It’s been the best piece of public policy in years: more tax on what we want less of; less tax on what we want more of.
Yes, the carbon tax - on which a short-term political price must be paid, for long-term benefits. How often do you see politicians taking that kind of risk?
Gordon Campbell’s courage [...]
“Theoretically, we could see an Arctic that is ice-free in summer months a lot sooner than most people previously thought. Some people think that it could happen in five or six years.”
Putting that into perspective, David Barber, a University of Manitoba sea ice physicist, notes that the Arctic hasn’t been seasonally ice-free for at least the [...]
Here’s another sign that we should be thinking about how to get out of the mine shaft: a huge and sudden ice fracture in the Beaufort Sea, as documented by the Canadian Ice Service (did you even know we had one?)
Click here to go to the CIS site, and then click on the second image down [...]
Occasionally I come across a piece of writing that’s really memorable. (At least it sticks in my mind until the next day.) Perhaps because of all the news about avalanches in our surrounding mountains, this essay - The Failure of Networked Systems - really resonates.
There is a critical angle for piles of sand - a level [...]
You have to be impressed with a city councillor who can actually write a book: in this case, Clive Doucet, the author of Urban Melt Down: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual.
You can meet him for yourself next Sunday, January 13, 7 pm-9 pm, at the Coal Harbour Community Centre. And you can help [...]
I’m not entirely sure what came out of of Bali as far as the negotiated agreement is concerned, but I’m pretty sure it unnerved those leaders who think they can keep playing the same role, reading the same lines, and assume the curtain will never come down.
Best line out of Bali:
If for some reason you [...]
I’m putting that quote on my “Significant Lines of 07″ list, based on this news:
“The Arctic is screaming,” said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.
Just last year, two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it [...]
Sometimes Mother Nature gets a little heavy-handed with the irony:
This pic comes from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer - a flooded Wal-mart in Chehalis, Washington.
Headline in the paper: Climate change could mean more massive downpours.
And then this in the Seattle Times:
Did development, logging set the stage for disaster?
Big-box stores, restaurants and strip malls galore. A [...]
I always thought it odd, when sitting on Council, that some people just didn’t like good news.
Whenever reports came in that detailed how we were making progress as a city, the reaction of some was (1) disbelief and/or skepticism, (2) “It’s a good first start …” (3) “Yeah, but what about … ” (That’s one [...]
According to Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre, the ice-covered area (light green in this image) is currently around 3 million sq km, which is about 1 million sq km less than the previous minimum levels recorded in 2005/6. Over the last ten years the sea ice coverage has shrunk by around [...]
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