Another Informed Star Reader
Christine Penner Polle of Red Lake offers some observations that I suspect few but the most ardent ideologues would dispute: Re: Ottawa plans cuts to climate programs, March 12 Have…
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Stephen Harper, the Melting Planet, and the Collapse of the Capitalist System
He has tried to deny the reality of climate change as long as any crazed person could.Even as he torched the planet, and turned Canada into a hellish place.But the…
Saturday At The Movies
It’s astonishing how little we know about communicating with other life forms. Here’s an example of a dolphin in trouble “asking” some divers for help:
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall is again joining Stephen Harper in putting oil lobbying over the public interest – making excuses for doing absolutely nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
Stop Listening to the Big Oil Spin!
Do the math. Please. For a great long time, I’ve been talking about how we must dump the oil, gas, fracking, tankers, pipelines, coal…all the carbon-based energy systems because of…
The Window Of Opportunity Is Growing Increasingly Short
So says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if we are to take action to limit the global average temperature increase to two degrees Celsius: Six…
Saturday At The Movies
A Norwegian children’s charity left a thinly-dressed 11-year-old boy shivering at a bus stop in the winter cold to test how many people would spontaneously help him. * The advert…
Climate Change: Lines Of Evidence Part 7
If you missed the previous parts, you can click here to view them: Part 7: Natural Cycles Recommend this Post
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Hall notes that Brad Butt’s admitted fabrications can only hurt the Cons’ already-lacking credibility when it comes to forcing through their…
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 5 & 6
If you missed the previous segments, you can click here to see them. Part 5: How Much Warming? Part 6: Solar Influence Recommend this Post
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 3 & 4
If you missed the first two parts, you can see them here. Part 3: Greenhouse Gases Part 4 : Increased Emissions Recommend this Post
New Zealand – Australia’s Climate Change Lifeboat
Australia is somewhat ahead of the global average for climate change temperature rise. The country just passed the 1C mark. There’s obviously plenty more heat on the way in the…
She Looks At a World Reeling from Extreme Weather and Sees a Silver Lining
Record-breaking heat waves and droughts, flooding and the Polar Vortex have pummeled most of the Earth in recent years and, we’re told, this is a glimpse of even more extreme…
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Parts 1 & 2
The National Research Council has created a series of short videos offering a very clear explication of climate and the irrefutable evidence that it is changing. While you can click…
It’s Not Just Woolly Mammoths Surfacing from Climate Change
The retreat of glaciers has been turning up all sorts of stuff such as the remains of woolly mammoth that have been preserved in ice for thousands of years. Turns…
How to Explain Climate Change to Your Cranky Old Uncle
Relax, the hard work has been done for you. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Britain’s equally prestigious Royal Society, have reduced the science to a handy…
Perspective
This puts things into perspective. Happy World Wildlife Day! * And for some more perspective, here’s George Carlin on “saving the planet”.