I really enjoyed this post by Andrew Freedman on the Washington Post blog Capital Weather Gang. I think it is written at the perfect level – basic enough for new readers to catch up on current events, while including enough creative insights to keep the interest of climate science enthusiasts. The article covers the attempts [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Harper’
How We Should Communicate
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged canada, climate change, climategate, copenhagen, credibility, global warming, greenhouse gases, humour, journalism, media, mitchell and webb, national post, politics, Stephen Harper, weaver on June 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Something Unexpected
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, copenhagen, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, IPCC, media, politics, science, Stephen Harper, sustainability on April 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The differences between the Canadian and American political systems amaze me. Whenever anyone mentions greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the States, people argue, journalists rant about dire economic costs, and Senators stand up and say that cap-and-trade is completely unnecessary because CO2 is plant food. But here in Canada, the government will be voting on [...]
Why Canada Is the Way it Is
Posted in News and Reports, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, obama, politics, Stephen Harper on January 30, 2010 | 15 Comments »
The Canadian government has decided that their meager 20% emission cut from 2006 levels by 2020 (equivalent to 3% cut from the standard base year of 1990) is tenuous – it all depends on what the US decides to do. (Why even bother having a separate Canadian government if they’re just going to follow all [...]
Climate Cover-Up
Posted in Reviews, tagged canada, climate change, credibility, debate, denial, global warming, IPCC, media, politics, republican, science, skeptic, Stephen Harper, united states on December 3, 2009 | 23 Comments »
I’m fairly new to the issue of climate change, and even newer to the politics surrounding it. I’ve spent the past two years reading about climate change causes, impacts, projections, myths, media blunders, and public misconceptions. I knew that vested interests, such as the fossil fuel industry and political lobby groups, had played a part [...]
The Worst in the World
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, climate change, copenhagen, global warming, greenhouse gases, politics, Stephen Harper, united states on November 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Stephen Harper is coming to Copenhagen. It really surprised me when the Canadian media started patting him on the back for announcing this, as if he was finally cleaning up his act and showing some leadership. Coming to a conference – and most likely only for a day or two, for a photo op – [...]
Two Great Canadians
Posted in Reviews, tagged canada, climate change, global warming, media, politics, science, Stephen Harper on November 5, 2009 | 21 Comments »
It’s a rare day when you find a book about climate change written by a Canadian. The authors are American, mostly. Some are British or Australian. And that’s a real shame, because there’s a lot going on in Canadian politics about climate change – but you can’t read about it anywhere. The newspapers don’t report [...]
Activists and Scientists
Posted in Other Advocates, tagged canada, climate change, global warming, politics, science, Stephen Harper, youth on October 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m back from PowerShift, and I had a fantastic time. I attended many workshops – including one on paleoclimatology from Dr Michael Pisaric, in which I had the joys of learning about pack rat middens – but also had time to do a lot of touring and walking. Ontario in the autumn is absolutely beautiful; [...]
Nobody Knows What’s Happening
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, climate change, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, politics, Stephen Harper on August 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
About a year ago, the Canadian Conservative government announced that it had a plan to cut Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions 20% from 2006 levels by 2020. The new regulations were scheduled to come into force on January 1, 2010. I was pretty happy – skeptical of Stephen Harper’s ability to carry this out, and wishing [...]
It’s Everyone’s World
Posted in Mitigation and Policy, tagged canada, climate change, global warming, human rights, politics, Stephen Harper, united states on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A nation’s policies usually only affect its citizens. Take health care, crime, or taxes. These policies could affect the rest of the world indirectly – through the economy, for example – but the benefits and consequences of the policies’ effectiveness, or lack thereof, will be present first and foremost in the nation in which they were [...]
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