Are our leaders pyromaniacs?
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climate change
Alternative energy solutions
Hydropower is dispatchable. It is generally reliable, can increase or decrease generation quickly, and can be shut down and restarted with relative ease. Provided the facilities are properly maintained, the…
Is Climate Inaction from Peak Individualism?
A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change. He tells us we can’t…
Carney, Smith and Eby’s climate betrayal
Governments acknowledge climate science, then pursue policies that directly contradict it. They transfer public wealth to immensely profitable corporations, encourage greater fossil-fuel dependence, and leave ordinary people to bear the…
What we pretend not to see
I recently stumbled across an American website: A Moveable Feed from buttondown.com. It promises to deliver "Blunt, funny takes on today’s biggest stories from a recovering DC insider." This week,…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Hamilton Nolan writes about the inherent conflict between the politics of centrist inaction and the serious and urgent problems which require courageous and immediate…
Wednesday Morning Links
This and that for your Canada Day reading.- George Monbiot points out that the determination by petropoliticians to deny climate change and the heat stress it causes is a threat…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Gregg Gonsalves discusses the Trump regime's plan to politicize every single dollar of federal revenue and expenditure in the U.S., setting up a…
Damn the climate science, full speed ahead! – UPDATED
During the 1864 American Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, Rear Admiral Farragut ordered his fleet forward after the vessel Tecumseh struck a torpedo—and sank. The admiral said something like,…
Can politicians sympathetic to unions be climate-conscious?
A strong labour movement can make climate policy more durable and socially just—but only when it represents workers rather than becoming the political defender of multinational, carbon-intensive industries.
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Michael Sainato reports on the California referendum which will see struggling voters get the chance to have their say on taxing billionaires. And Jennifer…
Creating new markets for a fossil fuel
The Tyee is reporting on why the federal government wants to promote and subsidize a national network of data centres. Apparently the Liberals discount peer-reviewed science that says the global…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Caitlin Johnstone writes about the reality that the whole of humanity is largely being used solely as a profit-generating machine for the benefit of…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Henry Miller calls out the Trump regime's sabotage against American science and research. Matthew Yglesias writes that the return of screwworm to the U.S.…
Tar sands pollution up to 64 times higher that official estimates
Peer-reviewed science found that emissions from Alberta's oilsands may be far greater than regulators and the public have been led to believe. Aircraft measurements revealed gas-phase organic carbon emissions up…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Danny Kennedy discusses the progress being made in the energy transition globally, as wind and solar exceeded fossil gas power generation for the first…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Monica Potts writes that Americans' dissatisfaction with their economy has never been about vibes or temporary price spikes, but reflects a lack of both…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Julian Spector writes that renewable power sources and battery storage are becoming ensconced as the best energy supply option for any government which…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Alistair Alexander discusses how AI has been turned into a multi-trillion-dollar collapse machine, while Benjamin Lopez Steven and Kate McKenna report on the Carney…