Intensity-based targets for the oil sands are inadequate
There has been a bit of talk in the media about adopting federal intensity-based greenhouse gas pollution standards for the oil sands: “The federal government is using Alberta’s greenhouse-gas...
View ArticleCanada should phase-out fossil fuel exports
There are a few scientific facts about the world that are vital and increasingly well understood. Foremost among them is the reality that human beings have already put a dangerous amount of greenhouse...
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New record sea ice low
According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center the Arctic summer sea ice has reached a new record low, below the shockingly low value from 2007.
View ArticleClimate change and democratic legitimacy
The ordinary understanding of the legitimacy of democratic governments is that their authority derives from a popular mandate; the government can legitimately impose laws on citizens because those...
View ArticleClimate change and status quo bias
One perpetual question in climate politics is whether radical political change is necessary to achieve climatic stability, or whether the necessary energy transition can be achieved in a ‘stealthy’...
View ArticleGardiner on our interests and obligations
“The dominant reason for acting on climate change is not that it would make us better off. It is that not acting involves taking advantage of the poor, the future, and nature. We can hope that...
View ArticleMark Jacobson’s bold plan for renewables
This is a talk given by Mark Jacobson from Stanford, entitled: “A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables” His slides are also available.
View ArticleDemocracy Now! “Will 350.org Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Be Key Tactic in...
Today, the radio program Democracy Now! featured Bill McKibben, talking about the 350.org divestment campaign. There is information about it on their website.
View ArticleIPCC AR5, Working Group I summary video
Working Group I of the IPCC has released a nine-minute video summarizing the science in the first part of the latest assessment report:
View ArticleWhy divest from fossil fuels?
Campaigns at universities especially can benefit from this document, prepared for the University of Toronto: The Fossil Fuel Industry and the Case for Divestment: Update, by Toronto350.org Contributors...
View ArticleTwo things Canada’s oil industry needs to understand
First — any expectation that ‘business as usual’ in the sense of rapid growth in production will return is ill-founded. Most importantly, this is because an effective global transition to low-carbon...
View ArticleJeyakumar on phasing out coal
The Pembina Institute’s Binnu Jeyakumar recently wrote an op-ed about the future of coal: In the midst of all the recent colourful political events south of the border, you might have easily missed an...
View ArticleNo end of bad news
The IPCC has issued a new warning about how we have a stark and immediate choice between abandoning fossil fuels or dangerously destabilizing the Earth’s climate. If anything, we seem less well...
View ArticleBanks could stop funding fossil fuel extraction
Bill McKibben has a New Yorker article out where he describes how banks could hasten the transition to decarbonization by increasingly refusing to lend to the fossil fuel industry: So what would happen...
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