The Atlantic Coast gets hit by record snowfall, and immediately the climate change skeptics come out of the woodwork. “This proves climate change and global warming is a hoax!” they scream. Presently at the Olympics, Vancouver’s interior inland is expected to hit 16 Celsius today – temperatures they don’t normally get to June. Snow [...]
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Tags: climate change, global extreme weather, global warming | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics, Misc |
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 | Trackback for this entryHarper decided not to bother speaking at the Copenhagen Environmental Summit; he decided to send Environment Minister Jim Prentice instead to make Canada’s speech: Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and Jim Prentice? While other world leaders have taken to the podium this week to address delegates at the Copenhagen climate [...] Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, environment, global warming, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis is called knowing when to effectively use your time in the spotlight to highlight important issues, such as climate change: Canada’s Winter Olympic athletes are calling on the prime minister to support an agreement on cutting greenhouse gases at the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen. Former Olympic skier Thomas Grandi delivered [...] Tags: Canadian athletes, climate change, global warming, Stephen Harper, Vancouver 2010 | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis prelude to a climate change article in the NY Times by the Washington Monthly is an appropriate segue to my title, which I’ll explain in a bit: Some of the lazier lawmakers and activists on the far-right not only reject all of the science on climate change, but in light of the CRU [...] Tags: climate change, Colby Cosh, global warming | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryNo measurable snow fell in Toronto today; this is the first time in 162 years, according to the Toronto meteorologists, that no measurable snowfall fell in the city of Toronto (during the entire month of November) . With isolated exceptions, that is pretty much also the case for the rest of Southern/Southwestern Ontario. If [...] Tags: climate change, global warming, Toronto | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryMore on the Afghanistan inquiry soon, but in case you missed it, Colby “I think global warming is overblown” Cosh, recently let go by the departed from the National Post, has found employment at Macleans. You can guess what he’s writing about – he’s picked up where he left off by spewing the same [...] Tags: climate change, climate change deniers, climate change skeptics, Colby Cosh, global warming | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis was being passed around late yesterday from an environmental group, and it’s humourous and appalling at the same time, showing Stephen Harper being a “no-show” at the UN (to quote Bob Fife). Tags: climate change, donuts, Stephen Harper, UN | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryYour latest attempt by Harper to show how “tough” he and the Conservatives are on the Arctic: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will arrive in Iqaluit on Monday as part of an Arctic trip that will include observing an anti-submarine warfare exercise. The prime minister will board the frigate HMCS Toronto on Wednesday to observe [...] Tags: Arctic, climate change, Stephen Harper | Category: Canadian Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryThis isnt surprising at all, but it continues to be embarrassing: Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears set to clash with European Union leaders over Canada’s climate change efforts at an annual summit.. A draft version of the communiqué to be signed in Prague tomorrow indicates Canada is resisting a push to bring its greenhouse [...] Tags: climate change, environment, EU, Europe, GHG, global warming, Greenhouse gases | Category: Canadian Politics, International Politics |
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| Trackback for this entryIn the Toronto Star today, we have an article on how Harper and his Conservative government are probably going to be dragged kicking and screaming by Obama’s new administration into actually having a credible climate change fighting plan on the environment. In the midst of that article there is an excerpt which shows not [...] Tags: climate change, Harper, Obama, tar-sands | Category: American Politics, Canadian Politics |
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