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Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina (Photo: Eric Gay/AP) For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. […]
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone Puyé Cliff dwellings, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped tightly to handholds notched into the rocks […]
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity. The co-operative movement needs to work internationally to stop oil companies extracting, and governments and […]
Explosion At Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Site, All Workers Are Safe
Explosion At Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Site, All Workers Are Safe FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — An explosion at a Syncrude oilsands processing site near Fort McMurray has interrupted operations at the facility. Ryan Bartlett with the Alberta Energy Regulator says the blast happened early Saturday morning at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake site. Bartlett says in an email that the […]
A Tragic Scenario: Narrowly Cast
A Tragic Scenario: Narrowly Cast Book Review: The Collapse of Western Civilization The Climate Conundrum The anthropogenic roots of climate change have long been clear, and the dangers of inaction can be seen in melting glaciers and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. We already know how to solve the problem—rapidly scaling up to 100% renewables, increasing […]
RCMP planning mass arrests at pipeline protest camp, northern B.C chiefs fear
RCMP planning mass arrests at pipeline protest camp, northern B.C chiefs fear RCMP say they are just working to keep the peace A dispute over energy projects and aboriginal rights is heating up at a pipeline protest camp in northern B.C. where First Nations leaders fear police are planning mass arrests. Since 2009, Wet’suwet’en people, […]
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene — the idea that Homo sapiens has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, ‘Nature is gone… You are living on a used planet. If this […]
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock […]
Bee battles: why our native pollinators are losing the war
As global commerce grows, the movement of goods is occurring at ever-faster rates. And with increased global trade comes the spread of non-native species. This includes invasive insects that are making life difficult for domestic bees. Non-native species get introduced both intentionally and accidentally. However they migrate, though, their spread can lead to devastating results. […]
The Real Lesson of Katrina: the Worst is Yet to Come
The Real Lesson of Katrina: the Worst is Yet to Come Three weeks and three days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, a paper of mine appeared in the scientific journal Nature. It showed that North Atlantic hurricane power was strongly correlated with the temperature of the tropical Atlantic during hurricane season, and that both […]
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’ No fish in the car, warned the rental car attendant at Juneau airport, with the weary tone of someone who had cleaned too many fish guts out of returned vehicles. It was a warning underlined by signs in hotels pleading with […]
Extreme Weather and Food Resilience, for Home Growers
Extreme Weather and Food Resilience, for Home Growers A joint task force of experts from the UK and US have recently released recommendations for Extreme Weather and Resilience of the Global Food System. The report uses current climate and weather science coupled with food supply history to make predictions and recommendations to help governments mitigate […]
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C.
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C. Quake one of world’s largest ever triggered by hydraulic fracturing Fracking triggered a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in northeastern B.C. last year, CBC News has learned, making it one of world’s largest earthquakes ever triggered by the controversial process. B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission confirmed the cause of the earthquake in an email statement to CBC this […]
Peabody Energy ‘Experts’ Sow Doubt About Reality of Climate Change
Peabody Energy ‘Experts’ Sow Doubt About Reality of Climate Change According to publicly available court records, US coal company Peabody Energyrecently submitted expert testimony to the Minnesota Public Utilities commission arguing that, ”CO2 is not harmful and is actually good for the planet” and that “there is no empirical scientific evidence for significant climate effects of rising CO2 levels, […]
