Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, my sister-in-law Jen forwarded this thoughtful response to the terror attacks, written by Deepak Chopra. On this 10 year anniversary, these compassionate and prescient words…
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The World After 9/11
North America, in case you haven’t turned on a computer, television, or radio this past week, is remembering the terror attacks on the twin towers, and the Pentagon, ten years…
Reliance on Unconventional Gas is No Good for Climate, Says Scientist Tom Wigley
Screen shot 2011-09-09 at 11.40.30 PM.png A partial shift from coal to unconventional gas on a worldwide scale will continue to accelerate climate change for a significant amount of time,…
Extreme Weather Costing U.S. Billions – When Does The Climate Change Lightbulb Go On?
It’s been an exhausting and extreme year weather-wise across the U.S., as this pointed out in this Reuters article, Weather Disasters Keep Costing the U.S. Billions This Year. And yet,…
Meet Marlo Lewis: The Dirty Energy Industry’s Best Friend
marlo lewis.jpg When polluters needs someone to write an industry-friendly article, or make an appearance in the media to argue against the science of climate change, they often turn to…
System Change: Naomi Klein from Council of Canadians
Nothing Exposes the Failures of Our Economic System More than Climate Change, which is not merely an isolated, separate environmental issue, for the effects of climate change are in fact…
Beyond our wildest fears
I've frequently pointed out that a couple of the Cons' tax credit programs (implemented while they feigned interest in addressing climate change) made for the least efficient environmental programs on…
John Stossel Tells EPA To Pack Up Shop
john stossel.jpg Fox News host John Stossel says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has passed its prime, and is no longer useful. After the Obama Administration last week overruled…
Blueberries and Climate Change
It’s the Labour Day weekend in North America, signalling the end of summer. From here on in, the mornings become crisper and the nights cooler. Children return to school and…
Next Election, Vote For Penelope
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Science mag editor resigns after publishing faulty climate change denier paper
Disgraced Mr. SpencerEditor-in-Chief of the science journal Remote Sensing has resigned after discovering that the magazine had published an paper by climate change denier Roy Spencer that contained an 'egregious…
“We Are All Downstream”: Tar Sands Protests Go Global
Yesterday, 144 protesters were taken away in police vans from the front of the White House, bringing the total number of people arrested for peacefully expressing their opposition to the…
Our Land: Will We Be Left With Only a Memory of Beauty That We Might Have Protected?
American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams was a passionate advocate for national parks. Adams, who was best known for his striking black and white photographs of the West, died in…
Subliminal message in background of Al Gore interview? Bonus: Fox News North Elvis impersonator FAIL.
Love ya Al, but the background?Watch the Fox News North snippet of the interview. Brian 'The 50's worked for Elvis, why not for me' Lilley thinks Al Gore is comparing…
The Darkness Strikes Back
I've begun a series of video-essays on YouTube (my channel is here) titled "Welcome to our Semi-Dark Age". The first episode is now up (in three parts, due to time…
Missing the boat
There's good news and bad news about this Globe editorial today, "Canada in danger of missing the boat in the Arctic." The good news is that the Globe publicizes a…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Former U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis ended his moving eulogy for Jack Layton yesterday with this inspiring quote: Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a…
Of Course It’s a Hoax – A 35-Billion Dollar and Counting Hoax
Memo to Congress. The U.S. has tied its previous record for weather/climate-related losses. That's the bad news. The worse news is that it's only August and you've got three more…
Climate Mama: I Need To Be In Washington This Week For My Children
Harriet Sugarman, a policy analyst and economist, is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Mama which, according to its website, is: …about the facts, about getting the straight scoop,…
Giant Xstrata Coal Mine Challenged Over Climate Change Impacts
xstrata test pit at wandoan.jpg A GIANT mine planned in Queensland, Australia, is facing a court challenge over the impacts that burning its coal will have on rising sea-levels, global…