All the pre-election polls forecast a close race, but none projected that Scott Morrison and the Liberal coalition would form the next Government of Australia. So what factor(s) made the difference? And how might similar factor(s) influence the outcome of the forthcoming Canadian election. In his victory speech, Morrison referred to “the quiet Australians” who … Read more
Many years ago (January 2011) we referred to “Political Change for a Climate in Crisis”, an introduction to our first Public Forum on climate change. In a later blog we noted that A World Public Health Crisis is coming! Shortly thereafter we referred to the theme of a book “The Great Disruption”: Why the Climate … Read more
Australians go to the polls on Saturday, May 18 next to elect members of the 46th Federal Parliament. This has been dubbed the climate change election with good reason: concern about the climate and environment has never been greater among Australians. Over the last twenty years, Australian elections have seen on-and-off enthusiasm for parties who … Read more
Seven years ago this May, 4RG sponsored a panel review of the risks and consequences of Global Warming. One of the panelists was Glenn McGillvray, Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR). He predicted that a changing climate would bring more severe weather resulting in an increase in the frequency and destructiveness of … Read more
Last Friday the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal determined that the Federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was constitutionally valid. Among other things, this Act established minimum standards for pricing carbon across Canada. All judges agreed that climate change caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases is one of the great existential issues of our times. Climate change … Read more
From its establishment in 2006, For Our Grandchildren has encouraged grandparents to support efforts to combat climate change. We have stressed the need to avoid the possible outcome of inaction – a hostile planet that our grandchildren – and many more generations of grandchildren- must overcome before they can live without the risks of mass … Read more
For over a decade, For Our Grandchildren has campaigned for a limit on greenhouse gas emissions – the principal reason for increases in the world’s average temperature, the acidity of the oceans and rising water levels, climate disruption that has produced new extremes in storms, drought and floods, food shortages . . Even Richard Attenborough, … Read more