Welcome to the Climate Change News pages of Graeme Elliott


The Guardian newspaper does not paywall their stuff and thus stands out in their climate reporting, and so it is heavily represented here.
It has daily coverage of some aspects of climate, weather or environmental crises,
with a strong UK and Australian bent, of course, but lots of global coverage.
What is happening in their backyard matters, so we can learn from the failures of the UK, EU, US and Oz.
Stories are sorted from most recent added to earliest added. I do the updates about once a week.


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Select a link from this table to see stories entered in the database in that year and month. I enter story links once a week, so there are batches on each date.

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Links to climate change news stories
Entry DateTopicNews of the World
2025-10-07PoliticsSmith throws a dead cat on the table
2025-09-23PoliticsCanada won't meet emission reduction target
2025-09-23PoliticsCarbon Carney protests
2025-09-16PoliticsClimate changing for Carney II
2025-09-16PoliticsOntario fails to cap old wells

Oh, well

2025-09-16PoliticsDown Under government notices something going on about climate changing, maybe
2025-09-16PoliticsClimate changing for Carney
2025-08-26PoliticsDanielle's master plan
2025-08-19PoliticsOily donation to GOPs pay off big

Grand Oil Party?

2025-08-19PoliticsParachute Pierre lands in oil country
2025-08-12PoliticsCarney will fail on climate targets
2025-08-05PoliticsTrump climate report lacking in science or truth stuff

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-07-29PoliticsMoron this later

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-07-29PoliticsNice idea but it will not be allowed to happen
2025-07-15PoliticsChemtrails and the EPA

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-07-15PoliticsSenator snorts
2025-07-08PoliticsWhat a nice idea

govt FOR people

2025-07-08PoliticsThe cowardly liars that doom us
2025-06-25PoliticsCarney-vores tear into the body of law
2025-06-17PoliticsEnvironment? In this economy?
2025-06-03PoliticsEby guts enviro regs for better photo-ops
2025-05-28PoliticsEnergy trumps climate in Canada

what climate?

2025-05-20PoliticsOntario Unregulated
2025-05-20PoliticsOily politicians of Alberta
2025-05-07PoliticsDanielle in the Regulators den
2025-05-07PoliticsTrump guts EPA

and endangers Biden voters

2025-04-30PoliticsClimate Carney-age
2025-04-23PoliticsEnd of the carbon price rebates
2025-04-23PoliticsBC forestry and the pols
2025-04-23PoliticsCarney and the climate
2025-04-15PoliticsTrumpf cuts climate news
2025-04-08PoliticsPipelines are in the pipeline
2025-04-08PoliticsOz-tinction not an issue
2025-04-01PoliticsClimate purge reversal

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-03-25PoliticsThe price of protest just got inflated
2025-03-25PoliticsCarbon pricing up in the air
2025-03-18PoliticsSmith wants more concessions from Carbon Carney
2025-03-18PoliticsEPA rollbacks to cause harm

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-03-11PoliticsBC easing up on environment protection

LNG, bab, LNG

2025-03-11PoliticsUS abandons global efforts to fix stuff
2025-03-11PoliticsBig Oil owns US politics

bought and paid for

2025-03-11PoliticsTrumpf Second Reich: the battle against climate information
2025-03-04PoliticsCitizens of Nowhere
2025-03-04PoliticsFighting against climate change news
2025-02-25PoliticsClimate research stuck at the Elongate
2025-02-25PoliticsTrumpf orange crushes climate research
2025-02-25PoliticsTrumpf fast-tracking climate disaster
2025-02-18PoliticsFossil fueller to run US parks

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-02-18PoliticsUS renewables growth must be Trumped

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-02-18PoliticsWeather the lies continue is up to Neil Jacobs

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-02-18PoliticsNOAA goaa awayaa

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-02-11PoliticsBC on the fast frack to hell
2025-02-11PoliticsTrump trumps climate truth with a purge

Soviet style MAGA

2025-02-04PoliticsDoug Ford government exempts government from government
2025-02-04PoliticsGeorge and the Labour Dragon
2025-01-28PoliticsNot everyone agrees with Trumpf

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-01-28PoliticsKill, baby, kill

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-01-28PoliticsWe won't always have Paris

Trumpf's Second Reich

2025-01-21PoliticsSubsidy phase out fails

US too little, too late

2025-01-21PoliticsCanada carbon tax failure

we are doomed

2025-01-21PoliticsLNG runs BC now
2025-01-14PoliticsTrump expansion driven by climate crisis
2025-01-07PoliticsGreen oil investments
2025-01-07PoliticsTrump climate policy might be a step backwards
2024-12-16PoliticsProvinces need to cut emissions

duh

2024-12-16PoliticsIs there skullduggery in Alberta
2024-12-16PoliticsBig dumb blondes get into tariff tussle
2024-12-03PoliticsVanuatu to take the rich countries to court
2024-12-03PoliticsPlastic, plastic everywhere
2024-12-03PoliticsDanielle fights the law

will the law win?

