4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice,…
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Linda McQuaig: Alberta And Climate Change
For me, one of the most disappointing aspects of the media coverage of the Alberta floods has been the relative dearth of commentary linking this monumental environmental disaster to climate…
#Fearless Summer: Healing Journey In The Heart Of Darkness
I’m leaving for northern Alberta early Wednesday morning, to make the 24-hour drive to Fort McMurray, the heart of tar sands country. Mordor. The 4th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk,…
President Obama Takes First Step On Path To Climate Sanity
As President Obama unveiled his plan of action to address climate change earlier this week, my husband and I were part of a group of 370 citizen lobbyists from across…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell discusses the inevitable collateral damage to our planet from the Cons’ war on science: Over the past 200 years, Canadians built…
On Corporate Welfare
David Lewis, the one-time head of the federal NDP and father of Stephen Lewis, used the phrase corporate welfare bums in his 1972 federal election campaign to describe the various…
Climate Change: President Obama declares war on the Flat Earth Society
The President has a fight on his hands. I wonder if he has been briefed about the Flat Earthers? They are a stubborn and dogmatic lot, forever fighting with those…
Global Warming: Right Here, Right Now
* I’m in Washington DC, attending the fourth annual Citizens Climate Lobby gathering. Monday morning, climate scientist and hero Dr. James Hansen addressed the crowd of 350. And today –…
Spending a Billion #cdnpoli
Many homes and lives were recently destroyed in Alberta last week. Warnings about where, and how to build homes were not heeded. A former Alberta MLA who headed up a…
Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin
By: Paul Brown, Climate News Network This piece first appeared at Climate News Network. The Mackenzie River Basin showing how it drains north to the Arctic Ocean. Image: Rosenberg International…
Committing Sociology or Climatology
The Prime Minister infamously implored people to not “commit sociology” when Chechen-American thugs blew people up in Boston. The PM’s point was that he didn’t want people analysing the root…
Saturday At The Movies
It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
Perhaps Its Time To Stop Talking And Start Acting?
For obvious reasons. Recommend this Post
Mother Nature, Pumped Up By Warmer Atmosphere, Swamps Alberta
* “If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try unmitigated climate change.” Dr Richard Gammon * The City of Calgary, home riding of Canada’s climate-denying, scientist-muzzling Prime Minister, ordered…
Canada v. Australia on Climate Science
Thursday, June 20, 2013 This week is a good time to think about climate science, and especially how governments listen to, and act on, the recommendations of climate experts. It’s…