Stop the Thingamajiggy!
Never underestimate the American talent for turning dry policy decisions into bad opera. In this latest episode, well-intentioned environmental activists are using Washington D.C.’s men in uniform to...
View ArticleHo, ho, hold up using Santa as climate change victim
Ho, ho, hold on just a minute, David Suzuki. With the United Nations climate change conference opening in South Africa, the David Suzuki Foundation took the opportunity to hit up donors playing on the...
View ArticleCalgary geoscientist starts Antarctic boot camp
Bitten by the polar bug, Susan R. Eaton returns to Antarctica in March 2012, participating in the International Antarctic Expedition (IAE ) 2012 which focuses on renewable energy, climate change and...
View ArticleJoy and awe as expedition reaches Antarctica
We finally arrived in Antarctica, via the LeMaire Channel. International Antarctic Expedition 2012; video courtesy of 2041 Expedition. View Larger Map
View ArticleAntarctica can be tough if you’re not a morning person
LEMAIRE CHANNEL– Sound asleep in our beds, we were abruptly awakened at dawn by the safety officer’s booming voice – invading our cabin via the ship’s intercom – telling us we had five minutes to dress...
View ArticleSurvival camping at Paradise Harbour, Antarctica
MARCH 6. 64° 52′ SOUTH AND 62° 49′ WEST — Camping in Antarctica is harsh – at the best of times – and I was leery of the overnight exercise that 2041 had dubbed “Survival Camping.” On March 6, as part...
View ArticleInternational flavour at the bottom of the world
MARCH 7. 64° 44′ SOUTH AND 62° 37′ WEST. DANCO ISLAND We climbed to the top of Danco Island to enjoy a panoramic vista (isn’t every Antarctic vista panoramic?) We saw gentoo penguins and fur seals,...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day in Antarctica
62° 13′ SOUTH AND 58° 49′ WEST CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (IWD) IN ANTARCTICA IWD celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. I was both...
View ArticleAntarctic bluff a treat for the geologist in me
MARCH 9 63° 31′ SOUTH AND 56° 53′ WEST BROWN BLUFF, WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA The IAE 2012 team conducted its final and most challenging team exercise of the expedition on a glacier at Brown Bluff –...
View ArticleScientists respond to Dani the denier
This week, Danielle Smith, the leader of Alberta’s Wildrose party, repeated her oft-stated position that the science on climate change isn’t settled. Meeting with the Calgary Herald editorial board on...
View ArticleTEDxAntarcticPeninsula Event Powered by Renewable Energy
Robert Swan, OBE, and Paras Loomba showcase the renewable energy technology that powered the TEDxAntarcticPeninsula event at Paradise Harbour. Image courtesy of 2041 (International Antarctic...
View ArticleSusan R. Eaton condenses 25,000 years of geology into a one-minute lecture at...
International Antarctic Expedition 2012 members arrive in Ushuaia. The rounded cirques and glaciers of the Martial Range dominate the background. Photo courtesy of 2041 (IAE 2012) USHUAIA, TIERRA DEL...
View ArticleCalgary International Film Festival: National Film Board documentary,...
Had they chose to go that way, Canmore filmmakers Stephen A. Smith and Julia Szucs could have easily inserted themselves into the action of their National Film Board documentary, Vanishing Point. There...
View ArticleGeoscientists sail to Antarctica to study plate tectonics, glaciology and...
JANUARY 1, 2013, 53° 17.3′ SOUTH AND 45° 7.2′ WEST — We heralded in the New Year with two celebrations: at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, our dinner concluded with a rousing chorus of Auld Lang Syne....
View ArticleEwart: Oil price free fall trumps Ottawa's concern over action on GHG emissions
Sure it’s “crazy” talk, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper is actually being up front about his assessment of climate policy and the oil industry. Agree with Harper or not, it’s a change from his...
View ArticleLetters for Monday, Dec. 22: Fond memories of Castro don't fly
Maggie’s selective memory Re: “Memories of Castro,” Dec. 19. I find it remarkable that anyone with a brain or sense of history would remark, as Margaret Trudeau did, that she found Fidel Castro a “very...
View ArticleEwart: "Nature" report adds perspective to CCS limits
If oil under $50 a barrel hasn’t put enough pressure on Canada’s oil industry, a report this week calls for the shuttering of all oilsands mines within five years, production to be reduced by...
View ArticleEwart: Liberal leader links market access woes to federal inaction on GHG...
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau ventured into traditionally hostile territory Friday — the Calgary Petroleum Club — to champion a plan for an “ambitious and visionary” national plan to address climate...
View ArticleMedia gong show around inevitable White House veto a long-running joke
U.S. President Barack Obama “quietly” killed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline this week and, in other news, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” Media coverage of the White House’s...
View ArticleMcQueen insists province will meet 2020 emissions reduction target, despite...
Alberta’s newly appointed climate change minister insists the province will meet its 2020 target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, despite previous admissions from the Tory government that the goal...
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