Andy Smith 🇨🇦
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Since 2015, Canada's oil and gas production has increased by a third and greenhouse gas emissions remain high. With the current federal government, we should expect these trends to continue—at great cost to the planet and the public. @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Since 2015, Canada's oil and gas production has increased by a third and greenhouse gas emissions remain high. With the current federal government, we should expect these trends to continue—at great cost to the planet and the public. @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
Clean energy is going to win. It's just a question of when.
Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.
www.canarymedia.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
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Jesus was rad. Amen.
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Jesus was rad. Amen.
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American conservatives and other types of fascist don't love Trump because he lies well. They've had leaders who lied well before and rejected them.
They love him because he lies badly. The more blatant his lies, the more they love him.
Lies are pure virtue to fascists.
They love him because he lies badly. The more blatant his lies, the more they love him.
Lies are pure virtue to fascists.
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
American conservatives and other types of fascist don't love Trump because he lies well. They've had leaders who lied well before and rejected them.
They love him because he lies badly. The more blatant his lies, the more they love him.
Lies are pure virtue to fascists.
They love him because he lies badly. The more blatant his lies, the more they love him.
Lies are pure virtue to fascists.
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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literally every single person I know in BC right now re: Carney’s proposed pipeline
a man with a beard and the words " you shall not pass " on the bottom
ALT: a man with a beard and the words " you shall not pass " on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
literally every single person I know in BC right now re: Carney’s proposed pipeline
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Say what you will about the Conservatives, but at least they would have stabbed you in the front.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Say what you will about the Conservatives, but at least they would have stabbed you in the front.
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I think we need to stop putting so much emphasis on federal governments and international negotiations. Yes, they could help. But they've failed us badly during the last 30+ years.
Maybe we can put a bit more attention on community-based solutions, affordable decarbinization tools, and markets?
Maybe we can put a bit more attention on community-based solutions, affordable decarbinization tools, and markets?
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I think we need to stop putting so much emphasis on federal governments and international negotiations. Yes, they could help. But they've failed us badly during the last 30+ years.
Maybe we can put a bit more attention on community-based solutions, affordable decarbinization tools, and markets?
Maybe we can put a bit more attention on community-based solutions, affordable decarbinization tools, and markets?
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Concerning: for a high emissions scenario, the model found a 37% increase in daily extreme precipitation over land by 2100. “Much of the increase was driven by shifts in wind patterns that created chains of severe thunderstorms hundreds of kilometers long that traditional models fail to capture.”
My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.
High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet, turbulent future
With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Concerning: for a high emissions scenario, the model found a 37% increase in daily extreme precipitation over land by 2100. “Much of the increase was driven by shifts in wind patterns that created chains of severe thunderstorms hundreds of kilometers long that traditional models fail to capture.”
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My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years.
Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.
Full story ↓
🧪 #SciComm
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Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.
Full story ↓
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/WMgl3kB
The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever
How research showing mammals in the wrong climates made me leave the lab for storytelling The last scientific research that I led made me quit...
climateages.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years.
Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.
Full story ↓
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/WMgl3kB
Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible
and why I now focus on sharing it clearly.
Full story ↓
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/WMgl3kB
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The budget is coming up next week, and it's amidst all the nation-building talk, it's great time to ask what kind of country we want to be.
My vote is one that invests heavily in social supports and worker control of the economy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
My vote is one that invests heavily in social supports and worker control of the economy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: With their long-awaited budget, Liberals must answer the question: What do we want Canada to be about?
Mark Carney ought to put an expansion of the welfare state at the centre of his nation-building strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The budget is coming up next week, and it's amidst all the nation-building talk, it's great time to ask what kind of country we want to be.
My vote is one that invests heavily in social supports and worker control of the economy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
My vote is one that invests heavily in social supports and worker control of the economy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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The Myth of Continuity: Canada’s Illusion of a Safe Energy Transition
The energy future will NOT look like the energy past.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
The energy future will NOT look like the energy past.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
The Myth of Continuity: Canada’s Illusion of a Safe Energy Transition
The energy future will not look like the energy past
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Myth of Continuity: Canada’s Illusion of a Safe Energy Transition
The energy future will NOT look like the energy past.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
The energy future will NOT look like the energy past.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
@MarkJCarney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
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My op-ed on Chronic Wasting Disease response in British Columbia cranbrooktownsman.com/2025/10/28/c...
