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Game Is Rigged for Kinder Morgan, says Economist, Resigns Hearings
The Trans-Mountain Pipeline hearing is in the hands of a “captured regulator”, charges economist Robyn Allan Well, I have been away for a while, but apparently things over at the National Energy Board are proceeding as before, following a predictable Harper-ite agenda. And of course another intervenor walks away in disgust, unwilling to lend credence to a […]
Trans Mountain Pipeline Hearing Fraudulent, Charges Former Hydro CEO
November 4, 2014
Former BC Hydro executive withdraws from Trans Mountain Pipeline hearing in disgust. The following is an open letter from Marc Elieson, former CEO of BC Hydro, formally withdrawing from the National Energy Board hearings on the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Dear Ms. Young: The Intervenor, Marc Eliesen, wishes to withdraw from the […]
Will the Climate Deniers Finally Discover El Niño?
July 22, 2014
An El Niño event could seriously damage the denier narrative, unless… Remember 1998? That was a very good year, as Old Blue Eyes might have said. It could well be the best, most important year ever if you are a climate change denier. In 1998 world-wide surface temperatures got so high that it took at least […]
Climate Change and the Superstorm
December 8, 2013
What is a hurricane? It is a tremendous pot of energy, of whirling wind and rain. It gathers the energy over water, and expends it in wind, lightning and sometimes destruction. I’m going to try to give an explanation of the processes and specific conditions involved in building such a storm. First, let’s talk about […]
Climate Change Since the Industrial Revolution
November 24, 2013
Father Theo goes to climate school 7 Weather changes day-to-day, year-to-year, but beneath this noisy everyday record, climatologists have discovered clear trends in our modern climate. Temperatures have risen about 0.6o C in the last 50 years, and almost 1o in the past century. Most of the detected warming has occurred over land and in […]
The Ice Ages, Part 2
November 13, 2013
Father Theo goes to climate school 6. Continued from parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and particularly 5. According to what scientists now believe, the Ice Ages, which have come and gone for the last million years or so, were caused by the coupling of Milankovitch cycles with certain natural feedback loops. The Milankovitch cycles couldn’t […]
Equal Say for Aboriginal People on Everything Whatsoever
November 2, 2013
Why shouldn’t Aboriginal people get the same deal as climate deniers. Now I have a proposal about the media in British Columbia, and maybe all across Canada. It’s an equality thing. It’s a balance thing. You know the drill. I think the media should grant equal say between the Aboriginal people and the rest of […]
The Wolves Who Knew Where the Deer Were
October 27, 2013
One day there was born a wolf who knew where all the deer were. From the morning of his first hunt, he always knew which way to look to find the deer, and every time he hunted he brought one back. This gift he was able to grant to his children, and after twenty generations […]
The Ice Ages, Part 1: Milankovitch Cycles
October 23, 2013
Father Theo goes to climate school 5. Continued from parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Your house is on fire. Down the block, the police have stopped a gentleman with matches in his pocket and a can of petrol suspended from his arm. “Houses have burned down before,” he says. Of course they have. That’s […]
System Dynamics and Climate Change
October 17, 2013
Father Theo goes to climate school 4. Continued from part 1, part 2 and part 3. Today we talk about stocks, flows and feedbacks. These are terms used in systems dynamics, which in its details can be complicated stuff but like many complicated things is built around a number of quite common-sense ideas. In an […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
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May 25, 2015
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