The other day I wrote a blog post on one of our national disgraces, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. While in Washington recently promoting the proposed XL Keystone pipeline through…
The last time I saw Joe Oliver he was still trying to sell his dirty oil pipeline.Still trying to convince us that the water from the tailing ponds was safe…
OMG. That wretched little Monkey King has done it again.Pooped on the planet. And shamed us in the eyes of the world.The Harper government is pulling out of a United…
It is without a doubt the weirdest weather I have ever experienced. One moment the lake was frozen.The next moment it wasn't.Toronto and London hit record highs of 14 C…
It was the first day of my holidays, and I couldn't wait to go sailing eh? But when Seb and I got down to the lake it was so hot…
James E. Hansen has some very impressive credentials. Not only has he headed the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 31 years, he is also an adjunct professor in…
A few months ago, when we were seeing mid-summer temperatures during early spring, I remember Tom Brown, the CTV weatherman, looking grim and saying words to the effect that “This…
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to admit that the profoundly ignorant deeply distress me, especially those who revel in that ignorance, wear it as a faux badge…
Recently I wrote a post about the chilling effect that the federal budget will have on charities, especially those devoted to environmental activism. Unfortunately, I chose to ignore another reality…
Scientific American is a respected journal of science. Why it publishes the ridiculous rantings of an anti-science flat earther is beyond me. But this John Horgan, apparently a teacher or…
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s one that gives some background about so-called “think tanks” and their anti-science, climate change denial agenda. These guys cut their teeth…
Adding the word ‘institute’ into one’s ‘think-tank’, a measure devised to give the patina of legitimacy to what is frequently simply a right-wing propaganda machine, is nothing new, given their…
From John Cook’s Skeptical Science blog comes this intriguing bit of factoid goodness. The 97% figure comes from two independent studies, each employing different methodologies. One study surveyed all climate…
In yesterday’s post, I railed against the hypocrisy of the Harperites in their efforts to convince us to boycott Chiquita banana over their refusal to use our dirty tarsands oil…
Yep, ol’ Tom is a denier and proud of it, boys ‘n’ girls! He also wants all deniers to ‘come out of the closet’! Er, Tom, hasn’t that ship already…
It turns out the fossil fuel industry is into recycling (who knew?). The hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s climate centre have been re-released just prior to COP17,…
I’m on vacation this week on the beautiful West Coast. On Saturday I attended TEDx Victoria, which had a line-up of interesting and thought-provoking speakers who spoke for 10 minutes…
Canadian journalist Mike DeSousa, who first wrote three years ago about the anti-science group with the Orwellian name “Friends of Science”, who funded a PR blitz meant to cast doubt…
When a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against…
Disgraced Mr. SpencerEditor-in-Chief of the science journal Remote Sensing has resigned after discovering that the magazine had published an paper by climate change denier Roy Spencer that contained an 'egregious…
