A Washington Post investigation finds that many nations are lying about their greenhouse gas emissions. Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a…
Since Covid vaccines became widely available, death rates in Red states are roughly three times that of Blue states. The more you like Trump the more you’re apt to die…
We’re in a crisis. Any doubt of that was erased by the summer’s killer heat domes, worsening wildfires, and prairie droughts. It’s also manifest in our warming and acidifying seas,…
This would have the global freetraders howling in outrage. Britain’s environment minister is floating the idea of imposing a carbon tax on imported meat products. said that in the long…
I know, let’s save the planet. Yeah… Okay, here’s what we have to do. Nooo, we don’ wanna… A study finds we all want to fight climate change – except…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller highlights what we can do to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the winter to come. And Pratyush Dayal reports…
One of Canada’s most prominent climate advocates, David Suzuki, doesn’t always see eye to eye with our prime minister. He’s tried but he sees straight through Mr. Trudeau. “When Trudeau…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zak Vescera reports on the Moe government’s full awareness that their elimination of public health measures would produce exactly the spike in cases…
Quebec has become Canada’s first jurisdiction to sign onto the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance launched at the Glasgow climate summit this week. The alliance members vow to keep fossil…
Purple Disco Machine feat. Eyelar – Dopamine
A report published in the journal Nature Energy predicts that Athabasca bitumen’s days are numbered. By 2036 half the world’s fossil energy reserves could become “stranded.” The bursting “carbon bubble”…
It’s been some time since I realized that we will never avert climate catastrophe until we recognize that Earth is finite and the only future for humanity depends on our…
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Emma Buchanan writes about the restrictions on media access that have resulted in people being poorly informed about the damage done by COVID-19.…
What if we could go back to the 70s? The early 70s. Global population stood around 3.5 billion (8 billion today). The human ecological footprint had not quite exceeded our…
It was a subject of some discussion years ago when the debate focused on whether the world had shifted from one geological epoch, the gentle Holocene, into a new, man-made…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christine Gibson writes about the need to start seriously fighting against the dangers posed by a climate breakdown, rather than merely hoping…
Sounds good but wait, there’s a catch. The Trudeau government has signed on to some other country’s initiative to stop financing Canadian fossil fuel projects abroad. It sounds like Mr.…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarath Peiris rightly calls out Scott Moe and his government for making it a goal to punish the poor within Saskatchewan. – Marco…
Costumed cats.
The venerable James Lovelock has chosen the opening of the COP26 climate summit to send a few words of warning. His message is we don’t stand a chance unless we…
