
When trying to understand the political landscape it is often useful to figure out the various couplings and interdependencies between superficially disparate political positions. Politics divides itself into widespread factions, or parties, where ea…
Continue reading350 or bust: Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation Cree person. In April he wrote this column, Shape Up Or Ship O…
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