Major IPCC Report Tomorrow
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its latest major report tomorrow in the runup to the November, COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow. It’s the first major assessment since…
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Wings For a World On Fire
The prime minister is predictably crossing the country, pressing the flesh, and leaving a trail of billions of dollars in pre-election goodies. Nothing remotely unusual there. What is unusual is…
My Enemy’s Face
There’s an understated malevolence to these guys. They say the right things. They know what dangers loom. Then they lapse into cognitive dissonance. Alok Sharma could be their poster boy.…
TERFy Arguments On Twitter
Today turned out to be “Day of the TERFs” on Twitter for me. I realize that for all that TERFs and GCs like to think of themselves as “clever” and…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Holly Yan examines the growing medical recognition that children need to be protected from COVID-19 (and particularly the Delta variant). David Holtgrave et…
One Damn Thing After Another
Southeast British Columbia is a Conservative stronghold. The Tories pretty much have a lock on the Okanagan, Kamloops, Kelowna region – the same area that’s reeling from wildfires and Covid-19.…
Musical interlude
BT feat. Emma Hewitt – No Warning Lights (Alpha 9 Remix)
Wildfires Claim Second B.C. Town
Add the resort town of Monte Lake to the conflagration last month that erased the town of Lytton, B.C. On Thursday evening, the White Rock Lake wildfire jumped a highway…
I’m Sorry to Break the News to You but You’re Not Going To Win the Election
I just read the Green Party platform. I came away wondering what these people are smoking. For the last few elections I’ve voted Green, provincially and federally. Now I’m left…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Brooks Fallis highlights why a strategy limited to vaccines won’t stop a fourth wave of COVID-19. The CP reports on the call…
Angus Reid – the Pulse of the Nation, Lib Lead Widens a Smidge
Latest numbers from Angus Reid. Good news for the Liberals. They still hold a 5 point lead over Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives. It’s a 35 to 30 per cent split, probably…
Ah, Jeebus. Not the Atlantic Conveyor!
What next? Is the Gulf Stream, that does so much to regulate the weather in Europe and North America, on the verge of collapse? The research found “an almost complete…
Alberta’s Conservatives Are Abusers
It should come as no surprise to most readers that I have little use for conservatism in its current form. I think it has become something to be reviled, and…
But What About Syphilis?
Alberta’s medical officer of health, Dr. Dina Hinshaw, thinks she’s getting a bad rap for dismantling the province’s Covid-19 public health effort. She says lifting isolation requirements, asymptomatic testing and…
Define "Extreme"
The New York Times has a section it calls “Extreme Weather and Climate Updates.” That got me wondering how we should define “extreme” now that we’re truly in the throes…
Lousy Timing. Wildfire Closing In on Olympia.
With the Olympic games underway in Tokyo, the original site of the games, Olympia itself, is threatened by wildfires. The European Union sent assistance to Greece and other countries in…
Ottawa’s Epiphany – It’s Only Going to Get Worse
We’re on our own now. It used to be that, whenever Canada or the U.S. experienced terrible wildfires, the other would lend a hand. That was then. This is now.…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nora Loreto points out the thousands of deaths known to have been caused by the spread of COVID-19 in Canadian hospitals – and…
Betrayal
This summer, with its heatwaves and wildfires, droughts and floods, has left no doubt that the age of climate breakdown is here. All we have left to decide is how…