White Water, Black Gold
You can’t practice abstinence while running a brothel. Yet politicians of almost all stripes talk simultaneously about developing the Alberta oil sands while getting serous about reducing carbon emissions. Sound…
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Go Canucks…and a few other things
It's the big Canucks game day and all so people are likely not going to be very interested in Canadian politics. But some big things are happening that bear mentioning.…
Atmospheric Trust Litigation
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Do the governments of the world have a legal duty to protect the atmosphere...
Eating Local Is Delicious With Rhubarb Kuchen
Here in northern Ontario where I live, rhubarb is the first harvest from the garden that we look forward to. In anticipation of a meal of homemade pasta and grilled…
Hack Pundit Of The Week: Bronwyn Eyre
I often wonder if newspapers aren't better off publishing high school essays instead of paying columnists. The writing might suffer but the research would be much better.Case in point: Bronwyn…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” ~ Albert Einstein
On incomplete reporting
Yes, it's a problem if the Cons are giving different answers about climate-change policy to different audiences. But I'm not sure how the difference between federal action making next to…
Analysis of Britain’s Shape After Sea Level Rise, Ken To Barbie “It’s Over”, And More News
It’s Friday, and I’m just wrapping up two very time-consuming work projects, which means I’m in the mood for some good news, and a good laugh – come to think…
Bill McKibben’s Recent Op-Ed On Climate and Severe Weather Remixed Into Video
Check out this excellent video version of Bill McKibben's recent Washington Post op-ed "A link between climate change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!" Narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plonomedia.com,…
The Trouble With Carbon
More from The Agenda With Steve Paikin, this week broadcasting from the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 – Ingenuity in Energy Solutions being held at the University of Waterloo. Last night’s…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans' plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare,…
Built to crash: the coming economic tsunami
`Would you rather have a perfectly efficient system that, if hit by a pebble, would shatter? Or, would you rather have an adaptable system that may not give you the…
The Problem We’ve Created
The world needs to reduce carbon emissions. While oil and gas were cheap, there were few incentives to seek newer, cleaner and renewable resources. But time is now the biggest…
Eating Local Is Delicious
Where we live in northwestern Ontario we don’t have access to a lot of local market gardens or farms. But what we do have on our doorstep are lakes full…
Ralliers March To Preserve Blair Mountain And Stop Mountaintop Removal
mountaintop-removal-mining-video.jpg This week, hundreds of marchers will convene in the West Virginian wilderness to walk over 50 miles in 5 days. Organized by Friends of Blair Mountain and A...
Carbon tax campaign brings climate of intimidation in Australia
Remarkable goings on in Australia: "Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying." Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in…
Scientists face death threats in Australia due to Climate Change views
The anti-science global warming deniers are getting desperate if not downright delirious. One can doubt that climate change is actually underway and question whether humans are at least partially responsible…
Post C40 Summit Cities Need to "Go Big or Go Home" on Climate Policy
[I've got a new piece running over at The Mark News. The latest Clinton C40 urban climate summit just wrapped up in Brazil, and as always there's been a flood…
Some Saturday Fun
Even climate hawks take a day off now and then, so that’s what I’m doing today.If you’re in need of some lightheartedness, too, check out this video of a cat…
Climate Scientist Heidi Cullen On The “C-Word”
Climate Quote of the Day: But even though we don’t have all the answers — and maybe never will — we do know enough to act. And that is really…