Climate Change

18/12/20
Author: 
Bob Weber
Waves caused by Hurricane Teddy batter the shore in Cow Bay, N.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

December 16th 2020

It was another year of record-breaking disasters and crazy, dangerous weather from coast to coast, says Environment Canada's senior climatologist.

A vicious hailstorm in Calgary wrote off more cars than Albertans normally buy in an entire year. Heat in Ontario quadrupled Toronto's normal number of hot, stuffy nights.

16/12/20
Author: 
Damian Carrington

Climate striker speaks before UN event marking five years since the Paris accord

15/12/20
Author: 
Robert Hunziker
PMMA chambers used to measure methane and CO2 emissions in Storflaket peat bog near Abisko, northern Sweden. Photograph Source: Dentren – CC BY-SA 3.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

“The story of methane really is a story of a very serious definitive threat to our future existence on this planet.” (Peter Wadhams)

Legendary Arctic explorers Sir James Clark Ross, who located the northern magnetic pole in 1831 and Sir William Edward Parry, who set a record in 1827 for the Farthest North exploration serve as footnotes in the context of the Arctic’s most prolific scientist, Peter Wadhams, professor emeritus, University of Cambridge, with more than 50 expeditions to the world’s poles under his belt.

15/12/20
Author: 
Bay of Quinte Green Party of Ontario

Dec 6, 2020

For the launch of the Bay of Quinte Green Party of Ontario Speaker Series we were so happy to have as our Inaugural guest speaker Dimitri Lascaris. He spoke on Fiscal Conservatism and how it is failing us in the fight against this pandemic and climate change.

Dimitri starts speaking about 7 minutes into the recording. 

Here is the video link:

15/12/20
Author: 
Andrea Germanos
Participants attend Earth Hour 2018 in front of the Brandenburg Gate on March 24, 2018 in Berlin. Adam Berry/Getty Images.

Say Former UN Climate Leaders.

Dec. 13, 2020

Global ambition to avert climate catastrophe “must shift quickly to another scale, beyond recognition.”

A group of four former United Nations climate chiefs say it’s “unthinkable” for the world to continue its business-as-usual approach to climate action, warning that without ramped-up ambition, humanity is headed down a “road to hell.”

11/12/20
Author: 
Brett Wilkins
Protesters picket outside a Chase Bank branch in November 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

December 10, 2020

"The only reasonable decision for investors in this situation is to green their portfolio and to quit companies planning new fossil investments now."

Five years after the world adopted the Paris climate agreement, global financial institutions have provided over $1.6 trillion in loans and underwriting to multinational fossil fuel firms planning and developing destructive oil and gas projects, a joint report from 18 environmental groups revealed Thursday.

11/12/20
Author: 
Carol Linnitt
With the approval of LNG Canada, there is expected to be an explosion of hydraulic fracturing operations in northeastern B.C., like this one near Farmington, B.C. Photo: Garth Lenz / The Narwhal

Dec 8, 2020

The CleanBC plan, released two years ago, still doesn’t lay out a credible pathway to meet emissions targets. A look at fracking and LNG helps explain why

When B.C. unveiled its signature CleanBC plan in 2018, onlookers noticed something suspicious: it was full of holes.

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