Climate Change

The world's oceans suck up a huge chunk of human-caused emissions, but their role in mitigation strategies and targets is largely absent from critical negotiations underway at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Canadian scientist Anya Waite says.

A massive carbon sink, the oceans are doing much of the “heavy lifting,” sopping up as much as 40 per cent of our fossil fuel emissions over the past 200 years, said Waite, CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

Read the full article.

Category:

First images from NASA satellite which tracks climate changes released

11/11/21

Author:

Amy Woodyatt, CNN

Link:

CNN

The city of Kathmandu, Nepal, seen at the bottom left of this Landsat 9 image, lies in a valley south of the Himalayan Mountains between Nepal and China. Glaciers, and the lakes formed by glacial meltwater, are visible in the top middle of this image.

November 9, 2021

Read the full article.

Category:

Russia comes in from cold on climate, launches forest plan

10/11/21

Author:

Tanya Titova and Frank Jordans

Link:

AP News

The morning sun shines through a forest outside Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. More than two-thirds of Sakhalin Island is forested, and authorities there have set an ambitious goal of making the island carbon neutral by 2025. Tree growth will absorb as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as the island’s half-million residents and businesses produce, and Moscow hopes to apply the idea to the whole country, which has more forested area than any other nation. (

November 9, 2021

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian island north of Japan has become a testing ground for Moscow’s efforts to reconcile its prized fossil fuel industry with the need to do something about climate change.

More than two-thirds of Sakhalin Island is forested. With the Kremlin’s blessing, authorities there have set an ambitious goal of making the island — Russia’s largest — carbon neutral by 2025.

Read the full article.

Category:

Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Forestry

Tax the rich, save the planet

10/11/21

Author:

Adrienne Tanner

Link:

National Observer

Rev. David Haslam, a Methodist anti-poverty and tax justice crusader at a side event to the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 8. Photo by Adrienne Tanner / Canada's National Observer

November 9th 2021

Rev. David Haslam, a well-known British human rights and tax justice firebrand, has this little joke he tells. “I am really worried about the souls of the wealthy.”

“If we are going to save their souls, we’re going to have to take some money off them.”

Read the full article.

Category:

Young people like Greta Thunberg will ensure climate activism is here to stay

10/11/21

Author:

David Tindall

Link:

National Observer

Young Indigenous land rights activists take part in a climate strike on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow during COP26. Photo by Nora Legrand / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 9, 2021

Read the full article.

Category:

'Regulator' Grants Trans Mountain Unrequested Right to Destroy

10/11/21

Author:

City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade

Nov. 9, 2021

The link below is to the text of a letter from City of Burnaby Lawyer Greg McDade to the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) objecting to the regulator's decision to grant Trans Mountain permission, going far beyond what Trans Mountain even requested, to destroy any trees in Burnaby for whatever reasons for the indeterminate future. Can you say "captured regulator?"

Gene McGuckin

Category: