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I was today years old when I realised that the purification of silicon — needed for computer chips — is an incredibly carbon intensive process, and that in a post-carbon economy, we may not be able to do it at all.
So — no more computers, at least not with the technology we use now; and, probably, nowhere near as cheap or as ubiquitous.
#ClimateEmergency
In Our Time: Si…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Silicon
The role of silicon from chips to glass to the balance of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere

I fear that the proliferation of expert panels on #ClimateChange is a bit like Randall Munroe's famous cartoon about the proliferation of standards. We don't need more panels, we need to pay more attention to the ones we already have
#ClimateEmergency

Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns - NDP Critic on the Environment and Climate Change file had a passionate and grateful send off for Steven Guilbeault today.
They worked together alot and their mutual respect showed here.
#cdnpoli #canpoli #climatechange #climateemergency #stevenguilbeaul #LPC

Very interesting interview with a thermodynamicist who works for the Saudi government and has worked for several of the oil majors. You'd think he'd be a #GreenWashing. #GlobalWarming denier, but quite the contrary!

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

If we had a national oil company instead of being overrun by Texas oilmen and their Albertan sycophants, maybe we'd be able to redirect some of this temporary profit into... oh I don't know...
reducing national food prices…
building affordable housing…
funding the transition to renewable energy and electrification.
But oh, I see the only two options are: "increase production" or “take the money and run”.
Great.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Economy

We live in a world in which we face several separate genuinely existential problems, at least one of which, the #ClimateEmergency, is so critical that unless we make radical change this decade there is no future for life on this planet. And our media have spent the week discussing gossip about a useless crew of politicians not one of whom has the courage even to discuss possible ways to a…

"Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear."
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AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

Perhaps those "skeptics", like the "climate skeptics" we have also endured over 20 years, weren't actually "skeptical" at all. They were just fossil fuel industry talking heads and plants, paid or brain washed or both to ensure Fossil Fuels were never without a cheerleader.
"A new large‑scale UK dataset suggests EV batteries are holding up far better than many skeptics expected."
#enfossilfuels #climateEmergency #bcpoli #canpoli https://electrek.co/2026/02/18/most-ev-batteries-outlast-their-cars-real-world-data-shows/

meanwhile Albertans are big mad because their big lakes are not big enough anymore for their big boats.
"David Barrett, a University of Calgary biological sciences instructor, said changing climate patterns are making low water levels a growing reality across Alberta lakes.”
#FAFO #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Drought #EndFossilFuels #CanPoli #ABPoli

What is actually happening Mr. Prime Minister?
It's demand transformation, not supply disruption.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Energy #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Iran #Hormuz #USA

least surprising headline of the day:
“Gas flaring at LNG Canada far exceeds permitted volume, documents show
UVic researcher says gas flaring volumes have been 'consistently higher' than allowed since last fall”
#BCLNG #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-canada-gas-flaring-exceeds-permits-9.7157738

these two major fires happened nine days apart. Either one could have come into town with the right conditions. We are having a community meeting on Wednesday to go over what happened last year. It's going to be interesting and probably pretty emotional. Rightly so.
I honestly think a big reason why most of the Liberal Party just doesn't get it is because they are centered in urban and sub urban Ontario and don't have to worry about their homes burning down every year.
And allow me to just stop you right there before you say this is normal for our neck of the woods.
Fires? sure. Fires that threaten towns on Vancouver Island. No. Never. Not in my lifetime. Nor anyone elses.
#cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #wildfire #climateChaos #endfossilfuels

Question for Carney supporters.
When my house burns down in a climate change- accelerated fire, will I be allowed to vote for someone other than the Liberals without the "but you'll just elect a Conservative" or "but the economy" bullshit?
I await your permission. 🙏
P.S. And this is not a rhetorical question, we have had 3 major fires within 20km of our home in the past 3 years. We have been protected by geography, BCWildfire, and luck.
#cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #wildfire #climateChaos #endfossilfuels

There is something darkly poetic about the Straits of Hormuz opening on the same day Japan coins a new official word -- “kokushobi” -- to describe extreme hot weather days.
#EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Japan #USA #Iran #IranUSAIsraelWar #Israel #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #Gas

“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”
Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.
This is the future.
China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli

France is planning to:
exit coal by 2030
oil by 2045
natural gas by 2050.
Done. End. Finished. C'est fini.
The fossil fuel industry is a dead end!!
#EndFossilFuels #Canada #CanPoli #France #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/france-unveils-fossil-fuel-exit-plan-at-colombia-climate-summit?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NzQ3Nzc2NCwiZXhwIjoxNzc4MDgyNTY0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURTlHNEtLSVAzTFUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.YyRRvfA43ONKCIANNWIpdeGW7PHIn6WfgK7HGnk2NsU

Uhoh... the beginning of some buyer's remorse perhaps for the folks who thought LNG was going to be the Great New Job Creator and saviour of Terrace BC?
"Mayor Sean Bujtas closed off debate by saying he had a problem with LNG Canada itself.
“LNG Canada boasted the cleanest LNG facility in the world and I don’t really think we’re there today,” he said. “And so the question is why, and when are we getting there? We have an air shed. You can only get it so dirty before it becomes a problem.”
“I’m confident everybody in Kitimat and everybody in Terrace is seeing something they did not expect to see at all,” Bujtas continued.”
Imagine that... a fossil fuel operation that has lied to the community, and is causing orders of magnitude more damage to the community and the global environment than they said on paper.
#BCPoli #BCLNG #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Environment #Pollution
https://terracestandard.com/2026/04/28/terrace-council-backs-call-for-lng-impact-assessment/

Electrification must be accelerated! Including at the municipal level with things like electric garbage trucks (like in Cowichan), zambonis (like in Port Alberni), and Vancouver’s fire trucks!
@… asked the question recently at a council meeting!
"Cator… estimated that the savings in fuel from the electric garbage truck would be in the tens of thousands of dollars per year at the current prices of diesel.
“It’s just one of our four garbage trucks, but it’s definitely a substantial savings,”
Cowichan Garbage Truck: #MuniPoli #Electrification #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #CanPoli #CdnPoli