Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics on Dec 1st, 2009
Tzeporah Berman is one seriously smart woman — but not just because she’s saying what I’ve been saying (here and there and everywhere) since taking One Blue Marble live one year ago. She gets it. It’s not just about climate change. It’s about prosperity and the heart and soul of our nation.
Let’s just look [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Solutions on Oct 15th, 2009
Climate change isn’t only about carbon dioxide. So that’s why, in a world that is stepping close to a steep precipice, doing more to reduce non-CO2 climate change contributors such as black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, might head global warming off at the pass, [...]
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 Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Aug 31st, 2009
And they get it.
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, Social Justice, USA on Aug 26th, 2009
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims that he’s all for saving the environment, but his government has been actively working against a comprehensive international climate change agreement since he’s been in office (see stories here, here, here, and here).
Harper and his environment ministers, this time in the guise of Jim Prentice, have consistently argued that [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Renewable Energy, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Ed Milliband, Secretary for Climate Change, has unveiled the UK government’s comprehensive plan for cutting GHG emissions and heralding in a new era of renewable energy in Great Britain. The measures will affect most areas of UK society, from home energy use to power generation, and from electric cars to high-speed rail — all in [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK, USA on Jul 9th, 2009
It appears that the G8 pledge to do everything possible to keep global warming below 2°C by 2050 isn’t worth the paper it was written on. Less than 24 hours after leaders of the world’s largest economies were heralding a breakthrough in climate agreements, the bad boys of international climate negotiations — Canada and Russia [...]
Posted in Activism, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on Jul 5th, 2009
Imagine that you’re a tobacco company CEO in the 1960s, and the Surgeon General announces that your product kills people. What would you do? Perhaps you’d experiment with new filters and blends for a few years, trying to minimize the harm. But a decade passes, nothing changes, and you face a horrible truth.
Your product is [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Solutions, Politics on Jul 1st, 2009
On the latest G8 Climate Scorecard (PDF) released in advance of the L’Aquila, Italy G8 Summit, Canada has fallen into last place now that the Obama administration is reversing the global warming policies of his predecessor. The report chastises Canada as one of the few developed countries in the world with dramatically rising greenhouse gas [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK on Jun 29th, 2009
Scottish lawmakers have signed into law the world’s toughest climate regulations. The landmark legislation includes binding goals to cut greenhouse gases by 42 percent* by 2020 from 1990 levels, which knocks Germany into second place in the race to set the most ambitious GHG reduction targets. Scotland’s bill does hold an option to delay meeting [...]
