The Canadian Writer (and Climate Change Specialist)
I'm embarrassed to admit I'd never heard of the host country of COP 29, Azerbaijan, before I started reading about this year's Conference of the Parties (Big UN Climate Change Conference). I knew nothing of the Absheron Peninsula and had some reading to do about the host city, Baku. Among other things. And now that… Continue reading COP 29, Briefly
I've written a few bits and pieces about climate change in film, but I must admit I often see climate change in films where it was never intended to be a focus. It can't be helped, that's what happens once you have a degree in climate change. If you talk about or depict the planet's… Continue reading Perfect Date? That’s a Tough One. I’d have to say April 25th.
A 7 p.m. text message on December 13th from the New York Times described it as, "A breakthrough deal on climate change". Keep that in mind as we move forward. The great mismatch that characterized COP 28 (The big UN Climate Change Conference) was that expectations were very, very low for what could be accomplished… Continue reading COP 28, Briefly
I wrote an unexpectedly popular post a little while ago where I vented about the success of my most famous creation, Latheck the Barbarian. In said post, I explored my complicated relationship with Latheck's first story, and mentioned that Latheck was gearing up for a second outing in my latest book, newly reimagined as a… Continue reading Latheck the Climate Change Barbarian
I'll admit to being a bad climate change specialist/professional and I did not pay a ton of attention to COP27 while it was going on. The U.S. Midterms, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and some skullduggery around union rights in my home province of Ontario dominated the news during COP, and I didn't see much… Continue reading COP27, Briefly
Climate change is wrought with jargon, concepts that are very hard to summarize in plain English, and lots adjacent fields like 'sustainability' and 'environmentalism' that muddy the waters further and can make climate change seem like an incoherent, abstract, and overwhelming mess. But there's one interesting linguistic slight-of-hand that climate scientists pulled off to impress… Continue reading ‘Business as Usual’ Doesn’t Make a lot of Sense
Whether you're a young sprite determined to change the world, a middle-aged millennial looking for a new career, or in the later stages of your work life and looking for a new adventure, you might consider a career in climate change! Imagine that, getting paid to slow or adapt to a calamitous, poorly understood, slow-moving… Continue reading A Career in Climate Change
Reading climate news over the last couple of weeks, you'd be forgiven for wondering what on Earth is going on with global efforts to slow and adapt to climate change. On the one hand, we've made progress on decarbonization to the point that the apocalyptic scenario of climate change destroying most life on Earth is… Continue reading When it Comes to Climate, Things are Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time
The 27th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference is upon us! Usually shorthanded to COP (long story), and individual COPs get a number. So there's COP1, COP2, COP15, COP21, et cetera. This November is COP27. An event where world leaders, business leaders, legislators, lobbyists, celebrities, finance hawks, non-profits, activists, and an army of corporate representatives… Continue reading The Long and Fraught Road to COP27
"You know, you guys should be really worried about climate change" Pete Townshend, guitarist of British rock band 'The Who', told an audience of thousands at a Who concert in Tampa, Florida, in 2019. If I'd been in the crowd, I'd have bellowed, "NO SHIT!" right back to him. Not the most elevated language, to… Continue reading Florida: A Discussion on Managed Retreat
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