New Report: Who Will Pay for the Costs and Damages of Climate Change?
Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages per year for their contribution to climate change caused by toxic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study publishedย Thursday. The study looked at five oil and gas companies currently trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange โ Encana, Suncor, Canadian Natural Resources, […]
Sacked Environment Secretary Attacks Climate Change Act
Sacked environment secretary Owen Paterson will, on Wednesday, demand his government scrap the world-leading Climate Change Act, during a speech before climate denial charity theย Global Warming Policy Foundationย (GWPF). Paterson (pictured) was removed from office by David Cameron amid speculation that his climate scepticism would prove hugely unpopular among voters during the 2015 general election, but […]
Statoil to Drill Canada's First Deepwater Offshore Oil Well After Bailing on Alberta's Tar Sands
Climate campaigners and tar sands blockaders widely celebrated the announcement last month that the Norwegian energy company Statoil was halting plans for a multi-billion dollar tar sands project in Alberta, Canada. The company cited rising costs of labor and materials in Alberta, and also blamed โlimited pipeline accessโ for โsqueezing away the Alberta margins a […]
Air Quality Concerns Raised By Albany Residents Living Along Oil-By-Rail Tracks
Residents of the Ezra Prentice apartments in Albany, N.Y., have been complaining about air quality issues ever since the oil trains showed up in the Port of Albany two yearsย ago. And recent testing by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has confirmed their fears. In 20 out of 21 air samples taken […]
Judith Curry is Back Advocating Climate Inaction in the Wall Street Journal
This is a guest post by Climate Nexus. Judith Curryโs latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal touts her new study co-authored with Nic Lewis. The takeaway of the piece – that the need for emissions reductions is โless urgentโ than policymakers assume โ is not even supported by her own study, much less the […]
A Shift from Fossil Fuels Could Provide $1.8 Trillion in Savings, Two New Reports Conclude
A worldwide transition to low carbon fuels could save the global economy as much as $1.8 trillion over the next two decades, according to two reports published Thursday by the Climate Policyย Initiative. By switching to renewable energy sources, the high costs associated with extracting and transporting coal and gas could be avoided, the reports, titled […]
Why Support DeSmog Canada? Here Are Six Reasons Itโs Totally Worth It
As many of our readers have already seen, DeSmog Canada recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign where we raised $50,000 from our generous supporters. Even though we’re on the other side of that fundraiser, we still rely on support from readers like you. That’s why we make it easy to contribute to DeSmog Canada at […]
How Free Market Thatcher First Called for Climate Action
In the third of three posts charting how climate change became a political issue, we see how Margaret Thatcher, the high priestess of the magical free markets, first took up Hansen’sย callโฆย Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister would be the first politician of global stature to address the increasingly urgent concerns about climateย change. Her speech […]
Reining In Global Warming Emissions Will Be Good For The Economy: Report
Not only will it lead to more costly and catastrophic events like wildfires, droughts, and floods, but delaying action on climate change will in and of itself consitute a missed opportunity to bolster the US economy, according to a new report. Entitled โSeeing Is Believing: Creating A New Climate Economy In The United States,โ the […]
James Hansen: 'I Thought There Would Be a Rational Response'
Scientists were warning about the dangers of climate change even before America discovered and used oil on an industrial scale. Here, in the second of three posts, we see how in the 1980s it appeared politicians would rise to the challenges itย presentsโฆ James Hansen was the first scientist to detect the current rise in global […]