"HOW IS THAT RIDICULOUS?"
My current favourite conservative meme is a video showing Joe Rogan proposing to his guest, "You have people like Bill Gates saying that...
Jun 28 min read
"FASTER THAN THE REST!"
Spain warming faster than rest of northern hemisphere: study - Apr 2010 https://phys.org/news/2010-04-spain-faster-rest-northern-hemisp...
Apr 272 min read
RECORD RETURNS
The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society was established in 2001. Their objective is to restore and sustain local aquatic wildlife...
Mar 31 min read
NEW IN PERU
A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...
Dec 23, 20245 min read
SALMON RUN
The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...
Nov 3, 20241 min read
IT'S UP TO YOU
I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...
Oct 19, 20243 min read
NOT SO FAST
According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...
Oct 16, 20243 min read
HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
Sep 4, 20245 min read
COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
Aug 14, 20244 min read
A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
Aug 10, 20245 min read
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
Jun 23, 202433 min read
A GOOD WAR?
Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish...
Sep 29, 20235 min read
FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
Aug 19, 20234 min read
THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “ July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history .” “July...
Jul 29, 20237 min read
TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
Jun 12, 20239 min read
UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
May 29, 202311 min read
THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
Apr 3, 20235 min read
HOW ARE SEA STARS DOING?
You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....
Jan 8, 20236 min read
