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A new study published in the scientific journal Nature says 85% of Canada’s dirty tar sands must “remain in the ground” to limit global warming. The post To limit global warming, 85% of Canada’s tar sands must stay in the ground: Study appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of temperature increase by 2100 and the associated likely impacts of a +4-8C world environment: We do nothing. Global warming is not a big deal. We do nothing. Global warming is as bad or worse than feared. We act. Global warming is not a big deal. We act. Global warming is as bad or worse than feareded. Key here is the only “variable” we as humans control is whether we act. (Read more…) The so-called Santa Claus, a militant socialist leader who poses a serious threat to Canada’s national security, lights up a cheap Russian cigarette and relaxes after persuading a group of Canadian children unschooled in Austrian economics to give up the benefits of the free market for socialist dependency on government handouts. Below: the sinister “Øverste Leder” of the Danes, the icy eyed Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and the doughty Canadian Rangers, defenders of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty as they bravely prepare to engage in another lonely Sov Pat. A Christmas Message from the Prime Minister of All the Canadas: It’s Christmas, and (Read more…) 
 Annual Christmas Message Satire, ayn rand, Canadian Politics, Canadian Rangers, Danegeld, denmark, FARC, global warming, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, Laureen Harper, Leo Strauss, Matthew Fisher, NATO, News Satire, NORAD, North Pole, oil prices, Political Satire, Preston Manning, Ray Novak, Royal Canadian Air Force, Santa Claus, The Prime Minister of All the Canadas, thomas mulcair, Vladimir Putin, Æthelred the Badly Advised Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, climate scientist, communicator, educator, and CCL science advisor, spoke at Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada’s Carbon Fee Prosperity conference last month. Dr Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and associate professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. She is also an evangelical Christian married […] “Caught between the impossible and the unthinkable, we must do the impossible.” David Roberts is staff writer at Grist.org. In this “Climate Change is Simple” TEDx Talk, he describes the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms. Gordon Gibson: The Nailer If you are a politician, or work with any political party –federal or provincial or municipal – you should definitely read the succinct, well-written and politically significant articleby Gordon Gibson in the Globe & Mail, entitled Enough with pipelines. Refine it. Gibson summarizes, in one short article, the crux of the national debate about our crude oil pipelines. Here’s some of the article: There is a win-win-win response to all of this, if any national political party has the savvy to step up. The public opposition is really against pipelines to export bitumen and the (Read more…) Our new premier, Jim Prentice, claims he is committed to making Alberta an environmental leader. That’s on Sundays, just after church. The rest of the week his commitments lie elsewhere. He made that plain in a speech to the Economic Club last week when he declared his goal is to see pipelines built in every possible direction. The Northern Gateway gushing oil west, Keystone gushing oil south A ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon dioxide levels in the northern […] Two of the defining problems of our times are wealth inequality (both globally and within the first world) and climate change. With any socioeconomic order – our mixture of capitalism and government being just one – there are going to be consequences both good and bad. There are going to be challenges that the socioeconomic order is particularly good or bad at addressing. The point of this post is to expand on how these two defining problems – global warming and inequality – are products of our particular socioeconomic order, that they are two problems that our system is particularly (Read more…) Remember that global warming target of keeping temperature increases within 2 degrees Celsius by 2100? 2C, you may recall, is supposed to be the point within which we might – just might – avoid catastrophic, i.e. runaway, global warming. 2C, it’s thought (perhaps wishfully) will give us a better than even chance of keeping this party going. Did I mention Barrow, Alaska? Barrow is here, in the red circle: You probably noticed that Barrow is near the northernmost point in Alaska, well within the Arctic Circle. It’s actually because of how far north Barrow is situated (Read more…) The American Republican Party is a major obstacle to the United States acting responsibly on climate change. In the manner of our federal government, they do not allow science to interfere with their dogma. But while they have little use for science, they are great admirers of the military, so is it possible they will start listening to the Pentagon when it comes to climate change? If they She’s your commissioner, Mr. Harper, appointed under your watch. She is a former mining industry executive, the kind of credentials you