The Venetians did not build the Piazza San Marco so that it would flood on high tides. Relative to the piazza, sea level is higher now than when it was built. At Venice, sea level is higher partly because the… Read More »Shifting Baselines and Lack of Awareness of Environmental Change: A Sea Level Story
Three articles in the 26 October edition of Science caught my attention and prompted these comments. The first, by Chris Costello of Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, and several west coast colleagues concerns our harvest of the world’s ‘unassessed’… Read More »Global overfishing, contaminated fish, the environmental crisis continues.
Here we go again. I’ll be brief, but the Harper government has tabled its latest budget bill – 443 pages stuffed with things that should not be there. What will it take to get them to play by the rules?… Read More »Erosion of environmental protection, and of democracy in Canada: C-45, environment, pipelines, and tar sands