From the mouths of Muppets: Why climate solutions are “simply not done”
Last month, while reading and reviewing Too Much Magic, I came across a line in the latter half of the book that really stung: “Not even people who are preoccupied…
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Something In The Water
BCL on the chutzpah of Jonathan Kay, junk science enabler debunker: here’s a real lack of self-awareness here. Jonathon , after all, is comment pages editor at the National Post,…
Canada’s Lake Winnipeg is “Threatened Lake of the Year 2013″
Canada’s third largest freshwater lake in serious trouble by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: A report by a Germany-based international environmental foundation is reminding Canadians of…
What The Hell Are We Thinking?
This articulate teenager, presenting recently at the hearings of the Northern Gateway Review Panel, asks all of us a question we need to ponder in our hearts: * What will…
Sierra Club Canada statement on civil disobedience
by Sierra Club Canada | Feb 1, 2013: The follow statement originated from the January 31, 2013 meeting of the Board of Directors of Sierra Club Canada: “Sierra Club Canada…
Saturday At The Movies
Never tick off a frog.
A Fresh Look At The War On Terra
I don’t know about you, but I’m having a crappy Friday. Not much to be done about it now but hang in there, I know it will get better. In…
Stephen Harper and the Con Deniers
It is without a doubt the weirdest weather I have ever experienced. One moment the lake was frozen.The next moment it wasn't.Toronto and London hit record highs of 14 C…
EG Radio January 31 2013: Obama and climate change | Lisa Friedman | Idle No More
Download: earthgauge-podcast-jan31-2013.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, we’re talking about President Obama’s new commitment to climate change, the growing problem of environmental “refugees”, and the environmental dimensions of the Idle…
Nonsense Alert: When Canadian journalists succumb to climate denial folly
I don’t want to be one of those grandpas who spoils the grandkids with a habitable planet. It’s the same reason I will not buy life insurance. I get hit…
Will The Bizarre Weather In Ottawa Wake Up The Climate Zombies In Parliament?
* Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor and PhD student of abrupt climate change in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. He recently wrote this paragraph in…
Harper’s Priorities for 2103 – Environment Missing, Believed Dead
Steve Harper’s priorities for 2013, announced in a “rousing” speech to his caucus, are families, safety, pride and financial security. “Hear me on this, my friends,” the prime minister told…
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This is where we come from and what we are doing. It’s not nice, it is mindboggingly stupid. Maybe it all just boils down to brain chemistry, one insanely little…
Wonder why it’s been so cold recently when the climate is supposed to be warming?
Ottawa and other cities in eastern Canada have been experiencing abnormally cold temperatures this past week. Last Wednesday was the coldest day in 8 years dropping down to a downright…
Friday miscellany…
… colder than Vic Toews at a homeless shelter edition. Robbie’s Follies… Will he stay or will he go? We’ll know this morning. ================================================================================== As I am apt to do…
Chief Spence Ends Her Hunger Strike, But The Struggle Continues
* Chief Theresa Spence has ended her hunger strike today. Here is the press release issued by her and her supporters: * Daniel Wilson reflects on the legacy of Chief…
Ontario Forests Will Be Net Carbon Source Until 2040
Ontario Forest in Spring. (Flickr image by jd_09) Ontario’s Crown forests are expected to remain a net source of carbon emissions for the next three decades, according to the latest…
A blog post that fits the icy weather
News from Greenland from the past day: “Ice core drill gives insight into climate future.” An international study into the Greenland ice core is helping scientists predict what a future…