climate change

In Review: Beyond Stupid

13 April, 2011 | Mark Brooks

Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, Clive Hamilton, London, UK: Earthscan, 2010, 240 pages.

I have a friend I’ll call Dave. An educated, rational and intelligent man, Dave can be counted on for thoughtful, reasoned arguments, except on one issue: climate change. He has read the overwhelming evidence, but Dave remains certain that climate change is a myth. His proof? He has none that hasn’t been dismissed repeatedly by climate scientists. Still, Dave remains steadfast and I could never understand why. Clive Hamilton may have given me the answer. …

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Published in: EcoBooks 37.3

In Review: The Two Faces of Gaia

7 December, 2010 | Kent A. Peacock

The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?, Peter Ward, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Reviewed by Kent A. Peacock.

A distinguished earth scientist, Peter Ward has spent his career studying the mass extinctions that punctuate the turbulent history of life. In The Medea Hypothesis, a rich and challenging book, he uses disconcerting results from his gloomy science to criticize James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, and sets forth, in occasionally rough-hewn but urgent prose, a stern blueprint for humanity’s future. ...

Published in: Water 37.1

Eye of the Storm

21 October, 2010 | Jeff Beyer
 EUROPE accepts the seriousness of climate change and has come to terms with how deeply carbon underpins our current economy. Europeans also look at both sides of the issue’s cost-benefit equation, and are figuring out ways to maximize the benefits. Canada, on the other hand, still clings to the notion that economic growth is inevitably tethered to rising greenhouse gas emissions and focuses almost exclusively on the costs associated with transitioning to a low-carbon economy. These contrasting approaches to climate change are producing drastically different results. ...
Published in: Biodiversity 36.6

Black Box of Federal Climate Policy

9 June, 2010 | Jeff Beyer

There have always been strains between Canadian provinces. Differences in prosperity, language and geography are thorns that tend to irk interprovincial relations, and climate change is emerging as the latest thorn.

The new federal greenhouse gas target of a 17-per-cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 (released through the Copenhagen Accord) will actually let national emissions rise compared to 1990. Since the federal government has not yet released its plan for how to meet that target, the provinces are busy calculating what impact these reductions will have ...
 

Mending our Fuelish Ways

15 December, 2009 | Kyrke Gaudreau
 “I really don’t see it as a supply issue; I see it as a destroy-the-planet issue.” Ominous words from Mark Jaccard, an author and renowned energy economist from Simon Fraser University. In the same conversation, Jaccard suggested that the Earth’s atmosphere may one day resemble that of Venus. I’ve always wanted to visit other planets, I think to myself. Perhaps I should settle for having them visit me...
Published in: New Energy 36.1

Green Collar Revolution

15 October, 2009 | Stephen Hazell

Green Collar Revolution

Kids are smart. They get it. Over the past year, I have spoken to hundreds of university students in Eastern Canada. First, I present scientific evidence that demands we put a price on carbon and move to a low-carbon economy. Next, I pose the question: Which sectors will be the winners and which will be the losers in this new economy?

Published in: Work 35.6

In Review: Still to Come

18 June, 2009 | Peter Robinson

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future, Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed., Toronto: Random House Canada, 2009, 224 pages. Reviewed by Peter Robinson.

Reviews

28 May, 2009 | Terry Fenge and Andrew Heintzman

Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia by Tony Penikett

The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger Martin ...

Review: Fleeting Opportunity

28 May, 2009 | Michal C. Moore

Cimate change, climate forcing, global warming – all these terms frame a collective public debate about the future of the world as we know it. Since that “world” is dynamic and geographically diverse, it is not surprising that political responses range widely from hand-wringing to commitment and resignation, to disbelief and reticence, or even outright denial.

Science Desk

27 May, 2009 | Kasia Kaluzny

They waddle on land, torpedo in water and wear adorable tuxedos. And if that isn’t enough, now these flightless birds are helping researchers understand climate change. A study published last January in Geology describes how University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Steven Emslie and his colleagues excavated and carbon-dated Adèlie penguin debris to learn about fluctuations in Antarctica’s ice ages. ...

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