As a coral reef ecologist interested in the global environmental crisis because of its impacts on my favorite ecosystem, should I be devoting so many entries on this blog to Canada’s policy on greenhouse gases? I think I should. As… Read More »Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Policy — Is there one?
Most people in North America are aware that we have been having a particularly warm and dry year. Many of us attribute this to global climate change. Some of us are concerned about this. Others of us maintain it is… Read More »Environmental Crisis? Not for Our Political Leaders
Two recent papers in the prestigious journal Nature caught my eye. That scientists are even publishing such papers, and that journals of the caliber of Nature publish them, says a lot about the state of our world. I’ll deal first… Read More »The State of the Earth — What are we doing?