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Alberta Politics: United Conservative Party stance on climate change amounts to not much more than hot air
PHOTOS: Hurricane Harvey batters Corpus Christie, Texas. (Photo: ABC News.) Below: Guest post author Barret Weber, Conservative leadership contenders Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives researchers Shannon Daub and Seth Klein. Guest Post by Barret Weber One truly surprising aspect of the United Conservative Party
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: This is Canada’s weather on climate change, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Any questions?
Thursday, March 3, 2016
It’s amazing how invisible climate change can be – how we feel…
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: Welcome to an extreme, warming world
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki explains why extreme weather is being experienced more frequently around the world now than in the past. The post David Suzuki: Welcome to an extreme, warming world appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingreeves report: Ontario adds Climate Change to MOE Portfolio
IN ANNOUNCING her new cabinet last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne has charged former Transportation Minister Glen Murray with taking over Ontario’s newly revamped environment ministry. Murray, the sitting MPP for Toronto Centre and former mayor of Winnipeg, assumed command of the environment ministry from veteran MPP Jim Bradley who is
Continue reading350 or bust: Extreme Weather Events Escalating Around the World
The HawkkeyDavis Channel on YouTube does an excellent job of compiling extreme weather events from around the world at regular intervals during the year. Here’s the end-of-the-year compilation for 2013. As the video’s description notes, this is not viewing for the faint of heart; all kinds of extreme weather events
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change: Our Weather On Steroids
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of severe weather events. Is this really the legacy we want to leave for our children? This video was taken from a Shell/Dairy Queen in Diamond Illinois on November 17, 2013. One of the security cameras captured a business and a house across
Continue reading350 or bust: Signs of Change
* Now are we ready to stop using our atmosphere as a sewage dump? OECD Calls For a “Big Fat Price On Carbon” In the Fight Against Climate Change *
Continue readingLeDaro: Extreme weather: Are these signs of Climate Change?
In the Maritimes we have been getting so far thunder and rain storms as well as hail storms. Some coastal communities were flooded. Is this the new normal? Are these the symptoms of Climate Change? There has been news coming from other parts of Canada and the U.S of extreme
Continue reading350 or bust: Shift Happens
* Here in Northern Ontario our lovely boreal summer is in full swing. The blueberries are starting to ripen, the ethereal call of the loons drifts up to our windows at night, and the zucchini are plentiful. This summer in my community we are lucky to be growing some “really
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Denial Is Not Affordable
While dirty energy continues to rake in record profits, the rest of us are going to be paying a higher and higher price for our governments’ inaction on climate change. Up here in Canada recently we’ve had the worst flooding on record in both Calgary and Toronto. And in Colorado
Continue reading350 or bust: President Obama Takes First Step On Path To Climate Sanity
As President Obama unveiled his plan of action to address climate change earlier this week, my husband and I were part of a group of 370 citizen lobbyists from across the U.S. and Canada who fanned out over Capitol Hill to make the case for the market-based approach of a
Continue reading350 or bust: Ending Fossil Fuel’s War On Us And The Planet
I’m on a (low-carbon) holiday for the next while, with little access to a computer, so please accept my apologies for delayed responses or posting of comments. All should be back to normal the last week of March. In the meantime, I scoured my files for some photos and graphics
Continue reading350 or bust: Greedy Lying Bastards: Exposing The Fossil Fools Who Put Profit Before Human Lives
* One of the few-and-far-between perks of being a climate blogger is that occasionally I get access to books and movies before the general public does. This past weekend I got to watch “Greedy Lying Bastards” before it hit movie screens across the U.S. on Monday. Sunday night I, along
Continue reading350 or bust: We Could Have Stopped Climate Chaos But We Were Too Damned Cheap
What a beautiful Friday morning in my part of the world. The sky is blue and clear on a minus 16 degree C March 1st day. I’m watching two pileated woodpeckers enjoy the suet in the bird feeder just outside the window. They certainly are impressive birds, especially close up!
Continue reading350 or bust: How Republicans (& Canadian Conservatives) Can Answer Obama’s Challenge To ‘Reduce The Threat Of Climate Change’
Today’s blog post is courtesy of Citizens Climate Lobby: In his State of the Union address, the President said, ‘If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations [from climate change], I will.’ Republicans who wish to avoid more regulations should embrace the free-market approach of a revenue-neutral tax on
Continue reading350 or bust: Mr. President, Please Don’t Overlook Climate Change
A message from an Oklahoma farmer for President Barack Obama, as he prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight:
Continue reading350 or bust: Getting Serious About Climate Change, Like Our Lives Depended On It
* Happy Friday! Those of you in eastern and central North America who are getting blasted by a winter storm, stay warm and off the roads! If you are warm and dry, and find the time to curl up with a good book or good friends, you might even enjoy
Continue reading350 or bust: Will The Bizarre Weather In Ottawa Wake Up The Climate Zombies In Parliament?
* Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor and PhD student of abrupt climate change in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. He recently wrote this paragraph in response to a shift of 40 degrees Celsius in two days in Ottawa: Not a typical January in Ottawa. 10
Continue reading350 or bust: Doha Climate Talks: Fiddling While Planet Burns
It’s a plus 2 Celsius December day in northern Ontario, 11 degrees warmer than the average high for this day. The UN Climate talks in Doha Qatar continue for the rest of this week, not that you would know that they were going on if you read the m…
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