Silently hoping that @doctorow.pluralistic.net will apply the enshitification theory to WorkDay, the omnipresent finance and HR management tool that every user wants to launch into the sun.
For sure, I hear you. Sometimes that's all we can do, right? There are lots of reasons to cry right now. Just make sure you get up afterwards.
I hear you, but don't share the existential dread. People today, especially my generation and that after me, have the opportunity to influence the future of the planet in a way that has never happened before in history. I find that inspiring... it's why I talk so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_M...
At the end of an excellent NY Times column about solidarity in Minneapolis is this passage, which speaks to why I dislike calling climate change an environmental issue. It is dynamically more like a global systemic issue than it is other environmental issues.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...
The meandering narrowness of atmospheric rivers makes it seem personal, like the atmosphere is going out of its way to target your neighbourhood.
There was a political dust up in a parliamentary committee yesterday about whether I should be asked to testify. Of course, no one involved actually contacted me. I heard about it this morning while making tea. And I told the Canadian press what I thought:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...
That is the question. Climate policy is about preparing for the future. This is what myself and colleagues have been trying to warn the Canadian government about for a long time now.
The EU has adopted a climate target of 90% reduction in emissions below 1990 levels by 2040. For context, that target in Canada that would mean dropping emissions to 61 Mt, less than one third of the emissions from the country's oil and gas sector today.
Doomism can be an obstacle to adaptation, not just cutting emissions. Here, a group of us who have worked in small islands states argue that focusing on habitability - what you want to keep and improve, not what you will lose - boosts adaptation efforts.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Pathways Alliance, the oil sands group that blanketed Canada with "we're going to net-zero" ads, now pretends it was formed only to "advance a CO2 emissions strategy and a proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) project" (oilsandsalliance.ca/who-we-are/o...). Here's what web site used to say:
The drop in the price battery storage is incredible, joining onshore wind and solar as now cheaper than coal, on average globally. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Speaking of heatwaves, this new paper from UBC colleagues analyses a curious aspect of the deadly 2021 heat dome: the timing. It happened near the June solstice, rather than in mid-summer, and the longer daylength contributed to its severity. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
I appreciated playing a tiny part in this great @picscanada.bsky.social explainer video on how extreme weather affects critical infrastructure, and what we can do. It draws on the experience with heat waves, wildfires, and atmospheric river flooding in B.C. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJ...
If the economy is so dependent on oil that it requires a war in the Middle East or some other devastating exogenous event to buoy oil prices and come closer to balancing budgets, maybe we're not making the best decisions.
I think you misspelled Bush and Iraq.
One of the biggest obstacles to climate action is "second order" bias: we tend to mistakenly assume other people aren't interested in the subject. From a CBC Kids show:
Hope is form of climate action. I recorded this message for the CBC Kids show "Hope or Nope":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WH...
This is the best movie we have seen in quite some time. Hilarious, gonzo, oddly touching in moments. It hits even harder if you are from Toronto, it's like an accidental love letter to the city. Fellow Canadians, please go support local cinema... www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2K9...
That's not the fault of the modellers at the govt or other orgs. It is legitimately difficult work. And if policies aren't sufficiently detailed, you have to make assumptions. Say there is a target, but no policy mechanisms as of yet... you may need to assume the target is met.
Further confirmation that Canada's far off track from its 2030 target. As I mention here, the models tend to overestimate the impact of climate policies, because they represent an idealized world in which policies are fully implemented and work as intended.
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
“I think the climate scientists and activists of my generation have done a great disservice to the next generation because we have scared the crap out of them...”
@simondonner.bsky.social stresses the importance of hope when it comes to climate change
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Climate change blames individuals when it is big corporations at fault, say teens. @simondonner.bsky.social was one of the experts at the event. www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos... via @cbcnews.ca @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca
So glad to see the growing resistance to the unlawful and despicable behaviour of ICE... though melt the ice is a tough rallying cry if you are climate scientist. www.cbc.ca/news/world/r...
Years ago, when a severe storm closed the road to the family cottage, I drove down a distant dirt road I'd never been on, ditched the car, and navigating several miles through a forest and wetland back to the cottage, without a phone, GPS or map. Yet I can't seem to cancel an online subscription.
If you're interested in the implications of the Canada-China deal that cuts tariffs on some Chinese EVs, I recommend this episode of Shift Key heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
Record investment in clean energy last year. Electrified transport, renewable electricity generation and electricity grids accounted for 90% of investment, with transport up 20% despite all the talk in North America of things slowing down.
From: about.bnef.com/insights/fin...
Happy International Day of Clean Energy to all who are observant. www.un.org/en/observanc...
Yet more reason to trust projections that global oil demand will soon level off and decline
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
