Category Archives: Climate Change

Climategate Retracted

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Yaacov

It may be four months late, but at least one UK newspaper has finally published a lengthy retraction of stories it published in February claiming that the IPCC had made “bogus” claims about the effects of climate change on the … Continue reading →

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Preston Manning on Climate Change

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Yaacov

There’s a great blog tracking the lead up to the Copenhagen conference on climate change from a Canadian perspective. Written by sustainability activists Rebecca McNeil and Darcy Higgins, it addresses the political and social issues, as well as the urgency … Continue reading →

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Religion and Climate Change

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Yaacov

Back in May I wrote a piece called Why We Need More Churches about how religious communities provide social support and help in organizing for social and environmental justice. Now a former UK chief government scientist is making the same … Continue reading →

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Forget Shorter Showers

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Yaacov

So you recycle, you turn the lights off when you leave the room, you compost, you don’t idle your car and you take shorter showers. If everyone follows your example, would that fix the environmental problems of the world? Derrick … Continue reading →

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Where Does Energy Come From?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Yaacov

As the wisdom of burning fossil fuels fall further into doubt and many grope for a replacement source of energy, it recently occurred to me that a good question is “Where does our energy come from?” No, really. It might … Continue reading →

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