Australia Feels the Heat
Australians may have elected a climate change denier, Tony Abbott, as their prime minister but that’s not going to make their climate change problems go away. The Hong Kong and…
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A Court Down Under Deals with Climate Change Migration
A New Zealand court will hear a refugee-status claim from a Kiribati man who contends he had to flee not persecution but climate change. Kiribati is a low-lying atoll in…
Deutsche Welle Living Planet 2013 Arctic Diary
This week, Deutsche Welle Living Planet broadcast the first of my audio diaries from the Students on Ice 2013 Arctic Expedition. This first audio postcard captures the reflections of Canadian…
Climate Change will hit Canada harder: international report
OTTAWA – The latest international report on climate change confirms that global warming is amplified in Canada and the trend is going to continue, the David Suzuki Foundation said Monday.…
With LNG emissions, BC will fail to meet climate targets
VICTORIA – A report presented to the United Nations indicates British Columbia is meeting its legislated targets to cut greenhouse gas pollution, but environmental leaders say that won’t last much…
Harper government claims to be leader on climate change action
OTTAWA – The Conservative government has responded to an international report on “unequivocal” global warming by slamming past Liberal inaction and renewing its warning of an alleged NDP carbon tax.…
Global warming will be long with us
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls it the “greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.” He is, of course, referring to climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on…
U.N. International Panel on climate change
“The Panel says we are hurtling toward the day when climate change could be irreversible with catastrophic consequences, they say. This group is now 95% sure that humans are responsible,…
Saturday At The Movies
Jimmy Kimmel’s humorous, if cynical, take on U.S. politics:
Stephen Harper and the Con Planet Burners
You couldn't ask for a scarier example of what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada, and what he is planning to do to the planet, than seeing how him and…
Climate change proven beyond a reasonable doubt
Friday, September 27, 2013 The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the first of 4 reports that make up its 5th Assessment Report. This first…
Coal Hard Facts #cdnpoli
It’s super embarrassing to have these sorts of puppet, lying people in office, when it’s so critically important for Canada to be making REAL, FACTUAL efforts against climate change. .@leonaaglukkaq…
IPCC: Time for a Global Carbon Budget
Political commitments on climate action, to the extent they exist, are usually pitched in terms of targets and timelines. BC, for example, has a legislated target of 33% below 2007…
"Unequivocal"
Leaving no doubt; clear; unambiguous. The latest IPCC report concludes that mankind’s influence in driving climate change is beyond doubt, clear and unambiguous. Anthropogenic global warming is here, it’s here…
Panel: Climate change ‘extremely likely’ man-made
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change STOCKHOLM – Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global…
Attacks on climate change science hinder solutions
photo: Dan Crosbie Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians…
Stephen Harper gives cold shoulder to Ban Ki-Moon on Climate Change (repost)
I did this picture in May 2010. There has been change for the worse. Now that Harper has majority he has become full time salesman for oil companies, Tar Sands,…
Scientists as certain of climate change as they are that smoking kills
by Seth Borenstein – Associated Press WASHINGTON – Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as…