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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Oil and gas subsidies in Canada, explained | The Narwhal Oil and gas subsidies in Canada amount to billions each year, including loans, tax breaks and other incentives

This story deserves much broader readership. The Canadian oil and gas industry gets massive subsidies from governments. And Danielle Smith wants to give them billions more by paying to clean up jettisoned wells.

What we know about fossil fuel subsidies in Canada: thenarwhal.ca/oil-and-gas-...

Northern Ontario First Nations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire Communities along the Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project — and finding evidence of ancestral burial grounds

Northern Ontario #FirstNations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire.

Communities along the #Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project.

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

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#onpoli #RingOfFire #mining

Low water in Rapids. Nova Scotia

This was the upper Pleasant River last week. No flow in any of the rapids between stillwaters

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

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The ban on uranium exploration and mining is safe – for now - Halifax Examiner After yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Nova Scotia’s Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act seems to be safe. At least for now. The ...

If anyone (besides NS Premier Houston and natural resources minister Rushton) is inclined to believe NS Mining Association Sean Kirby’s arguments for ending the ban on uranium mining in N.S., here is info from DNR experts back in 2019, refuting all Kirby’s BS: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/natu...

Ontario’s black bear problem is about people | The Narwhal Climate change and urban sprawl are blurring the lines between Ontario’s black bear country and our front yards

Climate change and urban sprawl are blurring the lines between bear country and our front yards. Does Ontario have a problem with black bears — or people? thenarwhal.ca/ontario-blac...

Imagine the feeling of going back into work knowing that the super annoying, uncooperative and loud bully who failed upward and was a drain on your mental health... just disappeared overnight and won't be coming back into work. How a lot of incumbent MPs feel today I would bet.

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to stop the economy from collapsing

'We need to get wealth back into the hands of working families. That means taxing working people less and rich people more. Tax wealth, not work. Protect ordinary families. Make it common sense'...
Class solidarity, less wealth inequality.

I really resent that everything I hold dear is being destroyed by this level of stupidity.

YouTube video by Garys Economics Will the rich leave the UK?

A clear well laid out explanation of why 'you can't tax the rich or they will leave' is bullshit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luob...

An easy to work through free course! Learn about the abilities and limits of Large Language Models (so called-A.I)

What Canadian nationalism? We long ago sold off Canadian cultural production, leaving nationalism nothing from which to draw on.

I've been unsatistifed with the takes I've read on Canadian nationalism lately. Its something I think an awful lot about, so I wrote seven short essays on culture, identity and how there can be no nationalism with out a national project.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/what-canad...

class solidarity would fix all this nonsense

I envision he's like a slow witted George Castanza trying to come up with gold like Jerk Store..."no Justin.. the carbon store called and they're out of you"

Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…

For @truthout.org I looked at Justin Trudeau's legacy and how the only thing that was left wing about him was vibes.

truthout.org/articles/tru...

Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.

Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Trump has promised to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Experts warn that such a move could trigger a renaissance for militant extremists, sending them an unprecedented message of support — and making it all the more urgent to understand them.

Skip Your Last Drink and Reboot Your Health | The Tyee A new tool tracks the real-time benefits of cutting back on alcohol.

What if you knew how many minutes of life you could potentially regain by skipping that last drink, or how your weekly alcohol intake measures up compared with smoking cigarettes? 🍷

The typical Fortune 500 CEO had already made more money by January 2nd than the average US worker will make this entire year.

YouTube video by Áras an Uachtaráin Christmas Message from President Michael D. Higgins 2024

A Christmas message from the president of Ireland.
We all should watch this and fully take to heart all of the moral imperatives presented. Clear and concise.
youtu.be/uMn1uOhnkA8?...

Living in small towns almost exclusively this rings very true. If in any of the past resource booms they had made industry pay into a community fund they could be living off of that. The money, the talent and the people all leave. The cemeteries are full of names of families no longer there.

I said a lot of these points to my NDP candidate in my driveway in the recent NS election. It went right over their head and then they pondered if improved roads have caused people to drive further to do their shopping...no acknowledgement of the systematic degredation and inequality.

A nature reserve sign has a corporate sponsorship.

Conservation...brought to you by...

The sun rises over frost covered bog vegetation.

Frosty morning fen, looking for lichens.

Caledonia Christmas Bird Count 2024

YouTube video by EVNautilus Meet the Huge “Sea Elephant” Heteropod in Palau’s Ocean | Nautilus Live

Some amazing videos on this Youtube and Tik Tok channel from the Ocean Exploration Trust

The truth is coming out on the carbon tax The truth is no match for an honestly told lie. Witness the disconnect between what we know about the carbon tax in Canada and the way it’s perceived by large swathes of the public.

www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/27/o...