Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- J. David Hughes discusses the ultimate problem with new pipeline construction, as it's incompatible with any reasonable effort to meet even Canada's existing…
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We Can’t Have It Both Ways
Despite Justin Trudeau's sunny assurances that meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and pipeline expansion are not mutually exclusive, most people, if they think about it at all, will see…
Deny All You Want
But it will not alter the truth. Despite anthropogenic-climate-change denier Marco Rubio's publicly professed befuddlement over the causes of the toxic algae blooms in Florida and elsewhere, the answers are…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Reuters reports on Tidjane Thiam's recognition that inequality and underfunded education likely played roles in the Brexit vote's outcome. And David Blanchflower rightly…
Meanwhile, In Other Parts Of The World
.... things are hardly going swimmingly:Torrential monsoon rains along a stalled frontal boundary near the Yangtze River in China have killed 186 people, left 45 people missing, and caused at…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading:- Ross Douthat (!) discusses the distinction between actual cosmopolitanism, and the global elitism that's instead come to dominate international power relations:Genuine cosmopolitanism is…
Anyone Who Refuses To Connect The Dots Here
... will never accept the fact of climate change:Want more information on the dangers posed by algae blooms? Click here.And just remember, sports fans, these are only the preliminary rounds.Oh,…
The News Keeps Gettting Worse
In a column on Tuesday, environmental blogger Robert Scribbler noted that the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream had merged with the Southern Hemisphere Jet Stream.“It’s the very picture of weather weirding…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Mary O'Hara reviews Daniel Hatcher's new book on the U.S.' poverty industry which seeks to exploit public supports for private gain:(A) new book published…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Zon points out that while it's impossible to avoid rhetoric about eliminating "red tape" for businesses, we've seen gratuitous barriers put in…
Sustainability Needs To Be More Than Just A Word
A Star letter-writer has an insight on sustainability well-worth sharing: Re: Canada a model for sustainable forestry, Letter June 19Reading the response to Thomas Walkom’s editorial from Forest Products Association…
May This Day Never Come
I pray we never get to the day when scenes like the following become so commonplace that we regard them with only the passing interest we might today express in…
Our Unfathomable Equanimity
While the world convulses and gyrates over the results of the Brexit vote, I can't help but wonder why not even a scintilla of that passion can be brought to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Oxfam points out the latest World Wealth Report showing that extreme inequality and wealth continue to grow around the globe. And AFP reports…
Leader Post Sees Coal Future As Reality
The Leader Post published my letter, and a couple weeks later Murray Mandryk cites the same inexplicable 30-40 years canard. He also makes the same conclusion as Johnstone, which is…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Neil Irwin writes about the White House Council of Economic Advisers' study of employment policy which found that superior protections for workers (rather…
If Earth Was A Restaurant From The 1990s
One of the big problems with climate change, is even if Europe and Asia manage to create low carbon infrastructure and societies, it’s like a non-smoking section of a restaurant.…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Andrew Leach's after-the-fact addendum to his review of Alberta's climate change policy offers an important reminder as to the costs of inaction on climate…
I Kmow You Are Probably Tired Of This
.... but I suspect that our earth is growing even more weary:Recommend this Post