I get it. We’re exceptional. In the history of humanity there’s never been anything like us, here, today. We’re all but invincible, masters of all we survey. We tend to…
Triple digit temperatures, high winds and low humidity are returning to California over the weekend and could ignite a second wave of wildfires across the state. Red flag warnings have…
Premier John Horgan is the hands-down favourite party leader in British Columbia with a 17-point lead over Liberal leader, Andrew Wilkinson. On a party basis the lead narrows to 44…
In his latest column, Paul Krugman sees troubling hints of a terrible dictator in president Donald Trump. Like Stalin, he sees vast, implausible conspiracies everywhere — anarchists somehow in control…
In some ways the resurgent Covid-19 pandemic seems more urgent than the breakdown of our planet’s climate. Perhaps that’s because we’re doing way more about the virus than we are…
The idea of Donald Trump winning a second term terrifies a lot of people, especially climate scientists. Climate change is only part of their worries. From the MIT Technology Review:…
The American elections are barely five weeks off and the tension is palpable. People are on edge, worried about what lies in store for the United States and the rest…
Former US National Security Advisor, Susan B. Rice, writes in The New York Times that America today finds itself facing many threats but, in her view, the worst of all…
Donald Trump is shameless when it comes to praising his response to the Covid-19 epidemic. On the campaign trail he depicts his personal failures as an amazing success story, the…
The New York Times has published a ‘state of the climate’ piece based on interviews with interviews with two dozen leading American climate scientists. The consensus is that the changes…
You probably already suspected that the Mueller report fell far short of what had been expected. Among Mueller’s team of lawyers there was one who terrified Trump’s legal team –…
As if the rich need to give us another reason to despise them. This just in. The richest one per cent are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions double that of…
“Everyone who studies tipping point cascades agrees on two key points. The first is that it is crucial not to become disheartened by the magnitude of the risks; it is…
“The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” If there was ever an area where that adage is unhelpful it is probably climate change. Yet it remains our governments’ standard operating procedure…
Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is a man on a mission. With less than two months remaining before Americans choose their next president and the balance in the House and…
The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene. Exactly when and how it happened is the subject of endless debate but it has happened. The economic paradigm of the past…
I’m not convinced that we’re watching the end but I’m not confident that what’s playing out before us and our lethargy, even indifference to it, admit of some other future.…
Some Americans are beginning to ask, “is it time for me to leave?” They’re rethinking the choices they made on where they wanted to live, decisions that now seem unfortunate.…
In 2010 the world community agreed that action was urgently needed to slow the loss of biodiversity, a growing risk to humanity itself. Following meetings in Aichi, Japan, 20 targets…
There are many bats in Donald Trump’s belfry, some perhaps even more deranged than the lunatic in chief himself. Trump has the loosest connection with reality. At times it rivals…