respect. So when she speaks, pay attention. And she recently spoke loud and clear. As federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Julie Gelfand heads her department’s Fall 2014 report, which is not at all pleased with your The climate scientists got it wrong, badly wrong. You could say they were out by a country mile (if anyone still remembers what that is). This time it’s ocean temperatures or, to be more accurate, ocean warming. And, as usual, the scientists underestimated the amount of heat absorbed in the top half-mile of our oceans since 1970 by as much as 58 per cent. The study, by Paul J. Durack of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and others, found that the underestimation was the result of decades of spotty sampling of water temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere, home (Read more…) The prattling of climate change sceptics/deniers in the National Post has been ridiculed by one of its own editors. In recent comments on the CBC’s The National, Jonathan Kay repeated observations he made in a column some years ago in which he accused deniers of being “a liability to the Conservative cause.” In his article he observed, “In the case of global warming, this [cognitive] dissonance In her latest book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein argues that if we are to defeat climate change we must defeat capitalism. At this week’s UN climate summit in New York, a number of corporate leaders seemed determined to prove her wrong. For example, a group of investment institutions that included pension funds and corporate asset managers promised to “ Joseph Boutilier, a climate activist from Victoria, B.C., reminds us that as proponents of climate action, we are not a minority but a strong majority in Canada. The post Climate Change: In a Struggle This Big, There’s No Room for Theatrics appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. In the U.S. Senate this week, Senator Klobuchar called for Unanimous Consent to pass a resolution acknowledging that climate change is occurring and that it will continue to pose an ongoing risk. Senator James Inhofe objected to the resolution. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse offered this in cogent, informed response. * Whitehouse.Senate.gov ThinkProgress.org Surprising perhaps, but the National Hockey League now produces a sustainability report. And it’s worried about global warming. According to League Commissioner Gary Bettman, “Our sport can trace its roots to frozen freshwater ponds, to cold climates. Major environmental challenges, such as climate change and freshwater scarcity, affect opportunities for hockey players of all ages to learn and The NHL says that climate change is real, and announces measures the league will take to fight it. They’re worried that the gradual disappearance of outdoor rinks might be detrimental to the game. And it probably will be. Less access to free ice-time means, down the road, a smaller pool of skilled skaters to draw from. He has yet to comment on the latest twist in the Duffy scandal. But in his shadowy bunker Stephen Harper must be feeling the heat.For by now even he must realize that the writing is on the wall.And that he could soon be sweating in a witness box.Trying to explain under oath what Nigel Wright meant when he said that Harper had told him the deal to pay off Duffy was "good to go." The leader of a tired, increasingly unpopular government with nowhere to go but down. Read more » The hottest 3 months ever recorded. 2014 is on track to break a lot of records, in a bad way. * * Earth Just Finished Its Warmest Quarter-Year Ever daveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Alberta’s billion dollar failed Carbon Capture “science experiment”TweetA report from Auditor General Merwan Saher released this week found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has properly monitored the performance of the PC Government’s climate change strategy which was first implemented in 2008. The report also uncovered serious problems with the province’s expensive Carbon Capture and Storage strategy. Since it […]
2014 Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race, Alberta Climate Change Strategy, Alberta Politics, Alison Redford, Auditor General Report, Calgary-Buffalo, Carbon Capture and Science, Dave Hancock, David Keith, Ed Stelmach, global warming, Jim Prentice, Kent Hehr, Merwan Saher, Munk School of Global Affairs, oil sands, Science Experiment, Thomas Lukaszuk, Unicorn Science, University of Calgary FINALLY: A TV ad that tells it like it is: EXXON HATES AMERICA (and Canada, too). The ad, from green groups Oil Change International, The Other 98% and Environmental Action, is a follow-up to last year’s “Exxon Hates Your Children” video. * Go to http://ExxonHates.com if you want to see it on national television. Shift happens. A movie made by a movement. * TheShiftMovie.com * If you are an investor, the risks of climate change should matter to you. That’s the message from the Risky Business Project, led by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, billionaire financier Tom Steyer and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. These business and political leaders have come together to quantify the economic costs. Judy Woodruff […] |
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