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“human-caused climate change is real, serious, and immediate” – Scientists
An Open Letter Regarding Climate Change From Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Human-caused climate change is not a belief, a hoax, or a conspiracy. It is a physical reality. Fossil fuels powered the Industrial Revolution. But the burning of oil, coal, and gas also caused most of the historical increase in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mama Remembers 400
May 13, 2013
A little discussion with Mama about the meaning of 400 parts per million. Mama was looking through the bones of her extinct children the other day (Mama doesn’t keep photographs) and pulled out a strange skull, gigantic, tusks attached to its lower jaw. “Deinotherium, what a lovely name. Of course, Deino never heard it since […]
Extinction Events and 100 Generations of Carbon
March 24, 2013
Carbon Karma Is Karma on Steroids Let’s put two ideas together to show some of the dimension of things, a taste of the real cost of carbon. Joe Romm’s headline practically covers the first idea by itself, “Doubling of CO2 Levels in End-Triassic Extinction Killed Off Three Quarters of Land and Sea Species.” Romm’s article discusses […]
The “Hockey Stick” – Augmented
March 10, 2013
The journal Science has just published an update on Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph by a new team of scientists, who, by combining 73 sets of globally distributed records have extended the reconstruction of past global temperatures back 11,300 years. Michael Mann’s hockey stick only went back 1500 years. The new reconstruction by Marcott et […]
Oz Sizzles in the Hottest Summer Ever
February 28, 2013
Following close on the heels of the hottest summer in United States history, we now have the hottest summer in Australian history, 1.1oC (2oF approx.) hotter than the 1961-1990 average. Daytime maximum temperatures were 1.4oC (2.5oF) hotter than average. And this record-breaking summer happened courtesy of global warming alone, without a leg up from El […]
Conspiracies, Free Markets and Climate Change Denial
February 6, 2013
Outed as conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers suspect a plot. Recently a trio of social scientists, Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer, and Gilles Gignac published a paper studying the motivations and characteristics of climate science deniers, “NASA faked the moon landing–Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science.” For the […]
Retreating From Fire
January 17, 2013
Surrendering the beaches in the era of climate change. A couple of years ago, after the Canadian Prairies and adjacent regions of the United States had suffered its third “100 year flood” event in about 15 years, there were grumblings in the comment pages of newspapers about how the “taxpayers” shouldn’t have to continue subsidizing […]
Adding Up Superstorm Sandy
November 29, 2012
Superstorm Sandy shows how climate change can add up. Climate change warms the oceans, evaporates more water vapour and raises the air temperature. All these conditions separately and together power stronger storms and also stronger storm surges, and the increase in water vapour increases the amount of precipitation that the storms drop. Climate change also […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
September 21, 2016
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