There’s No Time Left to Waste in Addressing the Climate Crisis
In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It…
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More Than an Energy Shift, We Need a Paradigm Shift
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
Clean Energy Transition sparks Nuclear Reaction
As the impacts of climate disruption become more frequent and intense, we need a range…
Chart Shows Affordable Ways to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to keep the world from heating to catastrophic levels is entirely…
Typo Shipwreck at Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
The Typo, a three-masted schooner, sank six miles east-southeast of Presque Isle light in 1899…
Solutions to Climate Crisis Exist, But We Need the Will to Change
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
Climate Crisis? Who knew? Turns Out the Oil Industry Did
By now, anyone paying attention knows that burning coal, oil and gas has created a…
It’s Time to Extinguish Oil and Gas Industry “Gaslighting”
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Will the World Again Hit “Snooze” on Latest Climate Alarm?
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
Is There a Rational Argument Against Climate Action?
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
Federal Election 2021: Where we go from here?
Photo by Christopher Austin on Unsplash After a fractious and sometimes heated campaign, Canadians have…
Let’s Tip the Scales Toward Justice
Humanity seems to be teetering on the brink. On one hand, we know that rapidly…
Fossil Fuel Industry Faces an Overdue Reckoning
Oil giant ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing…
Energy Road Map Charts Challenging Course to Oil-Free Future
Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per…
Leading Thinkers Call for Fossil Fuel Halt
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history
During and after his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great…
A 2020 vision for climate action
Let’s hope 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take…
Study finds Exxon misled the public by withholding climate knowledge
Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over millions of years. They’re potent fuels and provide ingredients for valuable products. But the oil boom, spurred by improved drilling technology, came at the wrong time. Profits were (and still are) the priority — rather than finding the best, most efficient uses for finite resources.
Study finds Exxon misled the public by withholding climate knowledge
Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over…
Welcome to the 21st century: Brighter times or a new Dark Age?
If you own a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA scientists had when they put people on the moon in 1969! And it’s in a small device, unlike the massive hardware the space agency used.
Welcome to the 21st century: Brighter times or a new Dark Age?
If you own a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA…