Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics on Mar 27th, 2009
In the wake of the AIG scandal, it’s refreshing to see that some companies are tying company bonuses to significant achievements for both the corporation and society. National Grid — a London-based utility company — has has become the latest and biggest UK firm to link the company’s success in reducing its carbon footprint to [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Media on Mar 27th, 2009
Don’t forget. Earth Hour is Saturday, March 28, 2009 — between 8:30 and 9:30 pm in your time zone. Turn out the lights, shut off the power. Light candles. Be quiet and still. Spend the hour with your family. Connect with each other, share stories. Talk. And then get angry. Get informed. We are staring [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Politics, USA on Mar 22nd, 2009
It’s easy to grow weary of the excuses and the bullshit. In Canada, we pretend that nation is singular and unique, that it’s somehow harder for Canadians to cut their greenhouse gas emissions because of our special circumstances. The Great White North, so cold and vast and unforgiving. It’s easy for the British to cut [...]
Posted in Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Mar 22nd, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Gerbrand Ceder and graduate student Byoungwoo Kang have published details of their battery breakthrough in Nature, and more than a few business executives are paying attention. Lithium batteries are known for their power, but they’ve always been slow to charge and discharge, and that has been the technology’s Achilles [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Global Warming Myths on Mar 20th, 2009
This is just one of an excellent series by Greenman (Peter Sinclair) explaining why climate scientists have their knickers in a knot over disappearing Arctic sea ice. We have two main problems — and many smaller ones — that occur when arctic sea ice melts. One is that the high arctic has worked as a [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Solutions on Mar 18th, 2009
The Dutch are doing more than putting their fingers in the dykes; the prospect of global warming and a melting Greenland has convinced the government in the Netherlands to spend $1.3 billion US per year over the next century on massive infrastructure projects. The reason is simple, as most readers know: One-quarter of this venerable [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Social Justice on Mar 17th, 2009
The Republic of Maldives — a bevy of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels — is becoming the change it wishes to see in the world by pledging to become the world’s first carbon neutral nation. President Mohamed Nasheed says that his country will [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Politics on Mar 16th, 2009
Andrew Nikiforuk‘s important book — Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent — is available until March 20 as a free, downloadable PDF. thanks to publisher Greystone Books. You can also pick it up at Amazon and Chapters.
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, UK, USA on Mar 16th, 2009
We have to change the terminology; according to scientists who attended the International Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen, the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” need to be retooled to better represent the stark reality that we are now facing. A climate catastrophe — or climate breakdown — would seem to be better choices for [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Politics on Mar 16th, 2009
The world’s leading climate scientists convened in Copenhagen a few days ago, so it was a busy week for environmental news, and it begins with a startling report by British Antarctic Survey scientists. In a nutshell, many coastal areas in both the developed and developing world are at great risk for devastating floods over the [...]