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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Oil Sands Independent Toxins Report
2 Sep, 2010   |   Excerpted from the report: "We show that the oil sands industry releases the 13 elements considered priority pollutants (PPE) under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act, via air and water, to the Athabasca River and its watershed. In the 2008 snowpack, all PPE except selenium were greater near oil sands developments than at more remote sites. Bitumen upgraders...
Renner Dismisses Oilsands Toxins Report
1 Sep, 2010   |   EDMONTON — Alberta's environment minister disputed the conclusions of a controversial oilsands study Tuesday, saying it's likely that increased toxins in the Athabasca River are due to natural causes. But Rob Renner admitted he hadn't read the paper and could point to no peer-reviewed data or studies to back up his assertion. "My scientists are telling me that the...
New Study Links Tar Sands to Carcinogens
31 Aug, 2010   |   A new study led by University of Alberta ecologist Dr. David Schindler and published in the renowned Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes some alarming conclusions about the water near the tar sands. After monitoring 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries, Dr. Schindler concluded the tar sands have added carcinogenic toxins to the area environment....
Response to Newfoundland & Labrador Public Discussion Document: “Responding to Climate Change in Newfoundland & Labrador”
31 Aug, 2010   |     Submission to the Office of Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Emissions Trading, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador     Response to Newfoundland & Labrador Public Discussion Document:    “Responding to Climate Change in Newfoundland & Labrador”       by Sierra Club Canada, Atlantic Chapter. ...
Tar Sands Giant Total falls short on Green Promises
30 Aug, 2010   |   In addition to highlighting areas of concern, Sierra Club also highlights the technology that Total originally said would be part of the mining proposal but has since been removed. Total’s updated proposal flies in the face of several provincial and federal statements to eliminate toxic tailing waste ponds, move away from open pit mining projects, and to use carbon capture and storage...
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