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]
Climate change
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]
PETERS – A word of support for climate science
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE IRRITATING on a cold day than the wind throwing knives into your face as you walk outside? Yes there is, actually. It’s the people who sneer, [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Age, political ideology divide us on climate change
Past Conservative voters significantly more likely to say climate change is a theory not yet proven By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE November 30, 2018 – With Canada’s place [Continue]
SUZUKI – Ocean study criticism shows benefits of scientific method
ERRORS IN A RECENT ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay [Continue]
SUZUKI – Tackling climate change requires healing the divide
CANADIAN CLIMATE CHANGE opinion is polarized, and research shows the divide is widening. The greatest predictor of people’s outlook is political affiliation. This means [Continue]
SUZUKI – Climate change combines with other factors to fuel wildfires
SCIENTISTS, JOURNALISTS, environmentalists and others who draw the connection between increasing wildfires and global warming often face a backlash. It’s not climate [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Oil companies: reminiscent of ’70s tobacco industry
A RECENT OPINION PIECE in the Financial Post by Gwyn Morgan, founding and now retired CEO of EnCana, tackles the oil/jobs/climate change debate from the perspective of one [Continue]
If we give kids the chance to see and care about the land, there’s still time to save it
COLUMN — Daniela Gina writes Fridays for The Armchair Mayor News. On our walks to and from school we get to talk about everything. Cats, dogs, learning, why stay six hours [Continue]
‘Nudge’ factor plays big role in prospects for wrestling climate change, says economist
NEWS — A new global strategy for climate protection isn’t likely unless a broad coalition can be forged that includes both have and have-not nations, a self-declared [Continue]