COLUMN: CWD response can’t wait - Cranbrook Daily Townsman
Province needs to move faster to respond to emergence of Chronic Wasting Disease in the East Kootenay
cranbrooktownsman.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My op-ed on Chronic Wasting Disease response in British Columbia cranbrooktownsman.com/2025/10/28/c...
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The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.
That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.
That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
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Every single person killed by a gun in the US is just a real as Charlie Kirk. All of them have families who love them, aspirations, social networks. All of them are people. They deserve exactly as much mourning as Kirk.
October 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Every single person killed by a gun in the US is just a real as Charlie Kirk. All of them have families who love them, aspirations, social networks. All of them are people. They deserve exactly as much mourning as Kirk.
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Earth’s underground network of fungi needs urgent protection, say researchers #Climate
Earth’s underground network of fungi needs urgent protection, say researchers
Study finds that only 9.5% of fungal biodiversity hotspots fell within existing protected areas
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Earth’s underground network of fungi needs urgent protection, say researchers #Climate
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2 weeks ago I wrote a column about the maddening paradox that there is $ for a dramatic ramp-up in military spending but not for climate - our most pressing security & civilizational threat.
Now my team produced a video version. Excerpt is 👇
& full video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLg-...
Now my team produced a video version. Excerpt is 👇
& full video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLg-...
Canada has the money. But it's not being spent on the real emergency.
Seth Klein on why it’s so easy to commit 5% of GDP to military spending, and so hard to spend 2% on climate.
🎥 Full video: youtu.be/hLg-O5wUYNo
📖 Full column:
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/o...
Seth Klein on why it’s so easy to commit 5% of GDP to military spending, and so hard to spend 2% on climate.
🎥 Full video: youtu.be/hLg-O5wUYNo
📖 Full column:
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/o...
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
2 weeks ago I wrote a column about the maddening paradox that there is $ for a dramatic ramp-up in military spending but not for climate - our most pressing security & civilizational threat.
Now my team produced a video version. Excerpt is 👇
& full video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLg-...
Now my team produced a video version. Excerpt is 👇
& full video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLg-...
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To put this headline differently: "LNG Canada's plant in Kitimat is about to become the single largest point source of GHG emissions in BC, and its LNG exports, once burned overseas, will generate carbon emissions roughly equivalent to half the total GHGs of BC."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
LNG Canada achieves first production of liquefied natural gas in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says it has 'safely achieved its first production' of liquefied natural gas at its facility in Kitimat, B.C.
www.cbc.ca
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
To put this headline differently: "LNG Canada's plant in Kitimat is about to become the single largest point source of GHG emissions in BC, and its LNG exports, once burned overseas, will generate carbon emissions roughly equivalent to half the total GHGs of BC."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Factory trawlers have huge impact off B.C.'s coast www.biv.com/news/environ...
Factory trawlers have Ireland-sized impact off B.C.'s coast, investigation claims
An investigation traces arrival of nine large factory trawlers to B.C.'s coast in recent years, claiming some may be involved in illegal fishing
www.biv.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Factory trawlers have huge impact off B.C.'s coast www.biv.com/news/environ...
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Tom Longboat was the greatest marathon runner in the world when he signed up to fight in the First World War for Canada.
He served as a dispatch runner and was twice falsely-reported as dead in the front lines.
This is the story of the Bulldog of Britannia.
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He served as a dispatch runner and was twice falsely-reported as dead in the front lines.
This is the story of the Bulldog of Britannia.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tom Longboat was the greatest marathon runner in the world when he signed up to fight in the First World War for Canada.
He served as a dispatch runner and was twice falsely-reported as dead in the front lines.
This is the story of the Bulldog of Britannia.
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He served as a dispatch runner and was twice falsely-reported as dead in the front lines.
This is the story of the Bulldog of Britannia.
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Climate change: The shit is hitting the fan, and the fan is on maximum.
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Climate change: The shit is hitting the fan, and the fan is on maximum.