Climate change

McQUARRIE – Right or wrong, why take a chance on climate change?

July 7, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

July 6, 2019 // 5 Comments

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

July 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

May 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

May 22, 2019 // 2 Comments

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?

May 2, 2019 // 8 Comments

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?

April 7, 2019 // 2 Comments

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

February 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

January 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

January 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

December 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

November 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

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

November 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

November 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

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]