If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]

Great conversation! Most interesting is @maxfawcett.bsky.social's advice for Carney: try to advance a TMX expansion and get barrels pledged to that, thus eliminating barrels available for any new #pipeline. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #MOU www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXqH...

New piece on the ties between global heating, wildlfires (smoke!), human health (increased deathrate!), and what to do about it politically, in Canada at least: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBwa...

In today's (October 4) Globe and Mail (Canada's "National Newspaper"): Never give up! www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...

Interview w/energy economist @edhirs, @UHouston. Tariffs, uncertainty, political chaos - it's a funny way to exert "energy dominance." #ABleg #ABpoli #canada youtu.be/wzYY-E7torM

With pretty much every other participant at the forthcoming productivity summit avoiding the issue, it’s been left to the Productivity Commission to draw attention to one of Australia’s biggest, most obvious, and easily fixable productivity solutions: A CARBON PRICE. The intersection 1/... #auspol

Australia, we need to talk about carbon pricing Analysis by Grattan Institute energy and climate change policy expert Alison Reeve in today’s Financial Review #auspol #electricity grattan.edu.au/news/austral...

Commercial Heat Pumps Work in Europe, Asia. What’s Canada Waiting For? The global economy is electrifying, but Canada is being pressured by @ABDanielleSmith and oil/gas industry to remain stuck in 20th century. Do we want to be competitive or not? youtu.be/3IrseduUWHM

Why You Can Trust Energi Media About Energy Change in Canada We're not experts, but we have expertise and we bring a unique approach to energy journalism: we report on global energy change and trends, then apply that info to Canada. #cdnpoli #ableg youtu.be/V8FoL87_w4w

An excellent account to follow for information on Canada's energy sector. Check out Mr. Hislop's YouTube channel, too.

Obsession with oil supply, ignores importance of demand Viewer from Calgary took me to task because, well, the usual Alberta complaints. So, I replied. Nicely, of course.😉 #ABleg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/bhkHknae6TA

"Ultimately, the choice is clear: we can either accept a future with increasingly severe and costly weather events or we can implement solutions at modest (or zero) cost. The rational decision seems obvious." -- Texas A&M climate scientist @andrewdessler.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/update-on-...

How renewables save Texans enormous amounts of money. The buildout of solar in TX reduced the wholesale price of energy by 50%. #energysky open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI

.@MarkJCarney's national power grid: Expert explains what's needed Prof Madeleine McPherson, @uvic, just returned from a year-long tour of Australia, S Korea, etc studying how they created national grids. Great insights. More to come. #canada youtu.be/to2PDQZko5Q

Tomorrow! Get your stripes here 

Like natives across the globe, someone may privatize YOUR life long commitment to preserve for THEIR Carbon Credits. This allows them to continue to produce the same amount of pollution while you lose your land. Not making this up. Carbon credit is a business thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...

Thinking of my Dad on Father's Day. He couldn't change a light bulb. Never watched a hockey game. But he loved ideas, parties and was the best dancer we knew. Here's my latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

Concerned about the damaging impacts of rising GHG emissions on our economy & life savings? This paper explains why pensions & other asset owners have a fiduciary duty toward workers, retirees & other beneficiaries to mitigate these impacts by driving down emissions.

Ocean acidification emerges from the rolling horror that is the climate disaster, to confront readers with more detail of system-wide collapse. It's been measured throughout the oceans. Our beautiful blue planet 😢 #climaterisk

A lesson (and not a good one) on how to socialize costs for the Canadian oil industry while simultaneously privatizing (very high!) profits. What is wrong with us? Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/10/a...

What Moran reported was demonstrable fact. Indisputable fact. Yet they suspend him. This is the advantage that Trump and his ilk have. They are so beyond the moral pale, so beyond normality, that it is considered impolite, impolitic, or intemperate to describe them as they are.

“U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse summed it up well last June when he said, “This isn’t complicated: Climate risk makes things uninsurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.””

Here is a paywall free version of John Vaillant’s opinion piece in The Star I hope @mark-carney.bsky.social is reading this also!!! LETS GOOOOOOO archive.ph/2025.06.05-1...

If the future is electric, China is building a big advantage quickly.

Nothing "wrong" here (although the prescriptions are pretty messy) but it doesn't mention the obvious solution we've always known about - a carbon tax where the bottom half (roughly) of the distribution is compensated or over-compensated a la 2010. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"OCEAN", with David Attenborough. His point is that if we fail to protect 30% of the seas from overfishing we'll lose both fisheries and fishers, and erase about half of all protein consumed by humans. There's much more in this extraordinary film. PLEASE GO TO THE CINEMA, WATCH IT, AND SPEAK OUT.

"OCEAN", with David Attenborough. Natural beauty set against heart-shattering footage of destruction caused by bottom trawlers. Showing NOW across North Am, prior to the UN Ocean Conf in Nice in June, where the world MUST agree to set aside 30% of the ocean to save all fisheries. PLEASE GO SEE IT!

