Climate Science

25/03/25
Author: 
Erin Blondeau
Pierre Poilievre at the 2023 Conservative Party convention. Credit: Pierre Poilievre / X

Feb. 21, 2025

Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.

Our neighbours across the colonial border are grappling with what is shaping up to be a United States dictatorship, with outsized influence from a syndicate of the world’s richest men. With a federal election around the corner and geopolitical tensions rising across the world, this is a moment for Canada to dive into audacious changes that can unite us all through visionary climate justice rather than rugged individualism and nationalism.

14/03/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Earth - black marble

Mar. 14, 2025

“The accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is irreversible on human timescales and will affect climate for millennia” -- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 

02/03/25
Author: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign and Allies
 from https://bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-report
Feb. 2025
 
SUMMARY
 
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been widely promoted by governments and industry throughout B.C.
as a fix-all solution that will supposedly boost B.C.’s economy, support local jobs, get countries in Asia
off coal, reduce B.C.’s reliance on American energy exports, and lower B.C.’s emissions.
 
This briefing note explains why LNG is a false solution on all these fronts. It lays out environmental,
24/02/25
Author: 
Seth Borenstein
People walk near the Mendenhall Glacier on Feb. 9, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Feb. 21, 2025

Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world's mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s.

08/02/25
Author: 
Laurie Adkin
When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

03/02/25
Author: 
Elizabeth Kolbert
Fighting the Pacific Palisades blaze: California is ‘a poster child of what we expect to see more of in the future,’ says Swain. Photo by Ethan Swope, the Associated Press.

Feb. 3, 2025

A global climate trend set the stage for LA’s fires, explains scientist Daniel Swain.

26/01/25
Author: 
Patrick Greenfield
Near Newtok in Alaska, melting permafrost is causing the Ninglick River to widen and erode its banks. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Jan. 21, 2025

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.

11/12/24
Author: 
Josie Garthwaite, Stanford University
Probability of peak warming in response to cumulative emissions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111832

Dec. 10, 2024

Researchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.

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