Last Friday I visited my MPP, Dave Smith with only one question. “Why do you think that putting a price on carbon will not work”. We talked about a few other things during our meeting, but I came back to this question four times. His response every time was fundamentally that the Canadian program is … Read more
Yesterday Andrew Scheer made public the platform of the Federal Conservative Party on climate change. This platform is all about the really big emitters . . . and “green technology”. There is nothing in the platform to encourage individual Canadians to contribute to limiting Canada’s emissions. Scheer claimed that the platform promotes “green technology, not … Read more
After winning the 2018 election, the Ontario Conservative Party acted quickly in setting aside climate change legislation and mitigation measures. To make sure that voters got its message, the Conservative Government eliminated the words “climate change” from the title of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change – re-naming it as the … 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
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
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
In 1977 ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded fossil fuel company (Exxon) asked its in-house scientists to study the impacts of the fossil fuel industry on climate change. They reported that greenhouse gas emissions from the production and consumption of fossil fuels had been and would continue to be the principal contributor to climate change. Eleven years … Read more
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