How global temperatures have changed since 1880 – video
Once again, indisputable proof of climate change! via The GuardianUK and YouTube: 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record, new figures show. This animation displays a progression of…
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Canada can learn from Norway’s management of oil wealth: Study
by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Jan 17, 2013: OTTAWA—A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the Canada and Alberta experience to that of Norway,…
Marc’s Enbridge Testimony
Testimony to the Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project By Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives January 16, 2013 My name is Marc Lee, and I…
Records Upon Records
In 2011 the United States set a record for record-breaking weather-related events. Record rainfall, record snowfall, record temperatures, record FEMA-declared natural disasters, record wildfires, and record drought. There were 3,251…
Book Review: Too Much Magic
While I enjoy reading the works of James Howard Kunstler, I’m always hesitant to talk or write about them. His low-tech vision of the future seems too far out there…his…
Worthwhile American initiative
Oh look, another dire warning in a government climate change report, you say. Well, yes and not all government reports are created equal. In the Green blog of the New…
World Economic Forum Releases Top Risks List
The World Economic Forum is fearful of an imminent risk of major systemic economic failure. “…high in the rankings of nail-biting concerns were also risks related to climate change, both…
What’s next for BC’s carbon tax?
An oped of mine was published by the Vancouver Sun today: What’s next for BC’s carbon tax? Marc Lee Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012,…
TED Talk Tuesday
Fascinating! Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with…
CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs out from storm
CTV: Toronto sets warm weather record, Manitoba digs out from storm : This weekend, Toronto and other areas of southern Ontario set all-time high records for temperatures in January. In…
The Week That Was: Extreme Weather & Extreme Politics
It’s been a fascinating week in Canadian politics, and an alarming one weather-wise across the planet. While Indigenous Peoples in Canada and elsewhere join together to say enough is enough,…
Climate Change Explained
By Bob McDonald, Quirks & Quarks The end of the Kyoto Protocol, and our inability to do something about rising carbon emissions, is like arguing over rising water in the…
Tarred and Feathered
It’s one of those “I told you so” findings, as the toxic fingerprint of tarsand oil production is found in distant lakes supposedly unaffected by the decades of strip mining.…
Idle No More Challenges Enbridge’s Pipedreams
“Everything that we do to water, we do to life because water is life. It’s not just us – we are all connected, we have to protect everything that lives,…
52C And The Colour Purple In Australia
It’s real, it’s happening, and it’s coming soon to an Arctic melt near you! Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars Forecast temperatures are so extreme that…
Idle No More Challenges Canadians’ Commitment to Truth & Reconciliation
As I write this, Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat Cree First Nation has been fasting for 28 days as she awaits a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Last…
New Report Connects Dots Between Political Inaction & Growing Cost Of Climate Change
This is a reposting from The Earth Story’s Facebook page: “The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. “ –Flip Wilson A new…