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Because apparently we can't have a website anymore without a blog
The blah-blah-blog
Actually, I post a lot of information related to climate change almost daily elsewhere.
But, as time permits, I'm going to put the esoterica I encounter related to climate change
here rather than trying to update the various pages. So this will be reverse in chronological rather
than logically organized within the structure of the rest of this website. Please don't
rely on this as a consistent and current source for climate change information updates.
Sadly, we cannot rely on our corporate-controlled mass media for good information on this.
I update this site on my own time, and making a living has to take priority.
Past blog pages: May 2019 June 2019
July 2019 August 2019
September 2019 October 2019
November 2019 December 2019
January 2020 February 2020
March 2020 April 2020
May 2020 June 2020
July 2020
2021.12.16 Another example of funding (proposed) to go in the wrong direction
Case in point of our 'leadership' revving up to go ever faster into our demise.
If Jason Kenney wants a $32B subsidy for Big Oil, he should pay for it (National Observer)
The over-riding point here is not that Alberta should pay for another subsidy for the
massively profitable mostly foreign-owned oil industry, it's that nobody should.
2021.12.09 Fossil fuel tax breaks costing Canada billions
We do seem determined as a global population of homo sapiens to continue going ever faster
in the wrong direction. In Canada's case, we (Canadian taxpayers) continue to subsidize the
production and sale of fossil fuels which add daily to our climate change problem. (The
'sapiens' label may not really be appropriate based on facts in evidence.)
Fossil fuel tax breaks costing Canada billions (National Observer)
2021.11.01 PM Mottley at COP26
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley addresses the COP 26. 8 minutes 19 seconds. This is
the context and reality check for the post-Paris Accord meetings. It calls out why greed is
the cause for our continuing failure.
Just watch it.
It's just my peculiar perception, but I can't help but read the conference logo graphic,
not as UN=United Nations, but as Un-, the negation. Hence, the Un-Climate-Change Conference
UK 2021; a title that prophesies failure to take the necessary actions. I hope I'm wrong.
As PM Mottley says, failure at COP 26 is a death sentence for island nations.
2021.10.31 - It's been a while; COVID has been something of a distraction. I may be able to return to this now.
It is not only All Hallows Eve, but scarier still, it is also the eve of the Conference of the Parties
26th annual gathering of the apologists and deniers (COP 26) creating massive GHGs from jet travel
for the self-congratulatory PR fest for the powers that be, and where true advocates and problem
solvers are left outside the gates. I'll state now that the end-of-event statement will once again
mouth platitudes about the scope of the problem, that we must act now, and then serve up zero hard
commitments that any government or corporate entity will have to stand to account for, or suffer any
penalties for simply continuing the charade as staged regularly since Rio. Happy to have saved you
some time with this spoiler.
2021.10.22 ‘More jobs will be created by the energy transition than lost’ –IRENA
One of the fallacies about the transition from the fossil carbon fuel energy paradigm that
irks me the most is the continued drum-beat from the 0.1% and their megaphones is that so
many jobs will be lost and the economy will suffer. Well, the economy is people, and people
will be better off if they continue to have a habitable planet and their energy costs go
down. Energy sources without fuel costs (e.g., wind, solar, hydro) will have lower lifetime
energy costs than the merry-go-round of taxes subsidizing high-priced fossil energy.
The fossil-fuel sector has been cutting jobs world-wide for years, and definitely before
the COVID-19 pandemic cut slightly into fossil fuel consumption.
This article points to the
IRENA Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2021,
which points out once again that growth in zero-emissions renewables will create sustainable jobs -
some 25 million in the next 8 years. That looks like a solid place to invest.
Past blog pages: May 2019 June 2019
July 2019 August 2019
September 2019 October 2019
November 2019 December 2019
January 2020 February 2020
March 2020 April 2020
May 2020 June 2020
July 2020
You can find many earlier postings (going back to year 2000) related to climate change at:
Keith's List Archive and
the Sustainable Biofuel List Mail Archive.
I present a lot of information in this blog and on this website. If you need some help sorting through the
noise level and getting a forward-looking, proactive approach to climate change for your business, I can do
that work for you via my consulting business. Contact
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