Climate finance
According to analysis by Oxfam published in 2023, wealthy Group of Seven (G7) countries owe low- and middle-income countries $13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action.
climate change
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steve Turton writes about the dangers of global temperatures which were far exceeding recorded highs even before the start of an El Nino…
Why people aren’t motivated to address climate change
If we choose to enrich our lives in the present at the cost of the quality of life of future generations, that is a choice of values that we rarely…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner discuss how even crucial advances like vaccines are under threat due to the ruthlessly persistent anti-science message…
Disaster city
“Canada is increasingly a riskier place to live, work and insure,” said Craig Stewart, Vice-President, Climate Change and Federal Issues, Insurance Bureau of Canada. The bureau’s stats back up Mr.…
BC’s climate policy inspiration
British Columbia’s government searched the world for options before settling on a climate plan acceptable to the province’s oil and gas industry. A creative solution was found in a report…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mitchell Beer writes about the Canada Energy Regulator’s recognition that the future will involve far less fossil fuel use than the oil industry…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nippon.com discusses a new survey indicating that a large majority of people in Japan continue to mask regularly to protect their own…
Climate destruction
The Donnie Creek wildfire, having now scorched more than 1.3 million acres, is burning in one of the world’s biggest gas deposits. The Narwhal reporter Sarah Cox believes this raises…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eyal Press writes about the problems with the U.S.’ health care system which forces medical workers to subordinate the health of their patients…
Danielle Smith Stands her Ground (or something)
Last week the Feds unveiled the Sustainable Jobs Act, Danielle Smith responded in her typical word-salad fashion and the press lauded her for standing her ground. Against what? The Feds…
A Laughing Matter
I got laughed at in the grocery store today. That hasn’t happened in a while. Cases of hospitalizations/day are at their lowest since December 2021 right now, which is fantastic,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexander Haro reports on the scientific recognition that 2023 stands to be by far the hottest year in recorded human history (even compared…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Scott Dance reports on the scientific recognition that the Earth’s oceans are warming far faster than previously feared, while Sid Perkins discusses the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses how many patients whose senses of taste and smell have been affected by COVID-19 never fully recover, while the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on Greta Thunberg’s warning that a failure to stop burning fossil fuels amounts to a death sentence for people living…
Climate Conspiracy
Journalist and activist George Monbiot wrote on why we can’t actually explain the problems with certain arguments anymore: Conspiracy fictions have succeeded, as Steve Bannon hoped, in “flooding the zone…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Piers Forster reports on new research showing that both greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures continue to push past all recorded records. Andrew…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the same plutocrats who have chosen to value the lives of most of humanity at nil are pouring…
The Politicization of the Beast
Welcome to “Life in a Conservative Province” also known as “they say the wackiest things.” “They” being conservative premiers who say idiotic things when asked: how do you reconcile your…