Robert Alstead
@alstead.bsky.social
Writer, filmmaker, and more, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦.
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The price of EU Carbon Allowances for December closed at €85. A tad stronger than I predicted.
And in 2025 the federal Liberal govt under Mark Carney dropped its consumer carbon price.
#cdnpoli #predictions
And in 2025 the federal Liberal govt under Mark Carney dropped its consumer carbon price.
#cdnpoli #predictions
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The price of EU Carbon Allowances for December closed at €85. A tad stronger than I predicted.
And in 2025 the federal Liberal govt under Mark Carney dropped its consumer carbon price.
#cdnpoli #predictions
And in 2025 the federal Liberal govt under Mark Carney dropped its consumer carbon price.
#cdnpoli #predictions
Looks like this boat's owner had a rough night. #southfalsecreek #yvr
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Looks like this boat's owner had a rough night. #southfalsecreek #yvr
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"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
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November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
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No surprise. Canada's is still expanding its oil & gas complex when it needs to be shrinking. Instead of GHG reductions of 40-45% by 2030, we're now looking at half that. #strandedassets #cdnpoli ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-...
Canada not on track to meet 2030 climate targets, report finds
MONTREAL — A new analysis says Canada is not on track to meet its 2030 or 2035 emissions targets.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
No surprise. Canada's is still expanding its oil & gas complex when it needs to be shrinking. Instead of GHG reductions of 40-45% by 2030, we're now looking at half that. #strandedassets #cdnpoli ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-...
I get the heebie-jeebees parking my bike on Broadway. No room for error when the B-line bus is flying by as you wrestle with your lock. #Vancouver #vanbikes
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I get the heebie-jeebees parking my bike on Broadway. No room for error when the B-line bus is flying by as you wrestle with your lock. #Vancouver #vanbikes
The kids outgrew it yonks ago, but this little trailer obviates the need for so many car trips for a city dweller like myself. Like picking up 102 litre totes. #vanbikes
August 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The kids outgrew it yonks ago, but this little trailer obviates the need for so many car trips for a city dweller like myself. Like picking up 102 litre totes. #vanbikes
Given Canada's not likely to make its 2030 climate targets, let alone Netzero 2050, this is a welcome, wide-ranging look at where #climate policy in Canada might be heading. Realpolitik, not Science, appears to be in the driving seat. #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Where does Carney stand on Canada's 2030 climate targets? It's not clear | CBC News
CBC Radio’s The House takes a look at whether Canada is on track to meet its climate targets under Prime Minister Mark Carney.
www.cbc.ca
August 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Given Canada's not likely to make its 2030 climate targets, let alone Netzero 2050, this is a welcome, wide-ranging look at where #climate policy in Canada might be heading. Realpolitik, not Science, appears to be in the driving seat. #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It was a last resort, but the superglue trick to remove a broken headphone jack stuck in an ipad socket worked. Audio now coming out of the speaker and headphones. share.google/KQm6v9VqKqas...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It was a last resort, but the superglue trick to remove a broken headphone jack stuck in an ipad socket worked. Audio now coming out of the speaker and headphones. share.google/KQm6v9VqKqas...
Visiting in 2022, I was impressed by how much central London has made streets more people-friendly. This'd take it up a notch. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mayor of London to move ahead with Oxford Street traffic ban
Plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", Sir Sadiq Khan says.
www.bbc.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Visiting in 2022, I was impressed by how much central London has made streets more people-friendly. This'd take it up a notch. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As a fire scientist, my first reaction to these maps is that these places are gonna burn.
Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As a fire scientist, my first reaction to these maps is that these places are gonna burn.
Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
BC Children's Hospital needs more bike parking! #bchealth #Vancouver
June 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
BC Children's Hospital needs more bike parking! #bchealth #Vancouver
"Decarbonized oil" is nonsense, Orwellian speak. With a 2c climate rushing upon us faster than scientists originally forecast Canada needs to be reducing not expanding output of Albertan heavy oil. Not building more pipelines. #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.vancouverisawesome.com/economy-law-...
Rob Shaw: Carney sidesteps B.C. as Alberta, feds push for new West Coast pipeline
A new pipeline deal is forming and British Columbia is barely in the room
www.vancouverisawesome.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Decarbonized oil" is nonsense, Orwellian speak. With a 2c climate rushing upon us faster than scientists originally forecast Canada needs to be reducing not expanding output of Albertan heavy oil. Not building more pipelines. #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.vancouverisawesome.com/economy-law-...
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I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair. pic.x.com/zhqZhT6iPB
June 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair. pic.x.com/zhqZhT6iPB
Digitalis thapsi (foxglove) at shoreline at Leg-in-boot Sq, Vancouver.
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Digitalis thapsi (foxglove) at shoreline at Leg-in-boot Sq, Vancouver.
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NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant.
Why? The government told them to move out.
Why? The government told them to move out.
May 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant.
Why? The government told them to move out.
Why? The government told them to move out.
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Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.
Not what you normally think of as "glacial". Looks like a pyroclastic flow. Glad that they saw it coming. #blatten www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Not what you normally think of as "glacial". Looks like a pyroclastic flow. Glad that they saw it coming. #blatten www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Twit ta...who knew Douglas Park has owls? #Vancouver
May 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Twit ta...who knew Douglas Park has owls? #Vancouver
Crimson clover beside the old railway track beside the Cambie Bridge. #Vancouver
May 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Crimson clover beside the old railway track beside the Cambie Bridge. #Vancouver
Last Friday of the month... #Vancouver #bikes
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Last Friday of the month... #Vancouver #bikes
March 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Waltz explanation tomorrow night: "I couldn't see the reporter's name on the chat because I injured my eye when I forgot to remove the spoon from my coffee mug."
March 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Waltz explanation tomorrow night: "I couldn't see the reporter's name on the chat because I injured my eye when I forgot to remove the spoon from my coffee mug."