By Jeff Passmore, a founder and chair of Scaling Up – Canada’s annual industrial bioeconomy business conference – and CEO of Passmore Group Inc. Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the […]
Archives for February 2020
anthropocene now official
It’s official now. We’re in the anthropocene.
Where Do Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Come From?
by Ryan Smith Earth’s atmosphere is made up of many different gases, some of which are “greenhouse” gases. They are called that because they effectively act like a greenhouse or a layer of insulation for Earth: they trap heat and warm the planet. For the past couple of hundred years, human activities (such as burning coal […]
Exaggeration or denial
David Dougherty and Bill Pugsley, CACOR members, are concerned about Climate Change deniers and the Australian wild fires. David Dougherty comments: “Some new material. Perhaps sobering, if not frightening. We should all watch it and commit it to memory for instances in which we encounter climate change deceivers.” Bill Pugsley comments: As a comment on […]
Global warming solutions, explained
Humans have the solutions to address climate change. The question is: Do we have the will? By Christina Nunez PUBLISHED January 24, 2019 The evidence that humans are causing climate change, with drastic consequences for life on the planet, is overwhelming, but the question of what to do about it remains controversial. Economics, sociology, and […]