Climate change

GINTA – It’s not summer that brings killer heat waves but climate change

July 2, 2021 // 2 Comments

I STARTED WRITING this column with a different angle. It was about trees in urban settings and their vital role in helping us survive extreme summer temperatures. I’ll [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops needs an upfront climate change utility tax

June 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

HOT, HOT, HOT. Any way you look at it, this past week’s scorching weather has sent a clear message. Climate change is upon us. Things are getting hotter. Now more [Continue]

KNOX – Climate crisis didn’t end just because we’ve been fixated on plague

May 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]

BEPPLE – City’s new climate action plan is imperfect but it’s a good start

April 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

THIS WEEK, the City of Kamloops took another step towards addressing the climate emergency that we face globally. The City’s Community Climate Action Plan was brought to [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new climate deniers surrender to wishful thinking

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE NEW CLIMATE DENIERS no longer deny that climate change is happening. It’s become too obvious that it is. It used to be that climate change deniers could ridicule the [Continue]

BEPPLE – January rain storm a wakeup call that climate change is upon us

January 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

I AWOKE EARLY this morning to the sound of rain beating on my window and wind shaking the trees. The looming threat, climate change emergency, had awoken me. Like many, [Continue]