Bill Nye explains global warming to adults: “The planet is on f***ing fire”
“We’re going to need a lot of different policies working in tandem and we have to take action right now,” the host warned. “But you don’t have to just take that from me. Instead, I’m happy to say that Bill Nye has actually agreed to help drive the urgency home at this point by actually doing one of his enjoyable, light-hearted demonstrations. So Bill, please, please, do you have a fun experiment for us?”
State of emergency declared, evacuations ordered amid central B.C. wildfire
As of Saturday night, it was estimated to be about 260 hectares in size and was considered to be zero per cent contained.
Activists claim victory as Trudeau’s oil tanker ban passes Commons | CBC News
Bill C-48, which passed the House of Commons along party lines
and is now headed to the Senate for its second legislative phase, was
introduced after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet vetoed
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline — a project that would have carried
crude from Alberta through northern B.C. to a tanker terminal in
Kitimat for export to Asia.
Landmark UN plastic waste pact gets approved, but not by U.S.
An agreement on tracking thousands of types of plastic waste emerged
Friday at the end of a two-week meeting of UN-backed conventions on
plastic waste and toxic, hazardous chemicals.
IEA Flags ‘Deeply Worrying’ Stagnation in Renewable Energy Growth – The Energy Mix
New capacity additions totalled 177 gigawatts (GW) last year, the
same as in 2017, Renewables Now reports. To meet the targets in the 2015
Paris Agreement based on the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario, new capacity would have to average more than 300 GW per year between 2018 and 2030.