Dammit, That’s Piling On. Blame the "Wobbling Moon."
Sea level rise is already causing problems such as coastal flooding, salination of freshwater reserves and erosion. It gets worse when storm surge and seasonal high tides are added to…
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From Carbon Sink to Carbon Bomb
The world’s forests have traditionally been seen as an invaluable carbon sink. Those vast swathes of trees would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, exchanging it for oxygen. Together with…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marlene Habib writes about the continued efforts of grocery workers to ensure we have access to food and supplies in the face of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Attentive cats.
Hell on Earth. It’s Arrived.
“Climate change has loaded the weather dice against us,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy. “These extremes are something…
Country Ahead of Party? Fat Chance.
It’s enough to make Liberals giddy. A majority win for the LPC is a matter of dropping the writ. 338 Canada has run the numbers. It concludes that with barely…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kit Yates offers a reminder of ignoring the exponential growth of COVID-19 as the Delta variant puts many jurisdictions back on that…
Understaffed and Unprepared
Canada’s pandemic early warning system was not ready to meet the threat when Covid-19 hit our shores early last year. Canada’s Global Public Health Information System languished during the Liberals’…
On mood disorders
Summer is the time for reruns. And when your local political columnist keeps repeating the same patently false assertions about public opinion in the face of actual evidence, well… How…
Narrowing Our Focus
There was a time when we had the luxury of worrying over where the Soviets were positioning their tank armies or how fast their newest bombers flew. We had time…
Shaping Our Kids’ Future
It’s hard to scrounge up money for climate change adaptation when you need those tens of billions for more important things, pipelines. Just look at Justin Trudeau’s eager beavers driving…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably…
Dude, What Did You Expect?
Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell is scheduled to stand court martial next month for sharing pot cupcakes with her comrades in 2018. Apparently she distributed her goodies whilst her friends were engaged…
Faking Incidents To Attack Rights
The recent Wi Spa video incident in Los Angeles raises some very troubling implications about both the tactics that the Gender Critical / TERF crowd are now adopting, as well…
Is the Summer of ’21 a Turning Point or a Tipping Point?
NPR had an item this morning about Florida’s manatees dying off. They’re starving. Apparently warming waters are causing a die-off of their main food, sea grass. The victim du jour…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Richard Hurley discusses the findings of an inquiry showing that COVID-19 was treated largely as an opportunity for corporate profiteering rather than…
Smoke and Mirrors – Trudeau’s Climate Action Plan
Prime minister Trudeau recently previewed his government’s climate action plan and, as one might expect, it’s vague to the point of meaningless, just the way this PM likes it. Mr.…
Afghanistan Comes Full Circle
We had neither the will nor the means to win. Even if we did, we had no plan to win. Just what in hell were we doing in Afghanistan? What…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the debilitating lasting effects of long COVID. John Pavlovitz tells the story of his family’s experience suffering from COVID-19…
I Got Into It With a Republican Yesterday.
I was recently drawn into an online, Republican v. Democrat pissing contest. It began when this fellow claimed that America’s ills – the debt, the loss of its manufacturing base,…