Irene Track Aug 25.gif In May of 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina, I wrote an article that nobody noticed. It was entitled “Thinking Big About Hurricanes: It’s Time…
From Tar Sands Action, an update on Day 4 of the two-week action in Washington DC against the Keystone XL pipeline project: Montana residents and Hollywood stars will be featured…
It might just be the moment fossil fuelers dread most - their production tied to direct environmental consequences. The Queensland, Australia coal-mining giant, Xstrata is going to court today over…
Saturday August 20th marked the start of the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history. Over 2,000 people from across the U.S. and Canada are arriving…
This video has nothing to do with climate change, except as a reminder not to lose our sense of humour in these trying times. If it helps, you can imagine…
This was first posted on July 28, 2010. Unfortunately, it remains just as accurate a year later, despite the promise of the leaders at the 2009 Pittsburgh G8 to eliminate…
The enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th.…
In all of North America, Ontario is unique in its approach and scale of tackling the dual problems of declining cheap fossil fuel availability and global warming. It has implemented…
With tongue firmly in cheek, here’s a recent clip from the satirical news site The Onion: If you’d like to watch more from The Onion on global warming, click…
It’s a beautiful sunny Friday morning in northwestern Ontario, and I see out the window my daughter’s brightly coloured clothes drying on our clothesline. The fossil fools who steer the…
Blacklisted Canadian artist Franke James is becoming a mosquito in the ears of the Harper government. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Harper government’s interference in the European tour…
Cross-posted from Irregular Climate Like it or not (I obviously don’t) the green movement has failed. It has failed to inspire the public to care about the environment we all…
Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia's wheat crop. So far this year, 1-million hectares of Russian forests…
There is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: "Debt is the new carbon." His premise is essentially…
When trying to understand the political landscape it is often useful to figure out the various couplings and interdependencies between superficially disparate political positions. Politics divides itself into widespread factions,…
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation…
Former federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while…
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a…
The Harper Government is sending out a clear message at home and abroad that if your politics are not correct your art shouldn’t be shown, and if your findings are…
When a cold snap or a blizzard hits the US deep South, those people who are climate change skeptics are quick to denounce “global warming” or “climate change” as being…
