Keith McNeill

Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.

It “seems obvious that the public deserves an explanation of why the Crown settled Montem’s claims in the amount of $95 million as opposed to a cost-based claim for $15 million.”
– Nigel Bankes, resource lawyer
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis

“The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction."
– Dr Marina Romanello, University College London
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Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard In a single day, Melissa exploded from a moderate storm into a major hurricane with 170mph winds.

In the case of Melissa, the fingerprints of climate change are visible on many of the factors that made it such a devastating storm
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‘Storm of the century’: record-breaking Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica and heads for Cuba Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families were trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica

Climate scientists have said the intensification of Hurricane Melissa is probably a symptom of the rapid heating of the world’s oceans, part of the human-driven climate crisis
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How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

“With the [prevention plan] and climate change, Miquelon was dead. It would have disappeared. I want to give my village a future.”
– Franck Detcheverry, mayor of Miquelon
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Landmark New Report Shows Canadian Lobbyists Represent Major Polluters Alongside Environmental Groups In a major conflict of interest, FMinus study shows nation’s climate action taking a back seat to Big Oil’s lobbying playbook.

Canada’s Lobbyists’ Code previously dictated that “lobbyists shall not represent conflicting or competing interests without the informed consent of those whose interests are involved.” That provision was stripped out in 2023
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Wind Power Cut UK Energy Bills by £100bn: UCL Study Discover how wind power slashed UK energy bills by £104.3bn from 2010 to 2023, challenging the idea that sustainability and affordability are in conflict.

“The simplistic assessment that the wind industry is a drag on the UK economy is deeply mistaken."
– Colm O’Shea, University College London
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Hurricane Melissa Is the Third Category 5 Storm This Year—That’s Only Happened Once Before This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season

In a changing climate, hurricanes are also becoming stronger overall—one study found that climate change amplified the winds of every hurricane in 2024
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World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

“We have a serious need for more speed and for helping countries take stronger climate actions. That acceleration must start now.”
– Simon Stiell, the UN’s top climate official
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Australia’s tropical forests now emit CO₂, clouding the COP30 talks These tropical forest CO₂ emissions may warn of similar shifts in other regions, a key topic for COP30 climate talks in Brazil.

“Our finding stresses … that ambitious actions should be taken to slow down climate change, including in relation to protecting tropical forests."
– David Bauman, study coauthor
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The Yangtze River Is Becoming the World’s Largest Electrified Trade Corridor - CleanTechnica The Yangtze corridor is emerging as the world’s largest clean-energy trade route, powered by HVDC, solar, and battery-electric vessels.

The Yangtze experiment sits within a clear global trend. Inland and short-sea shipping will be electrified almost completely by mid-century, while deep-sea vessels transition more slowly
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Artificial intelligence could dramatically improve weather forecasting An AI-based model outperformed every other in forecasting the Indian monsoon this year. This helped millions of farmers.

AI-based models could deliver low-cost, more accurate forecasts for farmers and forecast disaster events further in advance. That will save and improve lives, especially in a changing climate
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Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world's weather systems it's getting harder and more important to get right.

Researchers say Southern California's deadly fires were twice as likely and 25 times larger, in terms of burned area, than they would have been in a world with no human-caused global warming
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Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts - Inside Climate News Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for dam...

"No industry should be above the law."
– Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity
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‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

"The problem is that Ofcom is now allowing some TV and radio stations to flout the rules and on an issue like climate change the stakes could not be higher.”
– Richard Wilson, Reliable Media
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Will COP30 Finally Prioritize Indigenous Voices? - Inside Climate News Indigenous and community leaders see the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the heart of the Amazon Basin as an unprecedented opportunity to infuse global climate ambitions with justice and inclusiveness.

“Listen to the youth, learn from the elders and act for the future generations to come.”
– Sabba Maharjan, a young Newar activist from Nepal
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Japan’s Mount Fuji gets first snowcap of winter – three weeks later than usual Light white dusting appears after temperatures near peak drop below freezing

This year’s initial dusting comes earlier than last year’s record-late 7 November, the latest date recorded in 130 years of observation
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Marine heatwave over Pacific Ocean could lead to flooding in north-west Severe ‘blob’ or marine heatwave can lead to increased inundation and wintery weather in eastern North America

“The impacts on various marine species, on phytoplankton, which drive a lot of the food web, are quite important.”
– Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth
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The speakers were all good, but the best presentation was by Dr. Paul Kershaw of Generation Squeeze, which starts at 26:00. He says to ask deniers, "Why are you willing to betray our children?"

YouTube video by Citizens' Climate Lobby Canada Carbon Pricing Panel People's Ministry of the Future Day !

I'm just back home in Clearwater after attending Citizens Climate Lobby-Canada's 2025 conference, "The People's Ministry of the Future." Here are some highlights from the first day, Sunday, October 19. The main message: "Be a Good Ancestor."
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Super-warming methane gas is being tackled too slowly, UN says ahead of COP30 COPENHAGEN - Almost 90% of satellite-detected methane leaks flagged to governments and oil and gas companies are not being acknowledged, the UN said Wednesday ahead of the COP30 climate talks next mon...

Scientists consider cutting methane emissions to be the fastest way to tackle climate change in the near term
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

“Three specimens of Culiseta annulata were found in Kiðafell, Kjós, two females and one male."
– Matthías Alfreðsson, Natural Science Institute of Iceland
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UN pushes for worldwide disaster alerts as extreme weather ‘spirals’ Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.

"Our goal is to not only warn the world; it is to empower it.”
– Celeste Saulo, WMO secretary-general
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McKinsey’s Global Energy Perspective 2025 Warns of Slower Transition Despite Renewables Growth McKinsey & Company’s Global Energy Perspective 2025 finds the world drifting toward a slower energy transition across all modeled scenarios

“The journey toward decarbonization remains long, but there is still considerable opportunity for energy stakeholders to act now and get back on track.”
– Humayun Tai, McKinsey & Company
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Is greenhushing the new greenwashing? Or something else entirely Companies used to be accused of faking sustainability via greenwashing. Now some are hiding actual climate progress.

When companies that greenhush were surveyed about their motives, a common answer was that they didn’t want to be accused of greenwashing
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How unprecedented is power demand growth in the United States? Electricity generation is expected to rise. But will it grow much faster than it did in the past?

In the 1950s and 1960s, US electricity generation was growing at more than 5% in most years, and often hitting close to (or over) 10%
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This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change. In an interview, she talks abo...

"I don’t want people to walk away thinking that [solving climate change is] easy or it’s inevitable. We still have a ton of work to do."
– Hannah Ritchie, Oxford University
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As Planet Burns, US Banking Agencies Ditch Climate Risk Rules | Common Dreams Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently warned that due to climate disasters, "there will be regions of the country where you can’t get a mortgage, there won’t be ATMs, banks won’t have branches....

“Powell has admitted that the Federal Reserve has done the ‘bare minimum’ on climate. Now it will do even less, putting the banks it supervises and the broader financial system at risk.”
– Elyse Schupak, Public Citizen
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Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics

“Yet again, powerful fossil fuel states are successfully blocking global efforts to cooperate on climate change."
– Dr Simon Bullock, Tyndall Centre
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Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica - Inside Climate News Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

“We thought it was just going to take ages for any kind of climate impacts to be seen in Antarctica. And that’s really not true."
– Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute
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