Climate change

Harper's War on Science

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by Joyce Nelson

Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, agreed at the end of March to launch an investigation into the extensive muzzling of federally-funded scientists at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada and other federal agencies. Her decision comes after a February 20th complaint formally filed by Democracy Watch in partnership with the Environmental Law Clinic of the University of Victoria, which called for a full investigation and was accompanied by a 128-page report, Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy.

That report documents systematic silencing since 2007 of

The State of Science in Canada

Submitted by delores on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 09:57

Published in a fine website from the Shuswap (Aim High Salmon Arm), Dr. Art Borkent has given us a wonderful summary of the state of the study of insects in Canada, why it matters, and what is wrong with the suppression of science which the current government(s) are instituting.

What the Hell Were You Thinking?

Submitted by delores on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 15:37

Words From and For the Future. Testimony at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings, Vancouver, January 31, 2013

 

Global Heating Revisited

Submitted by delores on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 11:03

Rex Weyler runs through a brutally honest look at the numbers on global warming and human activity in his latest blog. Sad, and heart-rending reading.

The Billion by Billion Tonne March Off the Carbon Cliff

Submitted by delores on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 13:41

By Stephen Leahy

I'd like your help to share something. 

"The most important number in history is now the annual measure of carbon emissions. That number reveals humanity’s steady billion-tonne by billion-tonne march to the edge of the carbon cliff'" 

Saturday Morning Thoughts on the Methane Feedback Loop

Submitted by delores on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 12:30

John Atcheson's Is Climate Change Hell Now Inevitable? published on Common Dreams a few days ago raises the questions fairly and accurately. I have a lot of sympathy for him as he mutters about being asked by friends to be "positive" and present solutions to our ecological disasters.

Weather Girl Spoof on Climate Change

Submitted by susan on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 13:20

Climate change for real?
Pippa, the weather girl goes off script and gives us some climate change science.

Enjoy this entertaining video.

Shuswap Flooding Analysis

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Shuswap flooding and impacts of development & clearcut logging.

by Jim Cooperman

Preface

Federal and provincial government staff operate under a gag order that restricts the flow of information to the public. Communication staff manufacture the only information allowed to be disseminated. Consequently, it is difficult for the

Geoengineering

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by Joyce Nelson

In 2007, billionaire Sir Richard Branson (chairman of Virgin Group) and Al Gore (former US vice-president) spearheaded a competition called the Virgin Earth Challenge - a contest offering $25 million "to find commercially viable designs to permanently remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere." As Branson put it, "If we could come up with a geoengineering

Evidence Shows Small Uptick in Temps Could Spell 'Massive' Permafrost Melt

Submitted by delores on Sat, 02/23/2013 - 13:19

'1.5ºC appears to be something of a tipping point,' says scientist

- Jon Queally, staff writer, Common Dreams

Scientists studying the geological history inside ancient Siberian caves say that evidence suggests a global temperature increase of just 1.5ºC could trigger massive melting of the northern hemisphere's permafrost, unleashing gigatonnes of carbon and methane into the already warming atmosphere.

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