2024-11-26PoliticsClimate action may suffer due to big election year
2024-11-26PoliticsWhat will Harper do with a pile of money in Alberta?

reduce emissions?

2024-11-26PoliticsHarper is back and he has a lot of money to run a petrostate
2024-11-19PoliticsCOP delegates try to get a bit of truth into the mix
2024-11-19PoliticsHE's Back. And she want your CPP
2024-11-05PoliticsPolitical bickering not politically correct in Spain

just fix it

2024-11-05PoliticsWill Trump trump Paris
2024-10-22PoliticsChip makers get dealt a free to pollute card
2024-10-22PoliticsPeople vote for the turkey
2024-10-22PoliticsDanielle should scrap this crap
2024-10-15PoliticsBC voters facing a no-choice election
2024-09-23PoliticsGeopolitics sideshow to real security threats
2024-09-23PoliticsNDP craven carbon collapse or cagey politics
2024-09-17PoliticsPoiliever goes off deep end

MPs baffled by leader

2024-09-17PoliticsNDP running in fright to the right
2024-09-17PoliticsEby does a Poilever

into the shallow end

2024-09-17PoliticsPshaw to PFAS rules

chemicals forever!

2024-09-10PoliticsJohn Rustad: climate denier or climate dork

You decide at ballot box

2024-09-10PoliticsDragon bites back
2024-09-10PoliticsOz delays new targets for no real reason

and thus delays reaching same

2024-09-03PoliticsGas bag links wind power to pork barrel
2024-08-27PoliticsRepublicans aiming at dismantling climate policy

don't let them in

2024-08-27PoliticsMoe wants to pipe some water and much cash
2024-08-20PoliticsDoug now OK with green energy

who phoned him?

2024-08-20PoliticsTrumping the enivornment in 2025
2024-08-13PoliticsGo big to evade the carbon tax
2024-08-13PoliticsUS lawmakers still in deny mode
2024-08-13PoliticsUS has a choice too

Not Trump

2024-07-30PoliticsAxe the Poliver
2024-07-30PoliticsEgypt ruining the desert water
2024-07-30PoliticsNorway claims to be green locally

is oil state globally

2024-07-23PoliticsNZ backtracks to failure
2024-07-23PoliticsSaskatchewan carbon tax ruckus
2024-07-16PoliticsFar-right finds bright side of climate crisis
2024-06-25PoliticsAlberta lady wastes tax money
2024-06-17PoliticsAlberta Ministry of Untruth dissolved

You can't lie as much as you used to

2024-06-17PoliticsAlberta Ministry of Untruth dissolved
2024-06-17PoliticsDoug steps up for the climate transition
2024-06-17PoliticsLiberal spill the carbon data
2024-06-17PoliticsRussia at war with the climate
2024-06-17PoliticsAB MLA hounded out of office
2024-06-10PoliticsWealthy climate sceptics influencing politics

Who knew?

2024-06-05PoliticsThe carbon price we pay is lack of truth
2024-06-05PoliticsAB Ministry of Oil and Gas
2024-06-05PoliticsAlberta fights for false advertising by Oil and Gas Industry
2024-06-05PoliticsRight wing nut bars hurt us all
2024-06-05PoliticsCarbon Pierre's math might be wonky
2024-06-05PoliticsPBO boo-boo

oopsie

2024-06-05PoliticsNZ axing climate policies

cut it all down

2024-05-21PoliticsPoliver wants to increase gasoline demand
2024-05-21PoliticsNo climate change in Florida

Governor says so

2024-05-21PoliticsBig Trump bribes Big Oil with Big Tax break
2024-05-14PoliticsWoke up and smell the coffee
2024-05-14PoliticsAlberta govt lied about renewables pause

it is alleged

2024-05-14PoliticsTrump prepared to swap civilization for cash
2024-05-14PoliticsBC emissions rise... or do they

squabbling ensues

2024-05-07PoliticsOntario emissions rising again
2024-05-01PoliticsPoilievre joins carbon protest

Alex Jones likes him

2024-05-01PoliticsKill the messenger is the best policy
2024-04-22PoliticsTMX welding nearly done pumping soon starting
2024-04-22PoliticsFord govt interferes on behalf of Enbridge

golly

2024-04-22PoliticsScots can walk backwards
2024-04-16PoliticsSome judge thinks govt should be transparent

FOI

2024-04-16PoliticsClimate action delayers take over from climate change deniers
2024-04-11PoliticsAlberta oil and water don't mix

