Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Topol writes about the new wave of COVID-19 decimating Europe – and the level of denial required to pretend that the U.S.…
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It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
There’s something out of the ordinary about a monsoon. It’s the deluge that seems to go on and on. Enviro-Can reports that the east side of this island has recorded…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Vidal discusses how the results of the Glasgow climate summit represents a failure by our leaders to act seriously in the…
How Are You Supposed to Tell Them Apart?
What does it mean when one “weather alert” blurs into the next? Environment Canada today issued a heavy rain alert for the coast. Some spots could get up to 200…
Get Ready for Tough Talk and Civil Disobedience
George Monbiot writes that, after the failure of COP 26, we’re in a fight for our lives. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Goldman interviews Raywot Deonandan about the options available to limit the spread of COVID-19 through the coming fall and winter. But while…
"Just Transition" – What the Hell Does That Even Mean?
The last thing the world needs in climate agreements today is weasel words such as “just transition.” These modifiers weaken the commitment. They can mean – of be made to…
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LAUREL – Appetite
Talk is Cheap. So is Life.
The COP 26 climate summit was supposed to catapult the 2015 Paris climate accord into reality. It was called the Last Chance Saloon in recognition that the time to take…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Mackay writes about new research showing the different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by gender – with the men who are disproportionately…
We’re All in Deep Scheisse
If the Republicans regain control of the Senate and/or the House in next year’s mid-terms or Trump reclaims the White House in 2024, the world is in deep scheisse. A…
You Gotta Love It. Gary Mason Takes Scott Moe to the Woodshed
Saskatchewan premier, Scott Moe, has always struck me as – what’s the word I’m looking for? – a buffoon. It makes me wonder what sort of glue Saskatchewan voters are…
Things Won’t Change Before We Scream "Uncle"
I just read Gwynne Dyer’s preview of the COP 26 climate summit published on October 31 but written a few days earlier. Dyer panned the summit, concluding that beyond the…
Is Our Planet Overpopulated?
Is our planet overpopulated? The answer is plainly and resoundingly “yes.” It’s not the fact of overpopulation that’s contentious. It’s more a problem of how that fact is exploited, spun.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Are you a Nikiforuk fan? Check this out.
Andrew Nikiforuk will be giving an address, “Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions,” at the University of Victoria on Wednesday, November 17th, from 2 to 3:15 p.m.,…
A Picture to Sum Up COP 26
From The Guardian. There, don’t you feel better? The Guardian spoke with six negotiators working on the final statement. Their enthusiasm seems a bit underwhelming. #1 The world needs a…
I Remember. Too Well.
Since it’s Remembrance Day, here’s a photo of my dad – sans a few parts, well stitched together, taken outside an army hospital in England. He’s chomping on a cigar,…
A Few Thoughts On The Rittenhouse Trial
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is a farce. A travesty, and potentially will end up being one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in history (and not just US history,…
Never Let Treason Go Unpunished. You’ll Regret It Later.
America is living with the consequences of a failure that dates back to 1865, when Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, sat down across from Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, to…