Wall’s Faulty Logic
“Showing leadership matters, signals matter, examples matter, but the numbers are the numbers,” Wall said. Essentially, Wall appears to be suggesting that because no single action by itself will solve…
climate change
Political Reality and Climate Policy: A Response to Mark Jaccard
Mark Jaccard’s article in Policy Options has generated a lot of interest. It is a provocative article that challenges the economic orthodoxy that prioritizes carbon pricing above all else. Jaccard…
Magical Thinking, No; Progress, Yes
As every critically-aware person well knows, we are facing some pretty daunting challenges; the most pressing is clearly climate change, more urgent with each passing day as we are regularly…
Some Americans Sure Do Love Their Ignorance
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says we should follow the scientific evidence about climate change, and then goes on to ignore it with confabulation and obfuscation. In Cruz world, it…
Stephen Harper and the Little Killer
When most people think of climate change they probably think of images like this one.A scorched earth, starving people, and wars over water.But when I think of climate change I…
Sanders’ Iowa “Win” and Clinton’s Entitlement
Clinton breathed a sigh of relief and spun the result: thanks for the “win.” This was no win. Despite the massive corporate media campaign to ignore Sanders, he did exceptionally…
Sanders’ Iowa “Win” and Clinton’s Entitlement
Clinton breathed a sigh of relief and spun the result: thanks for the “win.” This was no win. Despite the massive corporate media campaign to ignore Sanders, he did exceptionally…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Rachel Bryce, Cristina Blanco Iglesias, Ashley Pullman and Anastasia Rogova examine the effect of inequality on education in Canada. And John McMurtry comments on…
TransCanada’s NAFTA claims are based on the old normal
Thursday, January 28, 2016 Earlier this month TransCanada announced that it would be claiming comp...
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Ed Miliband offers his take on inequality and the political steps needed to combat it:(T)he terms of the case against inequality have changed.…
Laying Down A Deadly Bluff
For ages now Canadians have been conditioned to accept that we “need” more pipelines to move more oil. Otherwise we’ll continue to exhaust train crews and have bombtrains in every…
"The Ocean, If It Wants Us, It’ll Come And Take Us"
So says a bemused victim of climate change in California. Jaw-dropping and chilling is how I would describe this, yet another reminder of our powerlessness in the face of nature:Recommend…
Forget What Your Grandparents Told You
.... about going through five-foot drifts of snow as they walked ten miles to school. They never had to deal with conditions like this:Recommend this Post
A Graphic Illustration Of Humanity’s Hubris
People of a certain age will remember the commercial with the tagline, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Heedless of that warning, that's exactly what we continue to think…
Putting CO2 Emissions on a Map
In the fight to curb CO2 emissions and hold back the rate of increasing climate change, researches have mapped out where the emissions are coming from. Unsurprisingly, they have found…
Podcast: The return of the modernist left
In the past few years, what has been loosely called the modernist left has seen some revival. Whether coming out of the ultimate failures of the Occupy movement, dissatisfaction…
Podcast: The return of the modernist left
In the past few years, what has been loosely called the modernist left has seen some revival. Whether coming out of the ultimate failures of the Occupy movement, dissatisfaction…
Demand a Carbon Budget to trim Canada’s Climate Deficit
Monday, January 18, 2016 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to sit down with premiers &ldq...