Climate change

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]

SUZUKI – Climate change combines with other factors to fuel wildfires

August 29, 2018 // 3 Comments

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

June 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

April 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

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

April 4, 2014 // 3 Comments

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]

Climate change is for real: The Canadian North is heating up and so is Kamloops

March 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Earth Hour, today at 8:30 p.m., focuses on reducing our energy consumption but its concept is a broad-based commitment to our environment. Following is a [Continue]