Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Mason writes that Saskatchewan and Alberta are tragically showing the rest of the country what a COVID-19 disaster looks like. CBC…
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Lovelock’s Legacy
The venerable centenarian, James Lovelock, inspired an almost cultish following with his Gaia Theory. He proposed that organic life interacted with the inorganic Earth causing Earth itself to mimic organic…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monique Beals reports on Anthony Fauci’s recognition that attacks directed against him are based solely on denialists’ hostility toward the truth, while Mike…
Covid Claims Colin Powell
A son of immigrants who rose to become the first black general to chair America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell has died of complications of Covid-19. Not surprisingly, Powell…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Hannah Devlin asks why the UK is accepting a thousand lives a week as the price of incompetence in responding to the…
A Solid Majority of Canadians Have Had Their Fill of First-Past-the-Post Elections
A new Angus Reid poll finds three out of five respondents were dissatisfied with FPTP in the last election. But, hey, what do they want – democracy? “For many, the…
The Greenhouse Gas We Can’t Control
When we think of climate-killing greenhouse gas we usually focus on carbon dioxide, CO2. Some add methane, CH4, to the mix. It’s a far more potent but shorter lived gas…
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The War On Drugs feat. Lucius – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
"Creeping Normalcy" in the Plague Age
Britain is experiencing a new wave of Covid cases, 40,000 per day. Yet it hasn’t caused much reaction from the public. It sounds like the legendary stiff upper lip, the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public –…
Boeing 737 Max Test Pilot Indicted for Fraud
A former Boeing 737 Max test pilot has been charged with criminal fraud for allegedly withholding vital safety information about the flawed aircraft. It’s said that pilot Mark Forkner deceived…
The Workers’ Revolt – Paul Krugman
Have American workers said “enough”? Have they had their fill of long hours and low pay in jobs that offer few benefits and no security? Paul Krugman says their pent-up…
The Road to Glasgow – the Mess We’re Already In, a Recap
One measure of how critical the climate crisis has become is the early-onset impacts we’re already enduring. Severe storm events of increasing frequency, intensity and duration; unbearable heat waves; wildfires…
The Road to Glasgow – Apparently, "We Are Not Amused."
Queen Elizabeth seems to have had her fill with the yack-yack boys who pass themselves off as world leaders and their empty talk about the climate crisis. The Queen has…
Arms Race Update – F-35 Continues to Flounder
It first flew in 2006. After 15 years you might think the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, would have the bugs worked out. Not so much. The F-35 has always been short…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that…
Time to Get Tough with China?
In some provinces you can’t go into bars or restaurants without a vaccine “passport,” proof that you have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Next month Canadians will be…
It’s "Adapt or Die." What we’ll pay for ignoring climate adaptation.
I wonder if, in decades to come, we’ll see the Covid pandemic as a crisis that kept us from responding to the climate emergency. It’s clear now that, when it…
He’s Back. Well, That Was Quick.
William Shatner has successfully traveled from Earth to the edge of space and back in about the same time he takes for his morning bathroom break. At 90 he goes…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Fickling responds to the attempt by petropoliticians to blame high gas prices on limited climate action rather than the vagaries of commodity…