Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Larocque highlights the Cons’ gall in hanging onto federal reimbursements from their own ad scam even after having admitted their guilt: You…
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Congress Says No To Free Climate Service
NOAA.jpg This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives sent a strong message to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – they’re not concerned about climate change. The NOAA…
Poet For the Planet, Drew Dellinger, At Occupy Oakland
“It’s time to rock the nation, rock this occupation! Our communities need us. We are all leaders. How could we ask for anything less than the future?“ A powerful video…
Anti-Science Hackers Recycle Stolen Emails Prior to Durban Climate Talks
It turns out the fossil fuel industry is into recycling (who knew?). The hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s climate centre have been re-released just prior to COP17,…
Canada’s Environment Minister Doesn’t Know What Ozone Is, But Approves Cuts To Ozone Monitoring
Unfortunately, this is the fellow in charge of preserving Canada’s water, air, and climate for future generations. The video below shows Environment Minister Peter Kent can’t respond to Justin Trudeau’s…
The Countries that Matter Most Throw in the Towel on Global Warming
It’s a chilling story, one that, if true, has existential implications for life on Earth. The Guardian reports that rich nations have “given up” on reaching a new climate treaty…
Solving The Big Environmental Calamities Requires Measuring, Research, Monitoring
Today’s guest blogger is Graham Saunders. Graham’s weather and climate background includes work with the Australian Weather Bureau, the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada and forest fire weather prediction for…
Greenhouse Gas Increases Accelerating.
The operative word is “accelerating.” The World Meteorological Organization reported today that,“the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2010 and that the growth of…
Climate Change Isn’t Happening If You Can’t Learn About It
How else can you explain the extraordinary efforts of the Harper regime and its US Congressional counterparts to suppress climate change information getting to the public. As chronicled in The…
The Denial Tango: As The Waters Rise Around Me, I’ll Just Hold My Breath And Say It Isn’t So
I’m on vacation this week on the beautiful West Coast. On Saturday I attended TEDx Victoria, which had a line-up of interesting and thought-provoking speakers who spoke for 10 minutes…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom rightly points out that the voters most affected by the Cons’ push for privatized pensions are the ones paying the least…
We’re Causing Climate Change. It’s Here and It’s Going to Keep Getting Worse.
So, it’s official. The latest IPCC report is out and it does link man-made global warming directly to the climate change we’ve been experiencing. The report also concludes that man-made…
A climate change challenge to foresters, engineers and biologists
Thursday, November 17, 2011 A new, ground-breaking report from West Coast Environmental Law – Climate Change and Professionals – is asking professional associations to ensure that their members provide responsible…
Climate Change Spin A Growing Problem For Fox News
fox global warming.jpg When it comes to climate change denial, a new study shows that the folks at Fox News are leading the pack. Through politically-charged news segments and commentary,…
Say goodbye to the frogs
Frogs are delightful little buggers. Look at this little rascal in the photo, a red-eyed tree frog. With his goofy expression and padded toes, you can’t help but love him…
On selective funding
Most of the focus on this story has been based on the exclusion of opposition parties from global climate talks. But the bigger scandal should be who the Cons are…
The Danube Runs Dry
The UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world’s major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water…
Robert Redford And I Occupy Vancouver
Never let it be said that as a climate activist I’m not occasionally smitten by the desire to do a little Hollywood star-gazing. In the past, I’ve been known to…
Who Occupies the Sky?
CCPA released a new report today by myself and Amanda Card that makes the links between inequality and carbon footprints. We look at the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions for…