A 2020 vision for climate action
Let’s hope 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take…
Browsing: Climate Change
As fracking booms, report finds we know little about impacts
With easily accessible gas and oil deposits becoming depleted, companies have turned to fracking to extract it from shale formations. This involves drilling deep, often horizontal wells and pumping large amounts of pressurized water, sand and chemicals into them to fracture rock and release gas or oil.
April Fools: Ontario’s climate policy is a scary joke
Ecojustice will see the Ford government in court today, April 1, for its gutting of Ontario’s cap and trade program in July 2018 with no public consultation.
Children should be seen and heard
Too many adults become complacent, unwilling to even imagine making sacrifices for their children and grandchildren — even though many changes required to bring emissions and warming under control would confer numerous benefits, from healthier diets to reduced pollution to greater employment and economic opportunities in clean energy.
Decades of denial and stalling have created a climate crunch
In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings…
Political climate is heating up
Global warming isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing…
Politicians who deny reality aren’t fit to lead
When faced with conclusive evidence of a major threat to citizens, a true leader would…
Tackling climate change requires healing the divide
Canadian climate change opinion is polarized, and research shows the divide is widening. The greatest predictor…
World’s top scientists confirm that it is 100% possible to keep warming below 1.5°C
WWF-New Zealand says that today’s new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the…