12 Years Left and Over $200B to Fund
We have less than 12 years left to kick the oil bums out. The oil bums have left us with hundreds of billions of dollars in liabilities, while claiming our…
climate change
Worse Than We Thought
Yesterday, friend Mound posted a disturbing piece on the fact that the oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than expected. The implications for global warming are significant, and suggest, among…
Doug Ford and the Con Carbon Gang Dumbos
He's the self appointed leader of the anti-carbon tax gang. And Doug Ford has been on a rampage recently.Yesterday he officially killed Ontario's cap-and-trade program, while his ghastly Cons sang…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins discusses the obscene wealth being hoarded by the U.S.’ few richest families. And Owen Jones comments on the need for…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Kaufman puts our continually-rising greenhouse gas emissions in historical context, with atmospheric concentrations exceeding what they’ve been in the previous 15 million…
On Personal Hypocrisy
“The price of admission to the climate-change battle is hypocrisy.” I interpret those words, as best as I remember them from a book on climate change I recently read, as…
Biodiversity, Climate Change, and the Attack of the Ocean Cockroaches
Earlier today I wrote about a new report that shows that in the last fifty years humanity has wiped out 60% of the mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles who share…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Gavin Kelly writes that the UK’s welfare state has been shaped by the Cons to prevent working households from being able to aspire…
The Day Maxime Bernier Went Over The Deep End. Again.
As you may know, Maxime Bernier has always reminded me of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.The one who is travelling with Dorothy and the others, in the hope…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Barry Ritholtz comments on Donald Trump’s choice to model his budgetary policy on the combination of freebies for the rich and attacks on…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Levitz discusses the glaring gap between Americans’ policy preferences, and the outcomes from a political system which falls far short of…
Cross Country Checkup Climate Change
A show once hosted by climate change denier Rex Murphy, was asking some okay questions of callers, while other questionable questions were called out by callers. The last caller said…
Climate Change Education: Maybe Too Little, Too Late?
I’ve been teaching about climate change since I started teaching in 1991. Back then, most students just laughed, and I came across as a crazy person. I was fine with…
Andrew Scheer and the Scary Portrait of a Con Clown
When I saw this photo of Andrew Scheer getting his portrait as Speaker hung in the House of Commons, I couldn't help thinking of Oscar Wilde's classic story The Picture…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Kate Aronoff interviews Mariana Mazzucato about The Value of Everything, including some important discussion about the relationship between governments and markets: Aronoff:…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rupert Neate reports on the latest Credit Suisse study showing that wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few ultra-rich individuals.…
EG Radio Interview with Chris Turner
“If Canadians really want to see climate action, we need to hand politicians the political will. If we are willing to punish politicians who don’t put a price on carbon…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Don Pittis writes that the disastrous results of the U.S.’ giveaways to corporations and wealthy individuals – including a ballooning deficit which…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Cribb, Patti Sonntag, Michael Wrobel, P.W. Elliott and Carolyn Jarvis examine the Saskatchewan Party government’s utter refusal to monitor or regulate pollution…
How To Use The Carbon Tax Issue To Destroy The Cons
As you know, I believe that some of the most powerful Cons in the country, the ones I call the Carbon Gang, have made a fatal mistake.They have all vowed…