The Climate Change Deal We Cannot Live Without
Just what does all this squabbling about greenhouse gas emissions really mean? What has to go into an effective climate change agreement? What factors are in play? Here, courtesy of…
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US Lobsters Take Climate Refuge in Canada
They’re voting with their – oh, I don’t know – legs, tails, claws? However they’re doing it, American lobster stocks are heading north, to Canada. Lobster fishermen across southern regions…
Desmond Tutu raises climate compensation ahead of UN Climate Summit
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Last week Nobel Peace Prize winner, and one of the spiritual leaders of our time, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on governments to make fossil fuel companies…
Tory Hot Air Worsens Climate Change
Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean: Recommend this Post
A Small Clip Reveals A Big Truth
The National Post’s Jonathon Kay on the people he works with: Recommend this Post
Large hydro dams aren’t “green” – they actually drive climate change
BC’s WAC Bennett Dam (Photo: Damien Gillis) Read this August 14 EcoWatch column by Gary Wockner, which explodes the myth of “green” hydro dams – food for thought as Canada…
Climate Change March Highlights Global Issue
Demonstrations around the world. It is good to know that it has become international issue. Please watch the video here
People’s Climate March
On Sunday I attended a climate rally in Regina with what looked to be well over a hundred other people. It’s too bad more of the 33,400 Rider fans in…
Taking a Call for Climate Change to the Streets of New York City
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Read Lisa W. Foderaro’s comprehensive New York Times report that saw 100,000 demonstrators that hit the streets of New York city calling for action on ‘Climate Change.’…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Linda Tirado writes about life in poverty – and the real prospect that anybody short of the extremely wealthy can wind up there:…
Stephen Harper and the Climate Change Revolt
They marched in Canada, they marched all over world, and in New York it was one of the biggest demonstrations that city has ever seen. Legions of demonstrators frustrated by…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that to end your weekend. – Paul Krugman notes that a concerted effort to combat climate change could be as beneficial economically as it is important for the…
Take Time To March for the Climate
* Today we march. Even those who aren’t in New York City (like me). Do what you can. “To change everything, we need everybody”
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Arun Gupta on climate catastrophism and building a climate movement
This will be a weekend of global climate activism. Marches and forums are planned around the world, with the largest set for New York City: the three-day Climate Convergence and…
Shove Down. We Need to Set a Lot More Places at the Table.
It seemed like a grim consolation prize in the global overpopulation sweepstakes, the notion that mankind’s numbers would peak at somewhere in the vicinity of 9-billion before eventually ebbing to…
And Speaking of Disappearances…
It seems like the silence over the disappearing Environment Canada committee discussed in my previous post may have had its precedent set back in 2012, when another strange silence was…
No Surprise Here- An Update
Tuesday’s post discussed the apparent disappearance of a committee made up of representatives from Environment Canada, the Alberta government and oil and gas companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from…
Another Part of the Puzzle – Our Warming Oceans
The playpen of climate change denialists is on temperature change. They like to cherry pick statistics, sweep the bulk of the data under the carpet, and declare that global warming…