Saturday Afternoon Links
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…
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Quebec Breaks With Fossil Energy
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…
Musical interlude
Purple Disco Machine feat. Eyelar – Dopamine
Trudeau’s Lousy Bet.
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”…
The Climate Crisis – Why We’re Not Playing to Win
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…
Friday Morning Links
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.…
Nikiforuk – Back to The Future. No, Really. Party Like It’s 1970.
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…
Has the Other Shoe Finally Dropped? The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Adaptation.
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…
Thursday Morning Links
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…
Federal Government to Cut Fossil Energy Subsidies – As If.
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.…
Wednesday Morning Links
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…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Costumed cats.
James Lovelock Surfaces. How the Climate Effort Could Backfire.
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…
Fool Me Once…
A splendid speech by Justin Trudeau at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Lots of promises. He’s really, really good at those. We signed on to end deforestation. We’re in…
How to Livestream COP 26
If you want to sit in on any of the COP 26 sessions, the proceedings are streaming live on YouTube. Here’s the link: COP26 – YouTube You can watch recordings…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mark Armstrong reports on the G20’s agreement on a painfully-unambitious vaccination target for poor countries which is still unlikely to be reached.…
The Price We Paid
British Columbia had a blistering hot summer. The heat claimed nearly 600 lives, most of those in the final week of June. During the “heat dome,” temperatures rose as much…
No Free Lunch. You Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Taking a Big Hit.
Modern governments try to defray costs as long as they can. Where possible, they prefer to make them the next government’s problem. They’re already neck deep in red ink. It’s…
Can America Lead the World to a Brighter Climate Future?
As the world might embark on a crusade to salvage human civilization from the ravages of runaway climate change, the question is are we up to it? It won’t be…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Trevor Howlett warns not to treat a short-term drop in case numbers from an alarming peak as an excuse to stop taking COVID-19…