Improved resilience has emerged as a top priority for the U.S. power grid. Efforts to mitigate wildfire risk in Northern California last year led to hundreds of thousands of electricity customers being disconnected from the grid. During hurricane season, customers in the Eastern and Southern U.S. often face the associated threat of multi-day power outages. […]
Lessons from the CACOR Pathways Study
The straight goods, not the sunny ways John Hollins, 2020 March 6 2030 The likelihood that Canada as a country will meet the commitment that it made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions by 30% between 2005 and 2030 is vanishingly small. The earliest politically and practically feasible year may be 2050. Large differences […]
Hunger rising due to extreme weather
Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a […]
Carbon offsets – an opinion
Dr. John Hollins, past CACOR Chair shares his opinion on Carbon Offsets. Definition A carbon offset is a credit for greenhouse gas reduction achieved by one party that can be purchased and used to compensate (offset) the emissions of another party. (David Suzuki Foundation) Win-win? At first glance, carbon offsets appear to be a good […]
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 […]