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On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain?
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain? The Tyee asked global experts, and got some surprising answers. How does Canada rate in fighting climate change? Better than most countries, especially ones where fossil fuels drive politics. Terribly for the world, because if every country copied Canada, that would ensure climate catastrophe. That’s the […]
Climate Change Triggers Hysteria As Ireland Declares A ‘Climate Emergency’
Climate Change Triggers Hysteria As Ireland Declares A ‘Climate Emergency’ Ireland has declared a climate emergency, with Climate Action Minister Richard Bruton calling climate change the greatest challenge mankind is facing. ITV quoted the minister as saying, “We’re reaching a tipping point in respect of climate deterioration. Things will deteriorate very rapidly unless we move very swiftly […]
Loving a vanishing world
Loving a vanishing world I want to talk about power — how much we have, and how we can use it meaningfully. But I’m going to start with despair. At a beach in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands recently — on my first real vacation in almost three years — I felt much of the loosening that I often feel at the […]
Landmark UN Report to Show ‘Transformational Change’ Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future
Landmark UN Report to Show ‘Transformational Change’ Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future “Anyone who denies that we are in a human-induced extinction crisis is either lying or not paying attention.” The dried up bed of Wayoh Reservoir near Bolton as the heatwave continues across the UK on July 23, […]
UK climate emergency is official policy
UK climate emergency is official policy Heathrow’s expansion is now in question. Image: By J Patrick Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons Major changes in the government’s policy on fossil fuels will be vital to tackling the UK climate emergency that Parliament has recognised. LONDON, 3 May, 2019 − The United Kingdom has taken a potentially momentous policy decision: […]
Without a rebellion there might be nothing left. The tide is turning and necessarily so.
Without a rebellion there might be nothing left. The tide is turning and necessarily so. An international rebellion has begun. I am writing this as a call to action for humanity and permaculture enthusiasts everywhere. I want to take a few minutes to share my story, and perhaps you will be inspired by a world that is […]
The climate change story is half true
The climate change story is half true The climate change story is true is some respects: The climate is indeed changing. And CO2 emissions do seem to affect climate. Burning fossil fuels does indeed make a difference in CO2 levels. The problem I have with the climate change story is that it paints a totally inaccurate […]
Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion
Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion The rapid pace of the Arctic thaw may exact a very high price. Image: By Roxanne Desgagnés on Unsplash Polar change, notably the fast Arctic melt, could impose huge costs on world economies. New evidence shows how rapidly the frozen north is changing. LONDON, 26 April, 2019 – The northern reaches of the […]
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production
Report: Big Oil Is Spending ‘’Too Much’’ On New Oil Production Big Oil plans to spend nearly US$5 trillion in capital expenditure over the next decade, much of which would go into adding new production. Yet this money will also bring the world farther from the Paris Agreement climate targets, a report from energy industry-focused […]
Global Climate Coalition: Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs
Global Climate Coalition: Documents Reveal How Secretive Fossil Fuel Lobby Group Manipulated UN Climate Programs A fossil fuel–backed industry group was able to influence the process behind the United Nations climate assessments for decades, using lobbyists and industry-funded scientists to manipulate international negotiations, a cache of recently discovered documents reveals. The documents include hundreds of briefings, […]
The US Chamber of Commerce’s “New” Take on Climate Change
The US Chamber of Commerce’s “New” Take on Climate Change The climate is changing, and humans are contributing to these changes. We believe that there is much common ground on which all sides of this discussion could come together to address climate change with policies that are practical, flexible, predictable, and durable. — The US Chamber […]
Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt, and Conservationists, Too
Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt, and Conservationists, Too The case for adaptive management by land management agencies has been in the making for a long time, and takes on a new urgency with the changes being forced by the emissions from consumer and industrial combustion of fossil fuels. The case for adaptive conservationby non-governmental organizations takes on its […]
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands In what seemed like an episode of the Norwegian television drama Occupied, Norway’s largest political party joined smaller ones in the nation’s parliament to prevent oil exploration in the scenic Lofoten archipelago. The Labor Party’s environmental wing made climate change and scenic beauty big issues. Unlike another […]
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding While the influential development bank has scaled up clean energy finance, fossil fuels are still getting a larger share of support, campaigners found The World Bank is supporting the controversial Trans Anatolian Pipeline gas project (Pic: Tanap) The World Bank Group faces criticism for continuing to […]
Climate Change Parallax
Climate Change Parallax There exists a very seductive delusion that once we cool (or heat) the planet to the proper temperature that the majority of our ecological ills will be over. This is a dangerous self-dectption. “Climate change” per se is not the problem. Temperature fluctuations (increases) reflect underlying carnage caused to nature by excessive […]
