Climate Change

07/08/18
Author: 
Tim Radford

Researchers say the world may be approaching a tipping point, followed by a dangerous slide towards Hothouse Earth, an overheated planet.

LONDON, 7 August, 2018 – Human actions threaten to push the planet into a new state, called Hothouse Earth. In such a world global average temperatures could stabilise at 4°C or even 5°C higher than they have been for most of human history.

07/08/18
Author: 
Stacey Bannerman

How do you clear a room of climate activists? Start talking about war. It’s not just environmentalists that leave; it’s pretty much everyone.

04/08/18
Author: 
Sonali Kolhatkar
A firefighter races to save a home in Lakeport, Calif. The residence eventually burned. (Noah Berger / AP)

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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04/08/18
Author: 
Carl Meyer
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.

31/07/18
Author: 
Ian Angus
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

31/07/18
Author: 
Financial Times
July 29, 2018
 
Extreme weather must spur action against global warming 
 

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