Climate Change

 

Climate change has arrived.  Through erratic weather patterns, forest fires and glacier melt we are already experiencing the effects of climate change.  Worse, the process of climate change, based on the levels of greenhouse gases we have already put in the atmosphere, is likely to increase the severity and frequency of severe weather events. If we allow levels of greenhouse gases to continue to rise, the disasters of today will be dwarfed by future catastrophic impacts.

Clearly, one of humanity’s principal challenges in this century will be to stop climate change.  To do this, we must drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) – gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that trap heat in the atmosphere, raising global temperature and thereby spurring climate change.

Humans have become addicted to burning fossil fuels for energy - a principal cause of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions.  The...
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Critics slam Prentice's lack of leadership to fight climate change
15 Mar, 2010   |   The government says it's taking a leadership role on the climate change file, but opposition MPs and environmentalists say Environment Minister Jim Prentice and the federal Conservatives are doing everything they can to delay implementing much-needed regulations to fight catastrophic climate change. Additional Excerpt: Sierra Club executive director John Bennett said last week there is no...
Government, environmentalists and industry say 'Climategate' has not affected strategy
15 Mar, 2010   |   The federal government, environmentalists and industry say they have not been sidelined by last fall's international "Climategate" incident in their effort to fight climate change.
Government says it's on climate change track with U.S., critics say Canada not on Obama's radar
15 Mar, 2010   |   The Canadian government says it is working with the U.S. to harmonize its environmental policies, but environmental groups say Canada is nowhere close to being on U.S. President Barack Obama's radar when it comes to fighting climate change. Additional Excerpt: John Bennett, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, said the government's decision to "synchronize" its climate change...
Sierra Index: Winter Stats
11 Mar, 2010   |   This past winter was the warmest and driest on record for Canada.  Below are some statistics: -Number of degrees (in  ̊C) warmer that 2009/10 was compared to normal: 4 -Rank of this past winter in terms of warmth since records were first kept in 1948: 1 -Rank of this past winter in terms of lack of precipitation over the 63-year record: 1 -Amount (as a percentage) below normal of...
Foes find common ground
8 Mar, 2010   |   John Bennett said that business and environmentalism have had an often-confrontational relationship in the past, but the relationship is evolving. Bennett, three months into his new job as executive director of the environmental group Sierra Club Canada, was the keynote speaker at the Queen's University's Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference on the weekend. "It's changed a...
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