Climate change

CHARBONNEAU – Is the 1.5C target on climate emergency still possible?

November 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

I’D LIKE TO FEEL OPTIMISTIC that we can limit the amount of carbon we are pumping into the atmosphere but a number of things are conspiring against a target of 1.5 C. [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t look away from an overheating world

July 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Rain, rain, go away, come again another day… or not

June 4, 2022 // 1 Comment

Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet. — Lyrics from hit song by Pat Boone, 1957. STARING OUT THE [Continue]

SUZUKI – Report outlines Canada’s quick path to clean power

June 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]

COLLINS – 2022 could be all about the weather

May 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

“I’VE SEEN FIRE and I’ve seen rain.” So go the lyrics of a hit song by James Taylor. We saw that last year in many parts of the province. And we are being warned [Continue]

GINTA – Why Earth Day should be taking place 365 times a year

April 28, 2022 // 2 Comments

IT WAS EARTH DAY a week ago. The happy stories abounded and there were also the reminders that make us uncomfortable. We love our home and thus on Earth Day we do things to [Continue]

COLLINS – Climate plan doesn’t cut it

April 2, 2022 // 2 Comments

WE SPEAK, but we don’t do. That pretty much sums up Canada’s $9.1 billion climate plan announced this week in Vancouver by the prime minister. It’s a lot of money, but [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Nuclear energy: It’s not easy being green

February 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

NUCLEAR ENERGY has an image problem. For decades, it has been the energy source that dares not speak its name. No wonder, with the disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Joe and Josie Homeowner need help as energy bills soar

January 25, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HYDRO BILL for our house arrived the other day. It was shocking. We’re used to high electricity bills in December and January but this [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Five issues to watch closely in 2022

December 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE December 27, 2021 – It’s the holiday season and Canadians are being told to limit their social contacts as the COVID-19 virus sweeps across the [Continue]

KNOX – If November were set to music, it would be a country hurtin’ song

November 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

HAD ENOUGH OF NATURAL DISASTER this week? Floods, mudslides, washouts, the Canucks. Doesn’t help that the storm, followed by an unsettling avalanche of stories about its [Continue]

CLIMATE – How an ‘atmospheric river’ led to floods and mudslides in B.C.

November 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

By JOHN J. CLAGUE Simon Fraser University THE WEST COAST of Canada is known for its wet autumn weather, but the storm that British Columbia’s Fraser Valley experienced over [Continue]

SUZUKI – It will take more than electric cars to drive down emissions

November 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]

BEPPLE – Milobar has been missing in action on the climate-change file

November 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE ARE PAST the point of debating whether climate change is real. International panels of scientists have established again and again that our climate is heating on a [Continue]