The NRDC released its annual “Testing the Waters: A Guide To Water Quality At Vacation Beaches” report last week, which included a special section dedicated to oil-related closures, advisories and…
Having difficulty celebrating Canada Day fully knowing only too well how the Harper Regime has embarrassed us around the world - most significantly on global warming and climate change and,…
Willie Soon is a darling of the climate change denialist community. He's a very rare commodity indeed - a genuine scientist with peer-reviewed studies who stoutly disputes the entire theory…
Happy Canada Day! What a week it’s been on the climate/weather front. Here in northwestern Ontario we’ve been experiencing a lovely June, although firefighters say it’s the driest summer in…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have…
In the course of Western civilization we have a rich history of blundering into emergencies unprepared, a history that teaches us the consequences of neglect are often horrendous. In most…
Many people like to point to the oil companies for the blame of Climate change, but households contribute to 45% of all emissions. That means if we wish to achieve…
We're on the war path, the actual road to war, and it's damned well time Messrs. Harper, Layton and Rae came to their senses.Canada's Department of National Defence has run…
Sandra Steingraber is a mother, a biologist, a cancer-survivor, and the author of several books on the dangers we are facing from the environmental toxins that surround us. Her most…
willie-soon.jpg Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil…
A fellow climate activist recently said that climate change is a gift to humanity, if we choose to accept it. What I understand from that is that climate change is…
Apologies for the extended absence, but there was a death in the family which absorbed my time for the middle and end of last week.. family comes before blogging. Anyhow,…
“With everything in my heart I said I don’t want the death of the Lubicon and Chippewayan Cree on my hands. Haven’t we killed enough people on this continent already?”…
After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make…
To Al Gore, Barack Obama isn't up to the job of tackling climate change. In fact, Gore thinks Obama is no better than Big Oil's favourite pres, George w. Bush.Mr…
… is a buncha crap, should consider this forecast for Inuvik. Yes, this is “weather” as opposed to “climate”. I know the concepts and terminology very well…. but if these…
I’m taking a sabbatical from writing for a while - for how long, I don’t know. I do know that I need a bit of a change/break. In the meantime,…
Its been nice knowing (almost) all of you. The tiny bits of plastic at the bottom of the ocean poisoning the food chain, and the floaty bits on top of…
lawsuit-500.jpg The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against plaintiffs yesterday in a lawsuit (American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut) brought by six states against several utility companies and the...
It is becoming increasingly clear how important the links between food security, decreasing our carbon footprint, and eating local are. Although for decades industrial agriculture has been touted as the…