Repeat until acted on

2024-04-11PoliticsDoug and the carbon tax he brought to Ontario
2024-04-02PoliticsSaskatchewan budget mute on climate change
2024-04-02PoliticsLiars with pants (and climate) on fire
2024-03-27PoliticsPP seeks regime change
2024-03-27PoliticsIf not a carbon price, what?
2024-03-12PoliticsBiden can walk backwards
2024-03-12PoliticsBig Oil blocked Little Green
2024-02-28PoliticsTrudeau complains about oil industry

Smith denounces everything

2024-02-20PoliticsAlberta disagrees with Ottawa

duh

2024-02-20PoliticsWater down the profits
2024-02-20PoliticsAxing the branding of the taxing
2024-02-13PoliticsNDP stands firmly here and there on this and that maybe

Angus angst

2024-02-13PoliticsBiden shut down LNG

is there an election coming

2024-02-02PoliticsBiden pauses LNG build

but for how long

2024-01-24PoliticsUCP brought on AB electricity short
2024-01-24PoliticsRepublicans unaware of climate crisis
2024-01-16PoliticsPollyver will axe the rebates
2024-01-09PoliticsBig Dark Money conspiracy runs the show
2024-01-01PoliticsNukes in Oz misrepresented by politician
2024-01-01PoliticsDanielle Smith and the CCS unicorns
2023-12-19PoliticsEby likes fossil fool jobs
2023-12-12PoliticsMs. Smith goes to greenwashing town
2023-12-05PoliticsSmith fighting regs that may never happen
2023-12-05PoliticsMs Smith goes to COP

to sell Alberta

2023-11-28PoliticsDS acts like a sovereign
2023-11-28PoliticsBC has denial running through it
2023-11-28PoliticsPoilievre BS about Ukraine carbon
2023-11-28PoliticsA bully for you
2023-11-21PoliticsDanielle Smith BS gusher continues
2023-11-21PoliticsGreen money tsar conflicted maybe

it is alleged

2023-11-14PoliticsCarbon price till take a toll at poll
2023-11-14PoliticsOil and gas are OK says Nut Zero Minister
2023-11-14PoliticsSunak sucks back climate fixes
2023-11-07PoliticsBut pols may not live to see consequences of their BS

some of them are quite old

2023-11-07PoliticsTime to Roundup the politicians in US
2023-11-07PoliticsThe One Stooge
2023-11-07PoliticsLibs make carbon price political

Dumb

2023-11-07PoliticsHow a carbon price works
2023-11-07PoliticsHeating oil is the worst way to heat a house

But it makes for lots of hot air

2023-11-07Politicsconservative pols do not care
2023-10-31PoliticsBiden is a gas bag
2023-10-31PoliticsBiden is a gas bag
2023-10-31PoliticsBiden is a gas bag
2023-10-31PoliticsLiberals change carbon pricing

for votes

2023-10-31PoliticsBig Fossil Fuel buys fossil fools
2023-10-24PoliticsGovts still push bad policy against good advice
2023-10-24PoliticsMay wants better environment laws

Mulroney was right

2023-10-17PoliticsPoliticians fail us
2023-10-17PoliticsTMX is a failed investment
2023-10-17PoliticsSupreme Court opens up pipeline builds
2023-10-03PoliticsAussie politician wrong about climate change
2023-09-26PoliticsWho makes you vote against your self-interest?

Lobbyists.

2023-09-26PoliticsLeadership, schmeadership
2023-09-19PoliticsSmith is captured by carbon
2023-09-19PoliticsThe rich run the show

ruin the show

2023-09-19PoliticsDoug hides the truth
2023-09-19PoliticsSenior get it done
2023-09-12PoliticsRun and hide Rishi
2023-09-12PoliticsJail the messenger
2023-09-05PoliticsSmith fashions trouble for renewables
2023-08-29PoliticsPeople think different than politicians

Weird

2023-08-29PoliticsPouring money of the fossil fuel fires
2023-08-29PoliticsGOP leadership on climate change

Not so much

2023-08-29PoliticsGummint money still flows to fossils fools
2023-08-22PoliticsDid Danielle Smith talk to Oz?
2023-08-22PoliticsDanielle Smith BS gusher in AB
2023-08-22PoliticsCOPout28 gas washing
2023-08-15PoliticsSmith fashions nonsense policy
2023-08-08PoliticsEcologic recession
2023-08-08PoliticsWashing COP28 image
2023-08-01PoliticsMisrepresenting climate crisis for personal gain
2023-08-01PoliticsUK politics leads the way

to the inferno

2023-08-01PoliticsAnother Trump will make if even worse
2023-07-25PoliticsCrappy governments do crappy things for votes
2023-07-25PoliticsLiberals cannot quite ever do the right thing
2023-07-25PoliticsUK politics is an example of not works

