Failing by any measure
It's no particular secret that "intensity" targets for greenhouse gas emissions are an utter joke, designed to facilitate the continued growth of heavy polluters as long as they make marginal…
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A Little Bit of This
Politics in North America are not going too well in my opinion. I don’t know many people happy with how it’s turning out either, which makes the election(s) this Fall…
More Evidence Of The American Right’s Intellectual ‘Limitations’
I have phrased this post's title as tactfully as I can, but I think if you watch the following video, you will be tempted to use other, more obvious ways…
Notes on the social cost of carbon
A recent paper by Ackerman and Stanton did some re-estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon, finding this measure of the externality (or costs imposed on third parties) from burning…
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It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a…
Decarbonizing homes and the price of gas
Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and…
Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn't some Tory bagman who isn't willing to try and sell it to us as a…
Today’s Climate Change Quirk
It's another of those never-ending "once in a century" stories. The heaviest rainfall in a century has triggered devastating floods and landslides in the Seoul area of South Korea. The…
The Harper regime targets @frankejames
Franke James » Blog Archive » Canadian Government Tries to Silence Franke JamesWe can't really say we're surprised, now, can we. Subtle and not-so-subtle threats, putting the squeeze on NGOs…
Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said,…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
This is a time to hold Norway and Norwegians, especially the victims of the horrific bombing and shooting rampage, in our thoughts and prayers. Extremism of any kind is a…
An observation of mine on the weather/climate change
When a cold snap or a blizzard hits the US deep South, those people who are climate change skeptics are quick to denounce “global warming” or “climate change” as being…
Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don't we have AC on Montreal's public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it's too expensive…
Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don't we have AC on Montreal's public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it's too expensive…
Murdoch-gate meets “Climate-gate”
What we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg. Keith Olbermann wrote yesterday on his blog about the connection between…
This Really Is the Pot Calling the Kettle BlackP
America's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a…
Insurance Corporations Believe In Climate Change
Never let it be said that all of the banks and corporations on the planet have their head in the sand when it comes to climate change. Why, just recently,…
Home energy retrofits: part one
I was in the budget lock-up in Ottawa back in 2009, when the feds announced a home renovation tax credit as part of the stimulus package, and one of my…