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In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution
In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution © Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Working out whether human activity is supercharging extreme events, such as floods, storms, droughts and heatwaves, is one of the youngest branches of climate science. But it’s moving at breakneck pace. So much so, that the US National Academy of Sciences has fast-tracked a report, […]
Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy
Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy EKOS-CBC poll suggests 56% more worried about the economy than the environment Alberta produces the most greenhouse gases of any province in the country, and has for more than a decade. (CBC) Justin and Leanne Mills are in a situation familiar to many Albertans these […]
Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure
Forget the Praise: BC’s Carbon Tax Is a Failure Higher emissions, slow growth, regressive taxation. Sorry, what’s to celebrate? ‘We think in British Columbia a carbon tax is a really successful way to go,’ BC’s premier said last year. The only problem is it doesn’t work. Photo of Premier Clark at GLOBE 2016 by Mychaylo […]
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution
World’s Climate Threatened by Greed and Militarism, Official Canada Remains Part of the Problem, Not Solution A leading columnist in Canada’s Globe and Mail daily newspaper known in the past to voice concern about the global warming emergency has penned two columns recently in support of Alberta tar sands pipelines, including praising the efforts of the premier […]
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming The Paris climate conference produced an international agreement for curtailing global warming, but resistance from some leaders, particularly Republicans in the U.S., makes the prospect for its implementation doubtful and thus dangerous, writes Lawrence Davidson. Paris was certainly 2015’s center for ticking bombs. The year was bracketed by major […]
Too Little, Too Late
Too Little, Too Late Last week, after a great deal of debate, the passengers aboard the Titanic voted to impose modest limits sometime soon on the rate at which water is pouring into the doomed ship’s hull. Despite the torrents of self-congratulatory rhetoric currently flooding into the media from the White House and an assortment of groups […]
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter Summer and winter, wet and dry, high and low, the Arctic tundra continues to emit methane. Image: Bureau of Land Management (Delta WSR) via Wikimedia Commons Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters […]
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to […]
The Net-Zero Imperative
The Net-Zero Imperative OXFORD – The world has reached an historic agreement on climate change. The deal concluded at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris commits countries to take steps to limit warming to “well below” 2º Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels and to pursue “efforts” to limit warming to 1.5ºC. It also […]
Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds
Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds An undercover investigation by environment group Greenpeace has found some of the world’s most vocal climate science denial groups were willing to accept cash from fossil fuel interests in return for writing articles and reports that reject the impacts of greenhouses gases. Greenpeace operatives […]
Hottest five-year period on record is 2011-2015, says WMO
Hottest five-year period on record is 2011-2015, says WMO The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced today that 2015 is likely to top the charts as the hottest year in modern observations, with 2011-15 the hottest five-year period on record. With two full months still to add in, the global average surface temperature for January to […]
More warming will bring a more polluted future
More warming will bring a more polluted future Global warming wil increase airborne aerosols and cause more atmospheric pollution, scientists say. LONDON, 15 November, 2015 – The future is slightly obscured. The outlook is less than clear. For once, such phrases are not metaphorical. A world of global warming could mean a growing haze of solid and […]
Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment On October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were marched to the gallows. Some of the former elite Nazis did not die quickly of an intended broken neck but strangled slowly. Since […]
Stern warns: humanity is at climate crossroads
Stern warns: humanity is at climate crossroads China, the world’s worst polluter, says its emissions are now set to peak earlier. Image: Gustavo M via Flickr Expert on the economic impacts of climate change says the stakes have never been higher for radical action to be agreed at the Paris summit. LONDON, 21 October, 2015 − The lead […]
