Tag Archives: climate change

Last month I published a full-length article in the “The Monitor” magazine providing a “how we got here” analysis of the Ontario electricity sector and some options for the next Government.  Since then, two things have changed: first on May 31 two investigative journalists, Carolyn Jarvis and Brian Hill, wrote an excellent story for Global News about how successive Liberal Ministers of Energy ignored expert agency advice, which resulted in Ontario households having to pay billions of dollars...

Review of Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance by Frank Ackerman *** Long ago economics was termed “the dismal science,” but in recent years that title has arguably been passed on to climate science, with its regular and dire warnings that humanity needs to rapidly transition off of its use of fossil fuels for energy. In the face of such calls to action, progress has been frustratingly slow. The 2015 Paris Agreement offers some hope, as does the small-but-growing share...

Are we living in denial because the consequences and alternatives are unthinkable for most? Or are the doomsayers wrong? Some of alive right now won't be alive to find out. Some may find out and likely will. Even so, our offspring most certainly will find out. It could be a very unpleasant discovery through experience.real economicsAre we doomed? Jonathan Larson

Melting of glaciers from beneath.The London EconomicWatch - New process contributing to sea level rise and climate change discovered Joe Mellor

You've probably heard about the Gulf Stream weakening and the potentially "catastrophic" effects.This climate scientist says not to worry.Note that the piece doesn't say that climate change is not occurring or claim that humans are not involved. It just says that the conventional wisdom about the Gulf Stream is wrong.Earth Institute — Columbia UniversityClimate mythology: The Gulf Stream, European climate and Abrupt ChangeRichard SeagerLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University...

India is the most vulnerable country to climate change, followed by Pakistan, the Philippines and Bangladesh, a ranking by HSBC showed on Monday.... Pakistan was ranked by HSBC among nations least well-equipped to respond to climate risks.... Not that prior to the partition of India after independence, Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India. This area of the subcontinent is most vulnerable.ReutersIndia most vulnerable country to climate change - HSBC report

I’ve written a blog post about this year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). Points raised in the blog post include the following: -This year’s AFB would create 470,000 (full-time equivalent) jobs in its first year alone. By year 2 of the plan, 600,000 new (full-time equivalent) jobs will exist. -This year’s AFB will also bring in universal pharmacare, address involuntary part-time employment among women, eliminate tuition fees for all post-secondary students in Canada, speed up...

Climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization are the three most significant challenges to civilization as we know it, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. These are all conditions either caused by or strongly influenced by neoliberalism, which entails neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, as well as "colonizing" the vast majority of the populations of the developed countries that heretofore had...

What happens when land is consolidated with capital as a factor and the objective is maximizing profit short-term.The GuardianMass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to deathGeorge MonbiotSee alsoPatreonPrinciples of Political Economy: The opening lines Steve Keen

Sea level rising faster than anticipated by older models. A new model (2002) explains the acceleration.  Coastal land value?Flassbeck EconomicsThe doomsday glacier problem Will Denayer