Climate Change

Feds never fully probed carbon price impact on Ontario

04/08/18
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Ontario Premier Doug Ford greets a crowd gathered in Toronto to celebrate his swearing-in ceremony on June 29, 2018. Photo by Alex Tétreault

August 2nd 2018

Federal public servants never analyzed the full impact of a national price on carbon in Canada's most populous province, and are now holding additional meetings as a result of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's election, a senior federal official revealed Thursday.

John Moffet, assistant deputy minister at Environment and Climate Change Canada’s environmental protection branch, confirmed that the federal system had been counting on Ontario’s cap and trade regime to do the heavy lifting.

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Canada
Climate Change
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Judge sentences grandmother to 7 days in jail for pipeline protest

02/08/18
Author: 
Kelvin Gawley
Link: 
Burnaby Now
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Category: 
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Red-Green Revolution: The politics and technology of ecosocialism - Book Review

31/07/18
Author: 
Ian Angus
Link: 
Climate and Capitalism
Victor Wallis’s new book
 

 July 25, 2018

 
 

Victor Wallis’s new book is an important contribution to the growing ecosocialist movement, a passionate call to organize and act against capitalist ecocide

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Climate Change
Climate Science
Ecosocialism
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Unprecedented heat cannot be ignored

31/07/18
Author: 
Financial Times
Link: 
Financial Times 
July 29, 2018
 
Extreme weather must spur action against global warming 
 
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Climate Change
Global
USA
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California Wildfires Are “Climate Change, for Real and in Real Time”

31/07/18
Author: 
Andy Rowell
Link: 
Common Dreams
“It is sobering to witness how swiftly scientists’ worst predictions have come true, from the lethal heat wave gripping Japan to the record temperatures in Europe to the flames exploding near the Arctic Circle. ” (Photo: FEMA)

As climate change creates its own weather, how many more people have to die, how many of our children do we have to bury or how many brave fire-fighters put their lives in danger, before society acts decisively?

How many more have to die? The global heat-wave of 2018, caused by climate change, is now killing in California.

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Climate Change
Climate Science
USA
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Canada needs to brace for wave of eco-refugees in future, climate scientist says

30/07/18
Author: 
CBC staff
Link: 
CBC Radio The Current
CBC Radio · 
 
By 2040, temperatures are expected to reach as high as 44 C in Canada, according to climate scientist Blair Feltmate.

[To listen go to original article.]

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Canada
Climate Change
Climate Science
Global
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The Robbery of Nature - July-August 2018 (Volume 70, Number 3)

29/07/18
Author: 
Roger Annis
Link: 
A Socialist in Canada

A Socialist In Canada, July 2, 2018

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Ecosocialism
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Leave No Worker Behind: Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?

29/07/18
Author: 
Samantha M. Harvey
Link: 
Earth Island Journal
photo Peg Hunter Grassroots activists worry that that once taken over by philanthropies and governments entrenched in a corporate model, the principles that birthed the just transition movement – principles of bottom-up community leadership, cultural inclusion, food sovereignty, and localized economies – would be lost forever.

Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?

"There is a right way to do ‘just transition.’”

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Agriculture
Climate Change
Labour - Unions
USA
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Camp Cloud eviction deadline comes and goes as assistant fire chief pledges support for water protectors

24/07/18
Author: 
Justin Brake
Link: 
APTN  
(Water protector Johnny Lee keeps watch atop Camp Cloud’s carver’s cabin Friday evening. Photo: Justin Brake/APTN)

 July 21, 2018

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Indigenous Peoples
Protest - Revolt
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Climate Change is Proving Worse Than We Imagined, So Why Aren’t We Confronting its Root Cause?

23/07/18
Author: 
Kevin MacKay
Link: 
Counterpunch

JULY 20, 2018

June 23 marked the 30th year anniversary of NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s presentation on global warming to the U.S. Congress. In his address Hansen argued that climate change – long predicted by scientists, was now here, and that it would get steadily worse.

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
USA
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