Brett Favaro

The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions | CNN Fossil fuel production is still increasing and the United States is in climate denial mode. But, globally, the use of renewable energy is on the rise — and several countries are shifting to solar fast...

Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...

Results of the McGill Athletics and Recreation Sports Program Review - McGill University Athletics After an extensive internal and external review of our operations, we have made the difficult decision to reduce the number of competitive sport clubs and varsity

mcgillathletics.ca/news/2025/11...

I wonder if people have considered that the contraction of the post-secondary sector will, indirectly, also lead to a decline in our competitiveness in nternational sports?

We like to mock how expensive varsity sports are, but you don't get medals without them

Feels like this is a response to...

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Google scholar search is failing me - does anyone remember a paper from the last few years (which probably means the last 5+?) that modelled outcomes of "defensive" anti decarbonization strategies vs decarb strategies for oil producing regions?

lol I could make a subset of people so angry with a relatively small number of words right now.

No. I won't do it. I'm disciplined

A lot of people don't realize the extent to which the academic process relies on trust. This is why those "sting" operations often work - peer review is good at debating the merits of a given process, analysis, etc. It's not robust to outright liars

AI is particularly well suited to exploiting this

This looks like something from Expedition 33

A big wooden cabinet in a Safeway

Close up of two post it notes that say DO NOT OPEN

You know what this makes me want to do...

But how far would it even kick it? It couldn't be much

I'm glad he's decided this but I'm puzzled by the issue itself. How would razing a tiny remnant of forest somehow save a mill?

BC Library Association (@bcla.bsky.social) BCLA is the professional association for library workers and libraries from all library sectors in British Columbia. bclaconnect.ca

The BC Library Assoc @bcla.bsky.social and the BC Libraries Co-op @bc.libraries.coop and their public library colleagues have been nattering at the BC govt for years about increasing the grant and while each minister responsible for public libraries has been supportive, add’l $ have been scarce.

What!? That's ALL?

Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.

Another good reason to switch your heating to a heat pump just as soon as you possibly can.

If they made an electric Fit it would be game over

Personal update -- I resigned from my role at Co-Chair of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body. The job had been a true honour and privilege, one of the highlights of my professional life. If you're interested in more of an explanation, see my Linked-In page.

What's with the whimsical piano music

New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals

neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

So they're really going to invade Venezuela? And this isn't triggering wall-to-wall crisis coverage?

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

they can pump out the headlines when elon says there will be a new car he’ll never actually deliver or a mission to mars that never comes. less so when he consistently posts the most vile nazi views imaginable.

OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.

Interesting

What you don't like that idea? Why do you hate public safety.

Vancouver, Surrey mayoral hopefuls make public safety promises While the municipal election is still 10 months away, some Metro Vancouver mayoral contenders are already offering campaign plans and promises.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Since we are having a "who can spend more money on police" contest I have a modest proposal

Let's make EVERYONE IN SURREY a police officer. Boom, poverty solved.

Checkmate libs

HOT TAKE: Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) There are many takes on the big Carney-Smith energy agreement – we thought you could use one more. The new Canada–Alberta MOU unveiled last Thursday is already generating more chatter than a pipeline...

You were just thinking - you know what we need? one more hot take on the Canada Alberta climate and energy hot take. Well we at @energyvsclimate.bsky.social have got you covered with a quick run down, and at the end some bonus takes from the EvC community www.energyvsclimate.com/hot-take-can...

Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.

Why is the media consistently saying "energy," when they actually mean "oil and gas"?
"Alberta energy deal" rather than "Alberta oil and gas deal" etc.
This is obfuscation.
It serves to present these agreements as beneficial to all, rather than specifically beneficial to the oil and gas industry.

Never fails

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

This is a shame. We need to have our eyes open to changing patterns of climate risk…

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.

I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”

For example…

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...