Climate Change

If you live in California, the effects of climate change loom large this summer. In Southern California, where I live, back-to-back heat waves have enveloped suburbs in triple-digit temperatures for weeks now. In Northern California, a fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres and claimed the lives of several people in Shasta County has been declared the seventh worst in the state’s history.

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Climate Change

Feds never fully probed carbon price impact on Ontario

04/08/18

Author:

Carl Meyer

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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

Judge sentences grandmother to 7 days in jail for pipeline protest

02/08/18

Author:

Kelvin Gawley

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Burnaby Now

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Red-Green Revolution: The politics and technology of ecosocialism - Book Review

31/07/18

Author:

Ian Angus

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Climate and Capitalism

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

Unprecedented heat cannot be ignored

31/07/18

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Financial Times

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Financial Times

July 29, 2018

Extreme weather must spur action against global warming

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Climate Change

Global

USA

California Wildfires Are “Climate Change, for Real and in Real Time”

31/07/18

Author:

Andy Rowell

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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