David Suzuki celebrated his ninetieth birthday this week with a round of media interviews for the launch of his new book “Lessons From A Lifetime.”
Not everyone was celebrating the CBC’s legendary prophet of doom, however. One detractor was Andrew Weaver, former BC Green Party leader and climate modelling expert at the University of Victoria.
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David Suzuki is sad. Just ask him. CBC Radio’s Sunday Magazine was loyally rolling the log last weekend for the former television personality, who observed his 90th birthday on Tuesday — perhaps with some or all of his five children and his double-digit quantum of grandchildren. Suzuki is flogging a new memoir, which some of you will perhaps display on your bookshelves next to 2006’s “David Suzuki: The Autobiography” and 2015’s “Letters to My Grandchildren.” The ecological sage is feeling gloomy about the fate of our planet as he readies to depart: he thinks that despite all his hard work defending the environment, he has fundamentally failed, and the biosphere is now headed irreversibly toward catastrophe.
“Germany made a huge strategic error” by rushing to shut down its nuclear power plant fleet, a mistake which has exacerbated the energy crisis in Europe, the director of the International Energy Agency said.
For decades, David Suzuki has been a familiar face and voice in Canada — known for his rare ability to make complex scientific and environmental issues understandable.
That gift reached millions through The Nature of Things, the iconic CBC television series he began hosting in 1979.
Over time, he became known not only as a scientist and broadcaster, but as a passionate and outspoken environmental advocate — one of the first major public figures to call for urgent action on global warming.
Hey Grok! How many homes does environmentalist David Suzuki own?
… In summary, the most commonly cited figure from detailed reporting is four homes in Canada (with one co-owned), sometimes extended to five including the Australian property. This has been a recurring talking point in debates about his personal carbon footprint versus his public messaging.
In December, the environmental activist group Greenpeace tried to circumvent United States law by appealing to a Dutch court to overturn an American jury’s verdict. Greenpeace was ordered to pay $667 million to Energy Transfer, a pipeline company, after the group tried to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. A trial judge later reduced that amount to $345 million
President Donald Trump’s move to revoke the endangerment finding lit a fire under leaders around the globe, who are lashing out and criticizing the decision to ignore the “scientific backbone” for regulating greenhouse gases.
They scream catastrophe, while overlooking massive coal expansions in the other nations that dwarf America’s emissions. Critics call Trump’s decision a death sentence for the planet, but spare the real giants pumping out pollution without pause.
A flagship eco-village backed by King Charles’s charity now resembles an ‘apocalyptic film’ after being abandoned for more than a decade.
Almost 300 houses were built on a former oil refinery site in Llandarcy, near Neath, South Wales under plans to turn industrial land into a thriving new village.
The King visited the site in 2013 – when he was the Prince of Wales – after the first phase was completed but construction was abandoned soon after.
LOW Carbon Oxford (LCO) describes itself as ‘a network of organisations with a shared vision of Oxford as a low carbon city. Over 40 diverse organisations working together to achieve the city’s very ambitious target of reducing emissions in Oxford by 40 per cent by 2020’.
The LCO website has clearly not updated its calendar, but you get the picture. At the heart of this endeavour, Oxford city council has been one of the leading local authorities (LAs) in the UK’s green agenda for the best part of three decades.
Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it’s never been a high priority for voters, and Trump’s bold expressions of “climate denial” went unpunished by voters.
The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for barely touching the “COP30” global climate summit in Brazil. (PBS gave it nearly 16 minutes, and ten of it was a John Kerry softball interview.)
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even at Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America’s 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It’s gotten to the point that “polar vortex” is a phrase on just about everyone’s lips.
Researchers have discovered trying to make AI reason like humans leads to between a 30x to 700x rise in energy consumption.
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I guess the guy just ran out of stuff to climb.
At the age of five, little Steven Guilbeault was obstinate. He climbed a tree to prevent it from being felled and he refused to come down. Eventually, he returned to earth and the tree met its inevitable fate.
Whether Mark Carney’s sweetheart deal with Alberta will lead to the defeat of his minority government is, admittedly, an interesting question.
But arguably even more interesting (not to mention important) is this question: Will Carney’s deal move us — and the rest of the world — a little closer to climate Armageddon?
Sadly, the answer is, unequivocably, yes.
Last week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. The Labour government announced it would ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, strengthen a windfall tax and accelerate phasing out of fossil-fuel subsidies.
These are not symbolic gestures. They are an acknowledgment that the global energy system is shifting and that mature economies must shift with it.
Under the United Kingdom’s Communist-Islamist alliance energy impoverishment is a feature not a bug.
Besides Carney is at best playing a long game, he wants Canada desperately poor as well.
Is the American Left finally waking up from its decadeslong climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom.
