Last week the International Energy Agency released a new report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, in which it reported that the world is drifting ever further from the 2oC target that was agreed to at the Copenhagen climate conference in December… Read More »Changing views in the energy sector on the need to act on climate change
Remember Uncle Remus’s tar baby? It sat there seductively, but had a tendency to trap anyone who touched it and got entangled in its stickiness. The Harper government and the Alberta government increasingly look entangled as they flail about, desperately… Read More »Tar Babies, Pipelines, Plunderers and Stewards: A review of the environmental impacts of development of the Athabasca tar sands
On May 9th 2013, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere atop Mauna Loa exceeded 400ppm for the first time since recording commenced in 1958. It was last at this level over 3 million years ago, before our wise human… Read More »400ppm, a milestone or a nail in our shared coffin? Thoughts on environment.