Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Politics, UK, USA on Feb 13th, 2009
The Congress has a stimulus plan that is expected to pass today, and it contains so many provisions to help the US transition to a low-carbon economy that I’ll just send you to Climate Progress for a summary, instead of listing them here. (The bill also chose to support renewables over nuclear power, another important [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, UK, USA on Feb 9th, 2009
Politicians aren’t listening, so climate scientists are convening an emergency meeting in Copenhagen in March to collate the latest scientific findings so they can exert pressure on the international negotiating teams that will meet in Copenhagen next December. The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change will run from March 10-12, and will feature keynotes by [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Politics, UK, USA on Feb 6th, 2009
Most people don’t get global warming and can’t understand why we’d work so hard on a project that doesn’t help us pay our bills. And that’s because they still think of global warming as it was explained to them in the 1990s: a slow almost-imperceptible change in climate that will bring a short drought here, [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, UK on Feb 6th, 2009
A new low-carbon transportation strategy for Europe must emphasize waterways and rail, according to the European Commission’s new paper. The EU’s first plan to integrate the continent’s infrastructure was created in 1993, when the union only included 15 member countries. Now that number has swelled to 27, and climate change concerns have swept to the [...]
Posted in Canada, George Monbiot, Old King Coal, Politics, UK, USA on Jan 17th, 2009
Three articles worth reading this weekend. First: why Heathrow = Deathrow George Monbiot explains why the Heathrow expansion is anything but sustainable. But this government has always been inventive in devising ways to disappoint, and the Heathrow decision represents the final abandonment both of the sustainable, integrated transport system it promised in 1998 and 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 [...]
Sweden does the most of any country to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, while Canada and Saudi Arabia do the least, according to a barometer published by watchdogs at the UN climate talks last week in Poland. Interestingly, the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CPI) only placed Sweden fourth on its list — leaving the top [...]