Climate Change

Climate change has arrived.  Through erratic weather patterns, forest fires and glacier melt we are already experiencing the effects of climate change.  Worse, the process of climate change, based on the levels of greenhouse gases we have already put in the atmosphere, is likely to increase the severity and frequency of severe weather events. If we allow levels of greenhouse gases to continue to rise, the disasters of today will be dwarfed by future catastrophic impacts.

Clearly, one of humanity’s principal challenges in this century will be to stop climate change.  To do this, we must drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) – gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that trap heat in the atmosphere, raising global temperature and thereby spurring climate change.

Humans have become addicted to burning fossil fuels for energy - a principal cause of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions.  The...
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Sierra Club Canada joins with No Tar Sands Oil Network on letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her trip to Canada
8 Sep, 2010   |   Sierra Club Canada joined with the No Tar Sands Oil network group on a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chair Edward Markey in preparation for their September 2010 trip to Canada. The letter thanks them for their efforts to transition the United States to a clean energy future. It also highlights the importance of stopping the...
Alberta First Nations Groups Taking Legal Action Over Threatened Caribou
8 Sep, 2010   |   EDMONTON — At least two First Nations followed up on their threat of legal action Wednesday in a bid to save dwindling caribou herds in northeastern Alberta. Lawyers for the First Nations communities argue the federal minister of the environment has a statutory duty to protect the animals under the Species At Risk Act. They warned legal action was coming in a letter to Environment...
Are Alberta's Oilsands Developments Illegal?
8 Sep, 2010   |   Results from a study led by University of Alberta scientists, published Aug. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (www.pnas.org), show that mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium and other metals toxic at trace levels are showing up in the Athabasca River watershed in the area of Alberta's oilsands projects. This evidence contradicts results from the Regional Aquatic...
Oil Industry Lowballs Bird Deaths: Study
7 Sep, 2010   |   A new study says birds are likely dying in Alberta oilsands tailings ponds at a rate that is at least 30 times higher than that suggested by the oil industry. The results add weight to arguments that depending on the industry to monitor its own environmental impacts isn't working, said Kevin Timoney, an ecologist who co-authored a paper on the subject with Dalhousie University biologist...
Fort Chipewyan Wants Answers About Cancer Rates
5 Sep, 2010   |   Residents are angry about an Alberta government proposal to have the oilsands industry participate in a health study of cancer rates in this tiny community on the Athabasca River. Industry members would sit on the oversight committee managing the study, according to the proposal. "I don't believe industry should be part of this committee," said Steve Courtoreille, a councillor...
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