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How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]
Blowout Week 123
Blowout Week 123 A few careless campers who forgot to extinguish their campfire, or maybe a few kids playing with matches, or a cigarette, or an arsonist, a piece of glass, whatever, have in the last few days done more to bring the global oil market back into balance than OPEC and the rest of […]
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos What’s turning northern forests into tinder? Biggest reason is climate change, but that’s not all. A police officer surveys smoldering devastation wrought by wildfire in Fort McMurray on May 5, 2016. Source: RCMP Alberta. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day […]
The sustainable energy transition: a “back of the envelope” calculation
The sustainable energy transition: a “back of the envelope” calculation Image source. “Back of the Envelope” calculations are a tradition in science and often turn out to be able to provide plenty of useful information, at the same time avoiding the common pitfall of complex models, that of being able to fit anything provided that […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5 [T]he West’s energy security is assured to a degree that has not existed in the past. That’s good news for the American people and for the world, even if it is not news that Obama wants to hear. He doesn’t? I wonder how that author knows […]
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same Never is a long time. The dictionary definition is, “at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever.” In the volatile oil and gas industry, those who try to look that far into the future and predict anything with certainty are invariably […]
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – 09:19 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late […]
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta Yesterday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley asserted that Canada was “absolutely” closer to a new pipeline due to her province’s new carbon tax. According to the premier, “Alberta is not the Alberta that they thought of a year ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. After years of […]
Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the ‘Goebbels’ Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the ‘Goebbels’ Guy You might have heard that quote from outspoken American author Upton Sinclair, who once wrote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” The quote is often used to illustrate […]
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions. But keeping these gene banks safe and viable is a complicated and expensive challenge. During the 872-day German siege of […]
As Climate Warms, How Do We Decide When a Plant is Native?
As Climate Warms, How Do We Decide When a Plant is Native? The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson’s home raises questions about whether gardeners can — or should — play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. On rare occasions, the […]
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary Climate change is on a fast track, a surprisingly fast, very fast track. As such, it’s entirely possible that humanity may be facing the shock of a lifetime, caught off-guard, blindsided by a crumbling ecosystem, spawning tens of thousands of ISIS-like fighters formed into competing gangs struggling for survival. […]
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2 If nothing else, we’ll need to recognize that, like climate change, Peak Oil is not some event looming on a distant horizon. Peak Oil is happening now. We must guard against the notion that Peak Oil’s impact (like climate change) is just a one-time, cataclysmic episode “scheduled” […]
