Conservatives: climate change deniers
BC Conservative Party leader John Rustad told KelownaNow that climate issues are not an existential threat and not a crisis. He said, "Matter of fact, I don't even think it's…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jeff Masters sets out some of the anticipated timelines for climate change to fundamentally reshape life in the U.S. - with immense disruption…
Yes, we should be very worried
Pat Mccutcheon is running for the BC Greens in Surrey Cloverdale. He recently pointed me to this video and said: "Probably the most powerful & disturbing video I have ever…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ayesha Tandon discusses a new study showing that the limiting factor in averting a climate breakdown is public policy rather than technological limitations. Aaron…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Watts reports on the effort by scientists to account for the unexpected acceleration of global warming. And Fiona Harvey reports on the immense…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Joan Westenberg writes about the insistence by Elon Musk and others that people be forced to listen to bigotry in the name of…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Syris Valentine writes about our severe and chronic environmental overshoot in using far more resources than the Earth can replenish. Clayton Page Aldern…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Richard Sandbrook makes the case for a Green New Deal as combining the ambition and the feasibility needed to halt climate change. And Stewart…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ian Urquhart writes that while it's well and good to insist that the oil and gas industry stop attempting to greenwash its contribution to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Fiona Harvey reports on the UN's warning that fossil fuel propagandists are engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to keep us spewing carbon…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Technical University of Munich highlights the uncertainties involved in putting a timeline on particular climate tipping points - even if their arrival…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gillian Steward asks how many communities need to be destroyed for the UCP and other climate denialists to start even pretending to care -…
We Give Value To The Worthless
I am currently reading a book by Michael Lewis called Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon. A story about Samuel Bankman Fried and his FTX crypto-exchange,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Julia Simone-Rutgers highlights how extreme heat (which is only getting worse) already looms as a major cause of death and disruption in Canada.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Matt Simon discusses the continued escalation of global temperatures to record highs (which only figure to be exceeded in the years to come).…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Simon Lee, Hayley Fowler and Paul Davies discuss how the climate breakdown has undercut the basis for existing models and assumptions about the type…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jess Thomson points out a new NASA video showing the movement of carbon pollution in our atmosphere, while Oliver Milman reports on new…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Crawford Kilian writes about the profound and numerous forms of loss arising from the wildfires which leveled much of Jasper, while Marc Fawcett-Atkinson points…
Letter from a British Prison: An Experiment with the Truth
I write more about Covid than climate because we can actually dramatically decrease the problem with rampant viral transmission in the next few years with tools on hand if we…