Welcome to the Climate Change pages of Graeme Elliott
Climate change: how we did it and what to do about it
In the early 1970s, in a first year chemistry class at SFU, I learned that carbon dioxide was already
accumulating in the atmosphere
and the basic science of carbon bonds and sunlight showed that build-up would over time
induce heating of the entire globe. The heat trapping effect of carbon dioxide and methane and other
gases was well known. The problem was easy to state, easy to understand, easy to fix.
All that was needed was to reduce emissions of
carbon dioxide (CO2) and
methane (CH4), and
other diatomic gases, and the problem was solved.
But something went wrong and we wasted 50 years and let the problem get irretrievable.
Oh well, we had a
good run, you and I.
| terraforming |
| Canada Info |
| Canadian Fire catalog |
| McKenna has advice |
| Canada climate normals for 1941-1970 and 1981-2010. We are heating up. |
| Polliver's Travels chronicles the travels of a certain Canadian who attends events featuring a certain Canadian. Is there a carbon cost of those travels? Who pays the final bill? |
| That Polliver is not to be confused by Poliver!, a griping drama about a small-town boy with a one-track mind. |
| Canada and the height of folly |
| Graphs of the most recent emissions data report values |
| A deeper dive into graphs of the most recent emissions data report values |
| Climate-Change Concerned Canadian Citizens Supporting Alberta Separatists Party |
| Disaster Doug and his crap climate attitude has set Ontario back, way back, because he savagely undid green policies the Liberal governments implemented. Politics, not pragmatics. And, with the pending shutdown of Pickering, natural gas fired power generation might shoulder more of the load and spew more GHG. And then Ontarioaniacs reelected this schmoo? Because they don't care about their kids or elders. Even the Toronto Star notices. (I purloined this copy) |
| Environment Defence studies and communicates |
| Canadian Climate Institute studies and communicates |
| Clean Energy Canada studies and communicates |
| Renewables are cheaper than gas |
| Ontario Clean Air Alliance studies and communicates |
| Raven Trust focusses on Indigenous issues |
| Cascade Institute talks about the polycrisis |
| Pembina Institute |
| Environment Canada has set up a Extreme Weather Attribution page. |
| Toronto Info |
| Toronto aspires to net zero and has a solar-power website |
| Seniors take action |
| Toronto Climate Action Network |
| Harbord Village Net Zero |
| Global Info |
| Corporate Knights "is committed to advancing an economic system in which both people and the planet can thrive." |
| World Weather Attribution rapidly analyzes a given weather event to try to determine the likelihood human-induced climate change affected or created the event. |
| Climate Attribution analyzes weather events to assist with policy-making. |
| Laura Lynch on the CBC has a good mix of Canada and Global stories. Listen up or read CBC coverage. |
| The Tyee and The Narwhal both have a Canada perspective on global issues. Read 'em and weep or support their reporting, and save the eco stuff we need for life. |
| Bill McKibben writes a substack newsletter about climate stuff. |
| Carbon Tracker studies capital and carbon |
| Urgewald Global Coal studies coal and how to stop using it |
| Carbon Brief has a lot of good science and advice. Is anyone reading? |
| Price of Oil / Oil Change follows the money |
| DeSmog tries to clear the air of misinformation, disinformation, denial, and BS. |
| Everybody talks about closing methane leaks because methane is 80 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. But plugging the leaks will not save us. These guys are on the methane watch |
| Carbon Bombs |
| Canada will not be left behind in the rush to extract more fossil fuels. Some of the big carbon bombs are right here. A nice report and the data |
| Carbon Capture is a particular bomb, as it is usually proposed as a tool to cut the emissions of producers, but without regard to the emissions of the burnt product. Canada has wagered some public money on this spurios tech-fix to the delight of Pathways Alliance, and Alberta is betting big. We will all suffer directly, both from the climate change and from the lost opportunity to spend those tax dollars on useful climate-fixing proven generation technologies like solar, wind, tide, mini- and micro-hydro and geothermal. Alberta places a big bet |
| Climate News |
| How to cover Climate Change News |
| News of the World |
| News of the Riche because they are linked to climate change and other global messes |
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Whales as a transaction
The authors suggest compensation for not killing whales. I would also suggest penalties for killing whales. |
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.