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Jun 10
"I’m terrified of the hotter future we’re heading toward; I’m even more terrified of heading there in the dark" #climate
Jun 10
I was just forced to resign from my job at NASA JPL!! Here's my latest Substack post about it... PLEASE subscribe to me over there, It's the main place I'll be communicating from
climatehuman.substack.com/p/…
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Carney of all ppl knows emissions must drop drastically, but Canada's MOU with Alberta (40% of 🇨🇦 emissions) "weakens the ability of industrial carbon pricing to materially reduce emissions, while enabling higher emissions from increased oil & gas production". #cdnpoli #climate
We dug into the emissions impacts of the sweeping policy changes under the Canada-Alberta MOU deal—here’s what we found out. (Hint: It barely moves the needle) 👇
440megatonnes.ca/insight/can…
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🇨🇦Emissions target for 2030 = 440Mt
Oil & gas emissions are around 207Mt now.
canada.ca/en/environment-cli…
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Feb 18
"At some point there will be a backlash against the backlash and the next one may be even bigger than the Greta Thunberg storm."
Look forward not backward, #cdnpoli #bcpoli.
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May 26
These new temp records are “mind-bogglingly crazy".
- Peter Thorne, director of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre, at Maynooth University, in Ireland.
#cdnpoli
May 26
Early heat wave in Europe shatters records, prompts health risk warnings theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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May 19
"When it comes to Cup game days, Forbes reported a 290 per cent price increase in Vancouver from the same dates last year: $315 to $1,229 a night."
May 18
What World Cup bump? Vancouver hotel bookings down 20 per cent this year vancouversun.com/news/world-…
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Apr 27
Bloomberg commodity strategist: "Crude oil is going the way of whale oil..." #cdnpoli
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Apr 27
"Even by the low standards of pandering, the gas tax cut seems gratuitous." #cdnpoli theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. Seriously bad news.
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Apr 15
Pierre Poilievre: It's clear that he's learned all the wrong lessons--
Mark Carney: Oh dear, oh dear. Mr. Speaker, I feel like I'm in the presence of students. I don't think you would pass the exam with those answers.
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Apr 15
Man those Conservative byelection numbers. 18 per cent in Scarborough Southwest. 12 per cent in University-Rosedale. 3 per cent (!) in Terrebonne.
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Apr 14
I expect we'll be hearing more about windfall taxes on Big Oil now that Avi Lewis is leader of the @NDP. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.
Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.
It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.
It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest.
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Apr 14
Wasted opportunity. A $2.4 billion push to fossil fuel use. After you cancelled the carbon tax. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
Apr 14
We’re saving you money at the pump. Starting next Monday, we’re suspending the federal Fuel Excise Tax on gasoline and diesel across Canada.
You’ll save up to 10 cents per litre from April 20 until Labour Day.
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20 years ago we gave up our car and switched to #Modo car share. I charted our average monthly costs from June 2007 to March 2026.
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Apr 5
Yes, the sun does't shine at night, but batteries produced electricity every minute last night (4/4) as California set a new discharge record of 57.17 GWh/day.
Batteries have met 8.01% of all main-grid demand in 2026 in the 4th-largest economy in the world.
The batteries cost (if bought today) only ~0.28 cents/kWh-grid-output, or 0.86% the cost of grid electricity in CA.
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Mar 29
UK's transition to what could be lowest-cost electricity in Europe is through a mix of renewables, nuclear, & marginal natural gas use. Energy shocks only encourage the move away by importer states (🇨🇦customers) from fossil fuel to more resilient renewables. #cdnpoli
Mar 29
Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding. observer.co.uk/news/columnis…
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Mar 9
The solar revolution is driven not by green ambitions but by falling prices, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/ZFTMi9e
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Mar 5
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-…
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BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1
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