Just like us

2023-07-18PoliticsCanada wants to halt sea mining

but run oil and gas

2023-07-18PoliticsLiberals continue to pour money on Alberta
2023-07-18PoliticsRepublicants

they are nuts

2023-07-05PoliticsUK backing off on pledge to help
2023-06-28PoliticsNo body needs water on a hot day
2023-06-28PoliticsFrance is good and mal
2023-06-28PoliticsDark money and dark deeds
2023-06-20PoliticsThe Right is wrong
2023-06-13PoliticsDoug Ford want to burn more wood
2023-06-13PoliticsClimate do-nothings cost more in long run
2023-06-13PoliticsPols waste time with talk while Canada burns
2023-06-13PoliticsWill COP28 cop out
2023-05-30PoliticsDeSantis is not good for the sante
2023-05-30PoliticsWhat happens when a petrostate runs a COP?

nothing good

2023-05-14PoliticsUK cops can arrest you for darn near anything a UK cop want to arrest you for

Is that coming here?

2023-04-27PoliticsLet us diddle and dawdle with tech that might work maybe someday
2023-04-05PoliticsJust the guys you need to host COP
2023-04-05PoliticsAll the countries will miss all their targets all the time
2023-04-05PoliticsBecause drilling is good for the Climate Joe
2023-04-05Politicsshould make it easier to hold countries accountable for failures

but will it

2023-03-08PoliticsKiller coal and oil vs COVID

can we get a vaccine against fossil fools

2023-03-08PoliticsWhither China?
2023-02-28PoliticsWho will write our history of fossil fools
2023-01-24PoliticsGreta disapproves of COP chief
2023-01-17PoliticsYou cannot trust the COPs

Oil owns the COP

2023-01-17PoliticsThe US likes oil first, climate action third
2023-01-17PoliticsThe fox is now the head of the henhouse cartel
2023-01-05PoliticsJohn Kerry says rich must pay

but US does not

2022-12-29PoliticsUS fails to pull weight
2022-12-22PoliticsClimate change is not fair
2022-12-22PoliticsStupid govmint subsidies
2022-12-15PoliticsPoison your own wells
2022-12-15PoliticsThe US as a climate rogue state
2022-12-15PoliticsRemember Kyoto
2022-12-15PoliticsUS to criticize UK, maybe

Sure

2022-11-30PoliticsLoss and damage fund agreement

but nothing will happen

2022-11-30PoliticsCop28 will be run by big oil
2022-11-30PoliticsCop28 in a petrostate

this will work

2022-11-30PoliticsCop 27 generates emissions of pretty words of blah
2022-11-30PoliticsUS is fossil fool
2022-11-22PoliticsA global fail
2022-11-22PoliticsWoke up people
2022-11-22PoliticsAmericans vote for climate fixes
2022-11-22PoliticsBut will the rich really, really pay up

no

2022-11-22PoliticsWe will blow right past 1.5
2022-11-15PoliticsMaggie knew but did not follow through
2022-11-15PoliticsOz is suddenly all climatey goodness
2022-10-31PoliticsGovts still over subsidizing oil and gas and coal

they could spend it on renewables

2022-10-31PoliticsTargets are fine but actually doing something might work better
2022-10-31PoliticsGovernment refusals to act is costing us all a nice place to live
2022-10-25PoliticsThe price of Carbon

CBC refers to it as a tax instead of a price

2022-10-23PoliticsLogging is bad for trees
2022-10-23PoliticsEgypt is not the best place for a COP
2022-10-23PoliticsUK protects the rich and the powerful

who knew

2022-10-23PoliticsConservation conversations
2022-10-17PoliticsThe rich should help the poor and most affected

Dream on.

2022-10-17PoliticsNot knowing is the best policy
2022-10-17PoliticsSo a public good IS as public good
2022-10-09PoliticsFracking bastard
2022-10-04PoliticsLizard Truss sez burn it all
2022-09-27PoliticsOntario does something
2022-09-06PoliticsGovernment money pump just keeps on turning.
2022-08-29PoliticsDoug Ford shut down wind farms in Ontario...
2022-08-16PoliticsFossil fools?
2022-07-31Politicsbecause governments just roll over.
2022-07-31Politicsthe prezzie did not act on this clear and prescient danger.
2022-07-31PoliticsA memo to a US prezzie-thingy tells us we could have started fixing things in 1977. But...

In any of my pages, "GHG" means Greenhouse Gas, and may imply carbon dioxide only or any of the known large-scale gaseous contributors to climate havoc. Nitrous Oxide, as used for a pain-killer during childbirth or dentistry, is not one of those. All other Nitrous Oxide applications and other NOx gases are.