An Open Letter to Kevin Falcon
Kevin Falcon Minister of Finance Government of British Columbia Dear Mr. Falcon, During your budget speech yesterday, you announced that BC’s carbon tax will be frozen, and its place in…
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I’m A Climate Scientist
After the last week’s revelations and counter-revelations regarding the Heartland Institute’s campaign against climate science and climate scientists, here’s an appropriate reminder (language warning!) * Don’t forget to go to…
Oilman’s Son At Enbridge Pipeline Hearing: It’s Time To Chose A New Path
The son of an oilman shares a powerful story at Enbridge Pipeline hearings, about an experience at an oil refinery on a different continent. He shares insights about tankers, pipelines,…
Whistleblower Authenticates Heartland Documents
Gleick.jpg Climate scientist Peter Gleick has acknowledged that he was the person who convinced the Heartland Institute to hand over the contents of its January Board package, authenticating the documents…
More Light Shed On Origin And Veracity Of Heartland Documents
Dr. Peter Gleick is the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. His bio states that he is a hydroclimatologist by training, with a B.S. from Yale…
Conservative conundrum: Navy head says Canada needs bigger presence in Arctic because of … oops … climate change
Harper wants more than just about anything to expand our military forces. He is also wont to acknowledge the effects of global warming on our environment. With Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
When asked at colleges if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science that describes what is happening…
Heartland Institute Funded By Fossil Fuel Interests To Work Against Public Interest
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s one that gives some background about so-called “think tanks” and their anti-science, climate change denial agenda. These guys cut their teeth…
Heartland Institute: Funded To Spread Misinformation About Climate Change
The Heartland Institute is a right-wing “think-tank” that describes itself as a “devoted to discovering, developing, and promoting free market solutions to social and economic problems.” However, as DeSmogBlog has…
Living On Thin Ice: Climate Change Impacts In Sierra Nevada
On Thursday, January 5, 2012, the Sierra Nevada Alliance led a 14-person expedition to the Sierra Nevada high country in Northern California. What is revealed is alarming: * Alarming, yes,…
P-Harmony Ad: Oil Execs Looking For Someone To Share Their Dirty Values
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s time to revisit this great Greenpeace video from 2011. Check out these “tar”-crossed lovers: Janet, an oil executive and Peter, an Environment Minister…
Canada’s Environment Minister Warns of Danger of Climate Change
Peter Kent in 1984, before he got sucked into the bubble, that facts can’t penetrate.
Mining Industry Caught On Tape Plotting To Corrupt Media
* This week Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in Fairfax Media, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten. But this new video reveals this move…
Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World
ANIMA MUNDI official trailer 2011: Will you survive the transition of human industrial civilization happening now due to peak oil and climate change? Can you see the forest for the…
Science: An Operator’s Manual For Planet Earth
The Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, Richard Alley is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently named a 2011 recipient of a…
NASA Video Debunks Climate Deniers in 26 Seconds
As obvious as tumor on a smoker’s chest x-ray, this 26-second video of the 131 years of temperature data demonstrates the consequences of our addiction to burning fossil fuels. It…
Canadians to PM Harper: No Enbridge Pipeline
I don’t see too many “jet-setting celebrities” in the crowd of ~2000 people that showed up to demonstrate their opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince Rupert British…
The Cornell Team Redux: Shale Gas a Disaster for Climate
Picture 3.png Unconventional gas offers no advantage over other fossil fuels when considering its impact on the climate, according to a new report from a group of researchers at Cornell…
PMO Issues Alert: “Foreign Radicals Threaten Further Delays”
Last night, Prime Minister Harper’s office sent off this “alert” to the media folks on its mailing list (via Kady O’Malley at the CBC). When I first read it, I…