What Will Be The New Excuses For Inaction?
H/t The Globe and Mail Now that the United States and China have signed a deal to drastically reduce their carbon emissions, one can only imagine that the Harper propaganda…
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Ocean Warming and Acidification will Crash Crabs’ Metabolism
Porcelain crab. (Image courtesy of Stillman’s Lab) BASED ON FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS, researchers believe coastal ecosystems will see increased extremes in low tide temperature fluctuations and drops in pH levels…
Apples and Mandarins
The logic of Fox commentators is, to say the least, difficult for an old fella like me to follow: Recommend this Post
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenny Uechi and Warren Bell expose Canada’s embarrassing place as the only government participating in a climate-denial group pushing for a dirty war…
Tens of Billions Wasted
How much will we keep spending to develop more fossil fuels when we know we have to stop to avert climate breakdown? $88b/year? More? How about zero. It’s time to…
No Surprises Here: The Fraser Institute Shows Its Biased Incompetence
Of course, right-wing groups like the Fraser Institute never let facts and data get in the way of a rabid ideology: Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rob Nixon’s review of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything nicely sums up why the book – and the fundamental clash it documents…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.“ ~Willa Cather *
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail reminds us why we should demand the restoration of an effective census, while Evidence for Democracy is making a…
Has Conservatism Become a Death Cult?
Some day our grandchildren will ask “why?” They’ll want to know why their grandparents’ generation failed to act against climate change while there was still time to prevent their own…
Con MP Supports Action on Climate Change? What?
What? What? What? What? Could this be the end of the denial of science? Chong for prime minister? What? “This most recent report concludes that the warming of the planet…
This Explains A Lot
The above picture helps to illustrate why industrialized nations seem so cavalier about climate change. Click here for details. Meanwhile, Stephen Harper’s climate soul mate, Australia’s Tony Abbott, has just…
OPEC Sees a Bright Future Ahead. Unfortunately, It’s Not Yours.
As far as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, is concerned the future looks rosy. In its latest outlook report, OPEC foresees $177 per barrel oil prices by 2040…
Beware The ‘Great Men’ In Our Midst
Were he perceived throughout the country as the legendary Canadian he is in his own mind, I’m sure that former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna would be lauded far and…
Tough week for Canada’s already poor climate change reputation
Canada’s dismal record on fighting climate change was brought into the spotlight twice this week — first with a crucial UN report spelling out the tough task ahead for the…
There’s Nothing Magical to 2100
A clear and usually overlooked measure of the threat posed to our global civilization by climate change and how pathetic is our response is the timeline. That’s the giveaway. We…
Carbon Energy Is Dead, Wake Up?
The math is so easy. So why is BC ramping up coal and LNG production? STOP THEM! It really doesn’t get any simpler than this. Climate realities mean not ignoring…
Let’s not be too quick to cheer for the market as oil prices slump
Another title for this piece could be oil prices and politics. The last few weeks have been full of worries about the fate of Canada’s oil sector. Global oil prices…
Creation mythology and modern environmental apocalypse
Apocalyptic painter John Martin’s “The Last Man” (Oil on canvas, 1849 – The Walker Gallery) The first thing to realize about the biblical Creation story in the first two chapters…
Harper’s War and the War He Won’t Fight
Well now we really are at war. Canadian warplanes have dropped their first bombs on Iraq.And in his command bunker or closet, Stephen Harper has been tweeting or retweeting up…