Maplecroft 2013 Global Risk Atlas
The Maplecroft consultancy has released its 2013 Global Risk Atlas shown in its most basic form here. Green is low, yellow is medium, orange is high and red is extreme.…
The Mound of Sound
World Press Photo of the Year 2012
This photo of mourners carrying the bodies of two dead children through the streets of Gaza City has been selected World Press Photo of the Year, 2012. The girls died…
Alberta to Obama – "Welcome Aboard"
Alberta Cons are warmly welcoming U.S. president Obama’s commitment to tackle climate change. In fact they say he’s just following Alberta’s lead. “After years of being out front alone on…
US Government Accounting Office – Climate Change Poses Big Financial Risks to Federal Government
The non-partisan, Government Accounting Office, has added climate change to its list of major threats facing the U.S. federal government. “GAO added this area because the federal government is not…
Is the GOP a Sinking Ship?
It’s a truly forlorn sight, a ship, broken in two, going down by the bows and the stern. But it may be an apt metaphor for today’s Republican Party. There’s…
Rainy Day Economics
I generally agree with Paul Krugman’s Keynesian economics. One part of the theory holds that, in times of recession, government should get capital moving again by spending on works projects…
The Power of the Carbon Bubble
The Carbon Bubble has arrived. It has finally emerged as a subject for consideration and debate. Hardly a day goes by that there isn’t some discussion of the Carbon Bubble.…
The Face of Corporate Feudalism
Democracy is reeling. Corporatist authoritarianism is quietly ascendant. Rights and freedoms are now being issued with price tags and, if you can’t afford them, you don’t get them. Zoe Williams,…
Think Climate Change Denialism Has Run Out of Steam – or Bucks? Think Again
The Guardian has discovered a secret funding vehicle used by Conservative billionaires like the Koch boys to funnel approximately $120-billion to climate change denialists over the past decade. It looks…
Extreme Weather Is the New Normal – Harvard Says So
How can something be both “extreme” and “normal”? That’s a question not addressed in a report from Harvard researchers into the short-term impacts of climate change on America’s national security…
U.S. Ambassador – Time for Canada to Get Serious About Climate Change
The U.S. Ambassador to Canada says Ottawa needs to follow Obama’s lead on climate change. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Ambassador David Jacobson said the message to move…
Matt Damon Wants You to Give a Shit About Toilets
Best if he explains in his own words in this video: It is the first in a series of YouTube videos put together by an unusual alliance of Google, Hollywood,…
Stephen Harper’s War on Working Class Canadians
She should be leading the opposition in Parliament. The Toronto Star’s Carol Goar shreds Steve Harper’s fiscal war on blue and white collar working class Canadians. Employment insurance, which once…
Only If You Really, Really Want to Know
If you’re looking for evidence or irreversible climate change – you know, runaway global warming, feedback loops – just look up, look northward because it’s happening right in our back…
Wrestling is Out?
Wrestling is being scrubbed from the Olympics. Apparently it’s a victim of dwindling popularity. Being considered to replace wrestling are sport climbing, wake boarding, roller sports and – wait for…
You’re Toast. Raytheon’s RIOT Has Your Number
Leading U.S. defence contractor, Raytheon, has developed RIOT, the Rapid Overlay Information Technology software programme that can gather, sort, digest and analyze all your social media telltales. It can even…
Achieving a Steady State Economy for Canada
What if the way forward isn’t? What if it’s time for us to turn around, to go back? James Lovelock said the future of mankind, if there is to be…
Pentagon Lowers the Bar on the F-35 – Again!
This line from Wired.com says it all: America’s latest stealth fighter just got heavier, slower and more sluggish. For the second time in a year, the Pentagon has eased the…
A Look at Our Parched Future
The World Resources Institute has produced an online map that reveals the water risks facing various regions of the world. Overall, and as expected, Canada isn’t too bad off with…
BinLadenLand
How do you fill the void when your most important celebrity is no more? If you’re Abbottabad, Pakistan, former retirement home of Osama bin Laden, you build an amusement park.…