Dr. John Hollins, past Chair Canadian Club of Rome published an article in the Globe and Mail. CANADIAN CLIMATE Re Tough Math: Accounting For Climate Change (Editorial, Jan. 2) The Globe’s editorial reads: “The peril of climate change is recent.” Not as old as business itself, certainly, but what is actually recent is widespread appreciation of […]
Stewing in our own Slime
Great Lakes Are Record Warm Right Now. Here’s Why That Matters. By Tom Niziol July 15 2020 01:30 PM EDT weather.com Hundreds of Toxic Superfund Sites at Risk of Flooding, Study Finds A new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists warns that hundreds of toxic Superfund sites could flood in the next two decades and […]
Kearl Bitumen Mine by David Dougherty
David Dougherty, member of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, writes: Synopsis of the Review Panel Report on the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Kearl Bitumen Mine. June 2019 This is a very quick analysis of the archived review panel report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA). I have not covered everything in the panel […]
reminding–1.5 degrees
Nearing 1.5 degrees I try not to be repetitive here, but,…
God, Man, Tech and Climate: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber paints a picture for the Club of Rome
The Club of Rome, an organisation of experts on the state of the planet long concerned about that state, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a conference. Some four hundred souls gather in muggy Rome, in an airless auditorium in the shadow of the Vatican. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, one of the world’s greatest climate scientists, has […]