The PM said additional national interest projects will be announced in the coming weeks. This has us thinking about projects that prepare Canada for the future, not set us further apart. What national projects would you like to see funded in Canada?

NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59

"reading the room properly"? In terms of public opinion, perhaps. In terms of the planet being on fire, no, he did not read anything 'properly'. The current moment absolutely does demand a full court press, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong.

"There’s a battle underway to win the energy export market between the world’s two largest economies: The US wants the world to buy its fossil fuels, while China wants to sell the world its clean energy technologies. For now, there is a clear winner: China." - Akshat Rathi

And here is the percentage of the world's land area setting a new all-time monthly maximum temperature record in each decade:

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

...very warm out there, with some humidity (Td's in the ~mid-teens average) thought I'd produce a Humidex chart/analysis with 3PM EDT data...cause it's October😅 (average Humidex ~30-33 C) fits the light yellow shading area...not bad. (numbers are actual temps)

We have a dozen tiny garden gnomes in a garden along the sidewalk. Toddlers often squeal and sometimes play with them. Today a cool-looking ~30yr-old dude stopped, knelt down, and carefully rearranged them into a little party on a stump, then continued on his way smoking a cigar. Happy Saturday all!

My estimates of how much Norway's CO₂ emissions have been reduced as a result of EVs, PHEVs, and biofuels. robbieandrew.github.io/EV/

Any Ontario minister in Doug Ford’s government could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there. Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:

Normally I post about the marmots, but this time I’d like to take a moment and some photos of the people who do the on-the-ground recovery work to recover this species. We work where the marmots live: remote, high elevation. Photo Heather Heim

Ontario's proposed criteria for Special Economic Zones leave powers dangerously unchecked environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/03/o... #onpoli

First Nations asked the Doug Ford gov't for oversight measures over special economic zones (law-free areas for trusted proponents & designated projects). They asked for a public registry, an appeals process on cabinet decisions and time limits. The government said no thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

"Any proposal to ram a new oil pipeline through to B.C.'s North Coast is a direct assault on the inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights of the First Nations who steward these lands and waters." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_oppose...

Trump. The UN. Climate Change. Ugh. youtu.be/lEEwAcQ-zpU

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023. @tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social rdcu.be/eI4J3

the more i think about this, the more angry i am about it. danielle smith is basically hoping to burn $14 million in exchange for gutting environmental rules, and it’s hard to believe carney won’t let her get away with it.

Had a good chat with @johannawagstaffe.bsky.social about China pledging to reduce emissions, for the first time youtu.be/M3ps0P7uyic?...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

I’ve reported on the Doug Ford gov’t’s environmental record for 7 years and I remain concerned that Ontario’s only climate plan is a 2018 draft the auditor says isn’t evidence-based — and the gov’t now admits it won’t release a new plan or set stronger emissions-reduction targets

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

Premier, Prime Minister Discuss Next Steps for Wind West news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/10/0...

10 years ago, PM Mark Carney delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech, warning that our financial systems were underprepared for what was to come. 10 years later, very little has changed.  If only someone who understood the financial risks of feeding the climate crisis were in power 👀

Ten years ago tomorrow: www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2015/...

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Great sunset at Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon tonight.

At the UN Climate Summit today, many of Canada's allies will reaffirm & strengthen their commitment to climate action—but PM Carney will be notably absent. Amid increasing uncertainty over this government's climate approach, we need to know: is Canada in, or out? shorturl.at/z5zFz

The US president repeated factually inaccurate claims about climate change and the energy transition in his speech to the UN yesterday. This article does a good job of debunking them. 👇🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ma...

If he knew better, he would do better. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and 1930s they said, ‘Global cooling will kill the world,’” Trump said. “Then they said ‘global warming will kill the world.’ But then it started getting cooler … It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” 🤷🏻‍♂️

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay! www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’ Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.

Unbelievable that our national broadcaster posts a video of Trump's climate disinformation gish gallop - in addition to an article that repeats part of it. With no fact checking.

The 2025 UN Production Gap Report is out. Though most fossil fuel producers profess commitment to reduce their emissions, ultimately to net zero, exporters are undermining that effort with production plans that oversupply expected global demand. And it's gotten worse. 🧵 productiongap.org/2025report/

🧵1/3 💥 Probably the most important table you will see this month: The #ProductionGapReport is out and shows which governments still plan ~120% more #fossilfuel production by 2030 than under a 1.5°C #climate pathway, up from 110% in 2023. productiongap.org/2025report/

This graph by @leraffl.bsky.social tells quite the story. A near term rise in PHEV (peaking in 2027) and a sustained rise in BEV has Chinese ICE sales projected to go to near zero (~3%) by 2030.

The fossil gas industry is getting $4 billion in handouts from Canadian govts For Carney, who is prioritizing LNG Canada, "national interest" = benefitting fossil CEOs at the expense of the Canadian public

... This lack of progress in 2024 is concerning given the significant setbacks in policy, at both the federal and provincial level, since that year. ... 440megatonnes.ca/insight/cana...

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

A decade of change. In 2014, less than 4% of the world's electricity came from solar and wind. In 2024, this was 15%. Here's how the distribution across countries has changed (+ shifted upwards) over those 10 years. Data from @ember-energy.org

I helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

For those thinking it could never happen here, may I refer you to the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns, the UCP offer of $10M to fund oil company lawsuits against climate advocates, and (of course) the ill-fated Energy War Room www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Under the UNFCC Canada is not responsible for the downstream combustion emissions of the fossil fuels we export. So we conveniently ignore them (as in Ksi Lisims Assessment and BC and fed announcements today), though those GHGs are more than Canada's territorial emissions to the global atmosphere.