CHARBONNEAU – Climate change lessons from the Little Ice Age
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CHALLENGE our ability to survive and our world view. Business as usual will not be an option. Our survival skills are already being tested in Europe. In [Continue]
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POLITICS – Why environmental charities are afraid to talk about climate change
By DIANNE SAXE York University, Canada THERE IS A SERIOUS EROSION of democracy underway in Canada. Elections Canada is preventing environmental charities from telling the [Continue]
BEPPLE – Experiencing the reality of climate change first-hand
THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER dictionary defines issue as “concern, problem.. As in climate change is an issue. As in it is a concern that there will be more droughts and [Continue]
SUZUKI – Deniers deflated as climate reality hits home
CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Right or wrong, why take a chance on climate change?
IT WAS DURING one of those coffee shop conversations when I was asked what I thought would happen if my opinion on climate change was eventually proven wrong. “Being the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City council’s toughest choice – green or growth
SELDOM HAS AN ISSUE been so starkly defined within the walls of Kamloops City Hall as during council’s climate change debate. And never before have we heard Coun. Arjun [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fossil fuels still rule but we can resolve the climate crisis
THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of solutions to the climate crisis. Rapidly developing clean-energy technology, reducing energy consumption and waste, increasing efficiency, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Climate change, biodiversity should be top headline news
WHEN THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change released a special report in October warning of how quickly we’re advancing toward irreversible climate chaos, it led the [Continue]
SCIENCE – Reasoned skepticism about climate change is healthy
Let’s not deal with the grim science of cynical political marketing and hyperbole. Instead, we should rigorously adjudicate all belief SPOTTING HEADLINES about the recent [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Should students be allowed to strike for climate action?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. STUDENTS IN DOZENS of Canadian schools and elsewhere in the world will go on strike tomorrow. Some will undoubtedly say, “How dare they? [Continue]
KNOX – Is the climate-change battle worth higher gasoline prices?
HERE’S A QUESTION: If you knew — really believed — that higher gas prices would combat climate change, would you moan as much? Not that this week’s spike had much [Continue]
SUZUKI – Winter weather doesn’t disprove global warming
WEATHER AND CLIMATE aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to [Continue]
SUZUKI – Climate change should be the top issue in this year’s federal election
GLOBAL WARMING isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing dire warnings about the implications of climate disruption work under political [Continue]
GINTA – Climate change challenges will never be solved with cat doors
IF YOU WANT A CHUCKLE, check out the amusing story of how a $2,000 cat door installed in a West Vancouver home can help fight climate change (embedded in the $3 million home [Continue]
