Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
The National Academies, America’s preeminent independent scientific advisory body, has produced a series of videos about the science of climate change. This one,the second in the series, explains how scientists…
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Media Quietude Over Climate Change
A few months ago, when we were seeing mid-summer temperatures during early spring, I remember Tom Brown, the CTV weatherman, looking grim and saying words to the effect that “This…
The New York Times – America’s Tar Sands Complicity
An editorial in The New York Times, “Canada’s Oil, the World’s Carbon” stresses that the climate change impacts of Athabasca bitumen trafficking must not be ignored. “…the climate question must…
Transformation
What are you making for supper on this Meatless Monday? Right now we have an abundance of swiss chard, although our other greens have been slow to come in. I…
The Cost of Profound Ignorance
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to admit that the profoundly ignorant deeply distress me, especially those who revel in that ignorance, wear it as a faux badge…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Y. Davis
Koch funded climate change study making news in a good way
Big climate change news that is making a splash, this New York Times op-ed by Richard Muller that gives an overview of a Berkeley study which he led: “The Conversion…
Saturday At The Movies
From The Post Carbon Institute comes this catchy video, We Quite You, Keystone XL (It’s Not Us, It’s You): * Until we show fossil fuel companies that we’re ready for…
Yes to a national energy strategy, no to tankers
Friday, July 27, 2012 Today (July 27th) Premier Christy Clark walked out of the Council of the Federation meetings, being held between Canada’s Premiers in Halifax, vowing that she would…
The SEC Weighs in on Climate Change
Climate change is a fact and, according to the powerful U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it’s a material fact that companies must disclose to their investors in SEC filings. Agribusiness…
Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing A Business Model That Is Destroying the Planet?
* In case you missed the news of the huge Greenland melt this week, you can read Climate Progress’s post on it, ABC News On Greenland Ice Melt: Scientists Say…
Satellites show melting over much of Greenland
More weird climatic stuff going on… though I have two questions: Did they really have satellites in 1889? How can something that happened before be “unprecedented”? Interesting topic – but…
Climate Science Denier Debunks Greenhouse Theory With Two Fish Cooler Boxes And A Roll Of Cling Film
IMG_0761.jpg SOMETIMES in the world of climate science "scepticism", things can become a little surreal. A bit odd, if you will, to the point where you need to inflict a…
Congress: Expedite Renewable Energy
solarf.jpg This is a guest post by Stefanie Penn Spear. Originally published at EcoWatch. In 2009 it seemed as though Congress was finally going to pass legislation that would transition…
Hope Is A Verb With Its Sleeves Rolled Up
Sometimes it feels like the forces working against a sustainable future for humanity – vested interests like Big Oil, Coal, & Gas, and the politicians they’ve bought, as well as…
Talking to Ottawa a Waste of Breath
Canadian environmental leaders are shifting their focus away from Ottawa and the Petro-Parliament and instead toward provincial premiers. Greenpeace is also placing its hopes in the premiers, saying Ottawa is…
Are You Ready To Sit Down For What You Believe In?
Who says building a better world is all work and no play? Who Gives A Crap is a fun campaign created by three engineers/product designers who have developed a toilet…
Drought…
Most of North America has seen a remarkable paucity of precipitation this summer. While this has been heaven for sun bathers, it has been a disaster for crops across the…
Understanding Harper’s Evangelical Mission
harpersmiles300px.jpg This post originally appeared in The Tyee, and is re-published with permission. Any Canadian listening to the news these days might well conclude that the Republican extremists or some…