Tag Archive "climate-change"
Consumers share the blame for climate change
Human beings are experts at turning a blind eye to really important issues. We’re quite proficient at ignoring facts, twisting truths, spinning and even altering our own perception. Climate change is nothing new and yet we’re still not frantically ringing the alarm bells. Or is that we’re just not listening?
Good Paris goal, bad Canadian target
The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna announced for the first time that the climate greenhouse gas emissions target of the new government is the same as the former government’s – 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. Details as to how the target will be achieved are not yet known but they plan to find out. In other words, this government is announcing that it plans to make a plan to meet the last government’s targets, one of the weakest in the industrialized world.
UN climate change conference a watershed moment
The United Nations climate change conference, COP 21, is set to be a watershed moment in the history of global climate warming.
Climate change ‘nightmares are here’
On Aug. 5, Rolling Stone magazine published an article by Eric Holthaus titled “The point of no return: climate change nightmares are already here.”
Lack of leadership on environmental issues
Well, at least he said it in French. Our current Prime Minister, on the morning of August 2, appeared on national television to announce the dissolution of Parliament (already on summer vacation) and the beginning of one of the longest and certainly the most expensive federal election campaigns in Canadian history.
King and the Climate Action Statement
I have to make both an apology and a confession. In my last column on the Climate Summit of the Americas, I neglected to include Philippe Coulliard, Premiere of Quebec, as one of the primary movers of the historic Climate Action Statement.
Mosquitoes and fleas and ticks, oh my!
Between the West Nile virus, Chikungunya, dengue fever, plague, and Lyme disease, I began to wonder if Mother Nature was trying to kill me.
Evidence dictates we address climate change
And then there were three – the third part of the “nutshell” trilogy was published in the Sentinel June 11. Perhaps these articles were intended to provide Sentinel readers with complicated lessons in science and the scientific method.
Debate over ‘global warming’ frustrating
The debate over “so-called global warming” is indeed frustrating. In addition, the education of the public can be hugely jeopardized by ambiguity to the point of disinterest.
Wacky weather and arctic amplification
At the end of our very cold February here in King, Sig Langhammer asked me to go outdoors and dig up a good explanation for our new breaking news weather records.
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