There was a remarkably salient moment at a recent journalism conference in Seoul where participants from 50 countries debated climate change and its effect on both the literal and political landscape of the world.
The consensus, albeit a rough one, was that the public — from Azerbaijan to Zaire — was exhausted by the issue. It was tough to get their attention and people increasingly tuned out, even though in some cases their homes had literally been blown away.
Infamous environmental activist David Suzuki has issued a stark warning to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, calling for the complete dismantling of Canada’s fossil fuel pipeline system to avert catastrophic climate change.
Speaking on theThursday, episode of CBC’s Front Burner podcast with host Jayme Poisson, Suzuki described the continued expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure as “moral and economic madness.”
Ex-pilot called himself messiah on climate-change mission, day before alleged hijack
The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a “messenger of Allah” sent to save humanity from climate change.
A 39-year-old man with the same name has now been charged with hijacking, constituting terrorism, over the incident on Tuesday that saw Norad scramble F-15 fighter jets before the light plane safely landed.
h/t Auntie Polly
It appears we have elected a federal government that is not only eager to support a new oil pipeline in British Columbia, but may end up throwing our electric vehicle ambitions into reverse—if not into the ditch.
This could be hasty and unduly negative, but Prime Minister Mark Carney has so far shown far less interest in the clean technologies of the future than in roads, railways, ports and pipelines for his “major infrastructure” projects.
The most optimistic speculation is that his government will extend deadlines for EV adoption by a few years in response to pressure from the Canadian auto sector. Automakers argue, reasonably, that the Justin Trudeau-era decree—that 20 per cent of new cars sold in Canada must be zero-emissions by 2026—is undoable for a variety of reasons, with one of them being the Trump administration’s sharp turn away from electrification and back to gas-powered behemoths.
Another EV evangelist shorted out of reality.
Eight residents in northeast British Columbia have filed complaints with the Canadian Federal Competition Bureau, accusing the David Suzuki Foundation of misuse of imagery in anti-natural gas campaigns.
The residents allege a two-decade old photo — showing natural gas wells in Wyoming — was falsely portrayed a current development in B.C.’s Montney formation, a major gas-producing region.
We celebrated Canada this week, so I wanted to start with your reflections. What’s top-of-mind for David Suzuki during this year’s national celebration?
First of all, I’m grateful to Donald Trump for keeping Pierre Poilievre out of office because that’s an amazing thing, but the overarching thing is that we’re in deep trouble.
As far as I’m concerned, Mark Carney is the most well-informed prime minister on climate change that we’ve had. We all celebrated when Justin Trudeau came in after Stephen Harper. Trudeau went to Paris and signed the agreement to limit the rise of global temperatures, but then he bought a pipeline two and a half years later.
A throng of Hollywood celebrities who’ve spent years lecturing about the peril we all face from climate change, hopped on private jets set for Venice where Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s three-day wedding extravaganza took place.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir.
For more than a month, environmental activists had been living on a platform some 80-feet up the trunk of that tree in an attempt to stop logging in the emerald foothills of the Olympic Peninsula. They had rigged a dunk-tank platform to cables that connected to a jumble of logs and brush strung across a dirt road on state land.
If anyone tried to break through the blockade, the platform could fall.
Now someone arrived who was ready to try.
In 2013, Sir David Attenborough, the renowned nature expert and one of the greatest filmmakers ever, famously declared humanity a pestilence.
“We are a plague on the Earth,” he postulated. “It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so.” His recommendation was that the world needed a smaller population. “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde [of people].”
Senators met yesterday for a subcommittee hearing to discuss claims that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), foreign donors, and leftist legal activism are behind a “systematic campaign” to dismantle American energy dominance.
Throughout the hearing, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, emphasized how foreign funding and activist litigation are undermining U.S. energy infrastructure, posing a national security threat. His four Democrat colleagues repeatedly dismissed the concerns as a “conspiracy theory,” instead focusing on energy costs and “global warming.”
In Berlin, those who fail to comply with the green agenda could lose their company. That is what the new legal framework promoted by the CDU and SPD in the German capital’s Senate stipulates. Under the label of Vergesellschaftungsrahmengesetz (framework law on collectivization), the coalition has agreed on an instrument that would allow the State to expropriate private companies if, in the opinion of the political authorities, they fail to meet climate goals or invest “too little” in the public interest.
Small wonder Carney wants to hook up with these Nazis.
Got Greta Fatigue?
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the world’s most annoying climate doomster, Greta Thunberg, has swapped her acid-rain coat and melting glacier galoshes for a stylish keffiyeh and a Gaza-riffic t-shirt.
Elizabeth Weise at USA Today decided to comment on the anarchy that’s currently raging across Los Angeles, and here’s her two cents: if you’re going to light other people’s cars on fire, at least make sure it’s not an electric vehicle, because that would be bad for the environment and your fellow rioters. (On the contrary: perhaps we can encourage them to stand as close as possible to the flames and take big deep breaths?)
What’s happening in Los Angeles is not a protest. It is a riot.
Violent mobs are attacking law enforcement, torching cars, and wreaking havoc in the streets because ICE did its job.
This is what happens when you turn a blind eye to lawlessness.
pic.twitter.com/aOLFEkaf38— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) June 9, 2025
Greta Thunberg is now on a plane out of Israel along with three other ‘freedom flotilla’ activists deported after they reportedly refused to watch footage of Hamas atrocities carried out on October 7, 2023 in Israel.
The crew of the Madleen ship, who had planned to sail to Gaza to deliver aid, were scooped up by Israeli Navy boats well before they reached shore yesterday and towed to the port of Ashdod.
Eight of the 12 activists refused to sign deportation papers and are being detained pending a court hearing. Thunberg and three others signed the documents and are now on a flight out of Israel.
Sorry, Greta Thunberg. You weren't kidnapped. Shiri Bibas was kidnapped. pic.twitter.com/7iEEnGKa2W
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 10, 2025
Greta Thunberg will be made to watch footage of Oct 7, say Israelis
Israel’s military has been ordered to show Greta Thunberg footage of Hamas’s Oct 7 2023 attack on southern Israel.
Israel Katz, the defence minister, on Monday congratulated the IDF for its interception of an aid boat carrying Ms Thunberg and 11 other activists before it could reach Gaza.
After confirming the passengers would be deported back to their home countries once the boat reached the Israeli port of Ashdod, he said he had instructed troops to “show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre”.
