Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Inspiration on Dec 3rd, 2009
I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward Everett Hale Author and Unitarian Minister
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, UK on Dec 2nd, 2009
Most people who follow the climate debate — and many who do not — will have heard about the so-called Climategate. In a nutshell, hackers stole 13 years of emails from leading climate scientists at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the UK’s University of East Anglia, and published them on the web for all [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, USA on Sep 19th, 2009
It’s hard to know what to think. Is the Obama administration really looking for a Do-Over, and would it really be preferable to wipe the slate clean, and begin again? Recent comments from Obama officials suggest that we won’t have an agreement in Copenhagen. Certainly, three years of intense negotiations seem to have gotten us [...]
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Climate Change Science, Global Warming Myths on Mar 6th, 2009
When I was studying science at Dalhousie, one of my professors was Gordon Ogden who was publishing regularly in scientific journals to warn about the dangers of acid rain. At one lecture, he explained that the pristine lakes and rivers in Nova Scotia — we had a multimillion dollar sport fishery at the time — [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, High Horse, Social Justice on Jan 6th, 2009
It’s funny. I learned more about ethics and social justice in a biology class than any dozen religious sermons that I can remember. Most people are surprised to learn — as I did during an undergraduate lecture — that we can take dramatic steps towards feeding the world’s poor, and it has little to do [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Dec 21st, 2008
I’ve always found some small respite in symbolism, a sign perhaps that a kernel of my religious upbringing yet persists in a warm corner of my soul. And so as I write these words, on the deepest, darkest day of the year, with wind and snow raking at our windows, I take some measure of [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, Canada, Politics, UK, USA on Dec 18th, 2008
Although UN delegates are always trying to gild the lily, the simple truth is that progress was hard to come by the UNFCCC* climate talks in Poznan, Poland, and every step forward was followed by an unfortunate step backwards. Even as UN officials were calling the meeting a success, pointing to the EU agreement to [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, Canada, Politics, USA on Dec 17th, 2008
And so it begins, with baby steps. Truth to tell, I had wanted to make this blog look exactly like the One Blue Marble web site, but with everything else on my plate, that’s too high a hurdle (he wrote, mixing metaphors). So this will do for now, until I learn how to transform my [...]