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350 or bust: More Light Shed On Origin And Veracity Of Heartland Documents

Dr. Peter Gleick is the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. His bio states that he is a hydroclimatologist by training, with a B.S. from Yale University and an...

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350 or bust: Summer of 2012: North Americans Begin to Harvest Climate Chaos...

A friend and newly graduated family physician told us a story about a young man who came to his clinic for medical advice. The young man was having a hard time adjusting to being away from home for the...

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350 or bust: Dirty Energy Produces Dirty Weather & Dirty Politics

Casy answered him. “It’s ever’body,” he said. “Here’s me that used to give all my fight against the devil ’cause I figgered the devil was the enemy. But they’s somepin worse’n the devil got a hold a...

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350 or bust: Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bottom Line Will Destroy Our Climate: Do...

Wednesday night was one to remember. After a scramble to get my passport renewed (I only noticed last week it had expired over the summer), my husband and I traveled by ferry from Victoria British...

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350 or bust: Naomi Klein: Do The Math, The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Destroying...

Naomi Klein was out in the shattered neighbourhood of Rockaway Park Queens last weekend, participating in the Occupy relief efforts there. In this interview she underscores the importance of both...

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350 or bust: Greedy Lying Bastards: Exposing The Fossil Fools Who Put Profit...

* One of the few-and-far-between perks of being a climate blogger is that occasionally I get access to books and movies before the general public does. This past weekend I got to watch “Greedy Lying...

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The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: 10 KXL Amendment Co-Sponsors Took...

Average KXL Amendment Co-Sponsor has Taken 2.5 Times More Money from Industry Than Non-Sponsors, New Research Shows By: Oil Change International | Press Release: WASHINGTON – New research from Oil...

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Alberta Diary: Climate change divestment movement gains ground in church –...

Ho-hum... Some typical Canadian reporters, hard at work … Actual Canadian newsrooms may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Is he more influential than we imagined in...

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Cowichan Conversations: We Are Being Occupied by Steve Harper–Canada’s Worst...

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The Disaffected Lib: We Have to Take Down the Fossil Fuel Industry. That...

He’s probably the most prominent climate scientist most North Americans have never heard of but you can get caught up by reading his Wiki entry here.  He’s Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and when he...

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Cowichan Conversations: How To Let Go Of The World And Love All The Things...

Like many of you, I have watched Gasland, Gasland II and the Sky Is Pink. Josh Fox has been a trailblazer digging in and challenging the oil and gas trade. He has set the bar. Read more... . . . → Read...

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Alberta Politics: Forgotten amid pipeline war brouhaha, new study details...

PHOTOS: There’s no Plan B! And Alberta’s five largest oilsands producers have set no targets let alone taken action to get their emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. (Illustration:...

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Alberta Politics: If there was ever a time for the U of A to stick to its...

The University of Alberta’s dean of engineering believes his faculty faces “the worst crisis, a crisis of trust, that we’ve faced in more than three decades.” The immediate cause of this perceived...

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Alberta Politics: If F. W. de Klerk’s apartheid comparison to the fossil fuel...

A speech in Calgary last week by the last white president of South Africa in which F. W. de Klerk suggested the challenges faced by

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Alberta Politics: University of Calgary acted like ‘Big Oil U’ in 2015...

It’s not every day you see terms like “corporate obstructionism” and “institutional corruption” used to describe the way things are done at one Canadian university

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Alberta Politics: Corporate Mapping Project names top fossil-fuel emitters,...

“The fossil fuel industry … is the biggest obstacle to real action on climate change today,” says the co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, which this morning published an eye-opening list of...

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Alberta Politics: Alberta’s foreign-funded-fossil-fuel defamation...

Here are three predictions about Jason Kenney’s inquiry into that “foreign-funded defamation campaign” against Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. It will be a gong show It will cost far more than $2.5...

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Alberta Politics: Environmental Defence study concludes Canada’s emissions...

Research published this morning by Environmental Defence Canada concludes adoption of the powerful Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers lobby group’s election wish list would increase Canadian...

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Cowichan Conversations: If Saudi Arabia is in trouble, the rest of the...

Governments Need to Face Reality — the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing     Government still subsidizes the oil and gas industry, even as the Bank of Canada warns of investment risks. Photo Read more…

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Alberta Politics: Brace yourself, Alberta, Toyota’s plan to build electric...

Word about solid-state batteries out of Toyota City last week created a buzz in the automotive press and got some headlines on social media, but I doubt very many people out here in Wild Rose Country...

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