Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews two new books on the effects of an overheating planet. Damian Carrington reports on the science tracing unprecedented heat waves…
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness
Substance use disorder (SUD) affects human’ brains and behaviors, leading to uncontrolled use of substances. Symptoms can be moderate to severe. For individuals, this might involve drugs or alcohol. For…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ekaterina Pesheva writes about the continued uncertainty as to the driving mechanism behind long COVID even as large numbers of people suffer…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Arianna Johnson reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can continue to affect organ function long after the lungs have healed. Philip Finkelstein…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rachel DuRose writes about the rise of the Eris COVID-19 variant, while Esther Choo notes that health care workers are bracing for another…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jennifer La Grassa reports on the impending wave of the EG.5 COVID-19 variant, even as Phil Hahn warns that what little and belated…
A Letter to Protest Moratorium on Renewable Energy Projects
Dear Readers: It’s August.We should be enjoying what’s left of summer but with the Smith government it’s one stupid thing after another. Premier Smith Smith’s decision to impose a 6…
A Return to Social Cohesion
Bill McKibben wrote about being asked Where Should I Live to avoid the climate change issues. He outlined the problems with many places that might seem ideal, and concluded that…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Hanwen Zhang highlights yet another rise in COVID cases – albeit paired with obviously-unwarranted minimizing of the risks involved. – Jessica Wildfire…
Collapse of modern society
University of Manchester’s Dr. Kevin Anderson is a visiting researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at Sweden’s Uppsala University. Anderson warns that continuing on our current path will result…
Unspent Billions Exacerbating our Healthcare Crisis
From MPP Catherine Fife: “Ontario’s Budget Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as…
Quantum Thinking in a World in Hot Water
Where are we going, and why are we in a hand basket? This is the summer that we can say climate change is affecting our lives, wherever we are in…
Hope or Doom: Can’t it be Both?
There’s a new type of minimizer article out about climate change: concern with it indicates a mental health disorder! It’s the same tactic people use to get the public to…
A world defined by impacts long called catastrophic
New York Times science writer David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, issues a weekly newsletter for subscribers. The August 2 edition is a powerful and disturbing look at the…
The Origin of Climate Goals
Professor Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and author, wrote an educational post about climate goals back in 2019, but it’s currently useful information to understand the news (since climate change…
Climate change denial, indifference, concern
— Climate change denial is based on prioritizing consumerism and wealth accumulation over human health and survival. — Climate change indifference is based on false hope, inattention, or ignorance. —…
Every alarm bell is ringing, but political reporters aren’t listening
I looked at the writings of Vaughn Palmer, a person considered by many to be the Dean of the BC Press Gallery. The province’s production of fossil fuels is accelerating,…
AMOC – What it is and Why You Should Care
AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It’s slowing down significantly, and people in the know are pretty worried about it. According to Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, AMOC is “a near-surface…
Methane, gas or liquid, is not clean energy
Governments responsible for regulation of fossil fuels are also promoters of its production and consumption. British Columbia has committed billions of dollars to encourage liquified fossil gas and has extended…
COP37
A Conference of the Parties (COP) is held regularly to assess the effects of the measures taken by Parties and the progress made in dealing with climate change. Dubai, most…