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza.

Carbon pricing done in a smart way is very badly needed. A conservative gov’t did it in British Columbia in 2008, and established a ‘template for the world’. I detail the why and how, history and politics in my book, “The Carbon Tax Question”, to be released to USA bookstores on April 15, 2025.

Canada’s Consumer Fuel Charge, or revenue-neutral carbon tax was based on British Columbia’s very successful revenue-neutral tax that ran from 2008 to 2013, as fully described in my recent book: “The Carbon Tax Question”. I hope it’s on PM Carney’s desk! It’s not too late to reverse a bad decision!

Machiavelli, Poilievre, and the Liberal Leadership Race: For Canadians: A Victoria Times-Colonist commentary on axing Canada's carbon tax, and an exhortation to our next Prime Minister to stay the course: keep our revenue-neutral, world-beating carbon tax! pressreader.com/article/2817...

You may run into people who say that renewable energy is expensive. Here is an explanation of why that's not the case and how it actually saves the economy money. www.theclimatebrink....

Andrew Dessler has a great piece out today. Canadians should consider it carefully. Alberta & Saskatchewan residents should pay LESS for electricity if they incorporate more renewables, like Texas. Our revenue neutral carbon tax accelerates that transition. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/an-explana...

Insightful piece by Chris Hatch that links ignorance of climate science (Trump, Poilievre et al.), extraordinary climatic extremes (Amazon drought, LA wildfires, 2024 as the hottest year) political reality (who WON'T axe the tax?), and profit (drill, baby, drill): mailchi.mp/nationalobse...

An open letter to Canada's Conservative Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, who vows he'll axe Canada's well designed, revenue-neutral (almost) carbon tax, should he become Prime Minister. Mr. Poilievre is no student of climate science. That shows. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ja...

SHAMELESS PLUG: For a full analysis of how Canada's revenue-neutral carbon pricing system works (based on BC's success in the 2008-2013 years), see my book (maybe in the local library?), published recently by Harbour Publishing:

Boils down to; Liberal Party @liberal.ca.web.brid.gy carbon pricing climate policy (a policy endorsed by Nobel Economic Prize winners by the way) is where big polluters pay Canadian taxpayers back via rebates. Pierre Poilievre's 'axe the tax' makes Canadian taxpayers pay the big polluters, instead.

The thing is, carbon pricing is SUPPOSED to make you want to burn less carbon. The whole point is to discourage its use. So, while it's always great when PP is outed as the creepy liar he is, we really should be complaining when burning the planet goes up in price.

In today’s National Observer, a report on a new analysis of the impact of Canadian carbon pricing on inflation. Please google the report—it’s important!: Carbon pricing has only a 'tiny' impact on inflation: economists By Natasha Bulowski News Politics Ottawa Insider December 12th 2024

An excellent report on the financial penalty that most Americans are now paying as a result of the national and international failure to put an effective revenue neutral tax on carbon emissions (and we Canadians are getting hit financially too!): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When one of the richest societies in the world refuses to tax carbon emissions, it contributes to astonishly high home insurance costs. It’s long past time to wake up! Here’s a stunning example: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024....

It took over a decade of hard work by many people to build Liberal credibility on climate and the environment in Canada. It’ll take a fraction of that time to light it on 🔥. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/30/n... Another smart piece of reporting that showcases why the health of Alberta’s long term economic future is threatened by the short-term transactional actions of Premier Smith, a leader whose vision is blinkered by oil-patch patches over both eyes.

History teaches us that dictators like Hitler and Stalin attacked the press to crush democracy. Poilievre’s attack on the CBC, echoing Trump’s rhetoric, follows this dangerous playbook—and it should raise serious alarm bells. #cdnpoli reportnorth.blogspot.com/2024/12/poil...

Cons are screaming that PMJT has put a cap on O&G. Don't listen to this lie. There is NO cap on oil production. There is a cap on emissions. They want oil companies to invest in technology that reduces their emissions WITHOUT cutting production. We literally have record high oil production! #CDNpoli

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 visited the President -Elect Donald Trump in the US. It's sad and disgusting that so many Canadians on SM hoped that the meeting went bad. That Trump "owned" Trudeau. Shameful how many Canadians are not patriotic and do not support our country. #cdnpoli #peipoli

I want to share to folks, speech by Australia's first woman PM Julia Gillard, decade ago. This speech outlays RW TOXIC Male Misogyny in Politics, poor treatment of our PM of the time, by Male counterparts. Plse take the time to watch this Land Mark SPEECH. It resonates.. youtu.be/fCNuPcf8L00?...

But coal as an idea — big, tough men (approaching Trump with tears in their eyes) has outlasted coal as a reality. West Virginia thinks it's a coal state, when in reality it's mostly a health care state (supported by Medicare and Medicaid, which the people it votes for want to cut) 4/