Climate Science

08/06/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
This photo provided by the Manitoba government shows wildfires in Sherridon, Man., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Government of Manitoba)

Jun. 8, 2025

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds’ advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn’t bear the blather about “decarbonized oil” spilling from the first ministers’ meeting this week.

08/06/25
Author: 
Bridget Stringer-Holden
Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)

Jun. 7, 2025

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

20/05/25
Author: 
We Don't Have Time
May, 2025
 
 
WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level

WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level

21/04/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Apr. 14, 2025

Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs

The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.

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?

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