Canada and Climate Change

‘Town Halls’ in Toronto challenge Trudeau’s inaction on climate. John Riddell, Climate and Capitalism. Jul. 6, 2016.

Justin Trudeau is not your friend. Jordy Cummings, Jacobin. Sep. 9, 2016.

Is Win-Win Possible? Can Canada's Government Achieve its Paris Commitment... And Get Re-Elected? Mark Jaccard. Sep 20, 2016.

The New Climate Denialism: Time for an intervention. Seth Klein and Shannon Daub, PolicyNote.ca. Sep. 22, 2016.

Mark Jaccard on Political Viability, ‘Untruths’ And Why You Should Actually Read His Latest Report. James Wilt, DeSmog Canada. Sep 26, 2016.

Canada’s New Carbon Price: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Carol Linnitt, DeSmog Canada. Oct. 3, 2016.

Trudeau and the Environment: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Brad Hornick, Ricochet. Oct. 4, 2016.
Don’t get fooled again, carbon pricing isn’t the solution we need.

Canada Undermines Targets for Protecting Oceans by Increasing Oil Exploration. Jerri-Lynn Scofield, naked capitalism.

Climate Links: 10/10/2016

The fallacy of economic growth. Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org. Oct. 5, 2016.

Exploring the gap between business-as-usual and utter doom. Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute. Sep. 19, 2016.

A pocket handbook of soft climate denial. Michael Hoexter, New Economic Perspectives. Oct. 6, 2016.

‘We’d have to finish one new facility every working day for the next 70 years’—Why carbon capture is no panacea. Andy Skuce, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Oct. 4, 2016.

Just 2-3 years to lock in climate positive infrastructure investment: New Climate Economy report. Elena K. Johansson, Responsible Investor. Oct. 10, 2016.
Report recommends four major changes to make infra climate future proof rather than damaging.

Two degrees of climate change may be too much. Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Sep 4, 2015.

It's time to get serious about climate change. Seriously. Noam Chomsky, The Nation. Jun. 13, 2016.

There is no market-driven solution to our climate catastrophe. Paul Mason, Literary Hub. Feb. 22, 2016.

Capitalism cannot survive the problem it created.

Faced with a clear warning that a 4.5-billion-year-old planet is being destabilized, those in power decided that a 25-year-old economic doctrine held the solution. They resolved to incentivize lower carbon use by rationing it, taxing it and subsidizing the alternatives. Since the market is the ultimate expression of human rationality, they believed it would spur the correct allocation of resources to meet the target of the two-degree cap. It was pure ideology and it has been proved plain wrong.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe. Michael Klare, tom dispatch. September 15, 2016.

Hillary Clinton is in her own form of climate denial. Kate Aronoff, In These Times. Oct. 6, 2016.

Planetary crisis: we are not all in this together. Ian Angus. May 25, 2016.

Climate Links: 10/07/2016

Planet at its hottest in 115,000 years thanks to climate change, experts say. Oliver Milman, Guardian. Oct. 4, 2016.

How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart. Flassbeck Economics.

Recalculating the climate math. Bill McKibben, New Republic. Sep. 22, 2016.

The sky's limit: why the Paris climate goals require a managed decline of fossil fuel production. Greg Muttitt, Oil Change International. Sep. 22, 2016.

A new debate over pricing the risks of climate change. Hiroko Tabuchi and Clifford Kraus, New York Times. Sep. 26, 2016.

Hooked! The unyielding grip of fossil fuels on global life. Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.

7 signs that China is serious about combating climate change. Ben Adler, Grist. Sep. 29, 2016.

World's largest carbon-capture plant to open soon. Umair Irfan, SciAm. Oct. 4, 2016.