Visitors to this blog last weekend may have been puzzled to notice a new fuel category called “control actions” in Tables 1 and 2 in the left sidebar. This strange new category was introduced for the first time beginning on…
Category: Ontario
Ontario electricity and ocean acidification: fighting carbon with nuclear power
The acidity of the world’s oceans has since the Industrial Revolution increased by 30 percent, according to the U.S. National Atmospheric and Ocean Administration (NOAA). This is because the Industrial Revolution introduced machine power to human civilization; and machines multiplied,…
Don’t be depressed over the latest IPCC report, just learn the lesson: we CAN live well and prosper, cleanly
The IPCC at the end of March issued another report warning of the serious consequences of untrammeled dumping of man-made carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere. Read the report, and it’s hard not to come away under a pall of…
Electrifying transportation: easy policy, local politics
Like politics, all environmentalism is local. It’s the actions you take as you go about your day that determine the balance in your own personal carbon account with Mother Earth. Fortunately, it is actually very easy, thanks to actions taken…
Earth Hour schlock: how a dumb idea jumped across the world’s biggest ocean
The silly, vapid, and vacuous pop culture fad called Earth Hour began in Sydney Australia in 2007. Its lead promoter is the WWF; that’s the organization currently running those confusing ads on TV. The WWF is, alas, not the World…