Resources

[Milan]

Please use this thread to direct people toward useful resources. For example, information on climate change science or on effective organizing.

[Milan]

For example, here is a presentation I gave on climate change to a group of business students at Ottawa's Algonquin College.

Here are the slides for a five-minute talk I gave at a 'Policy Ignite' event in Ottawa.

[Milan]

Here is a more visually appealing PDF version of the Algonquin slides.

[Milan]

This chart illustrates some important things about winning the fight against climate change.

First, we need to say 'no' to new sources of emissions, whether they are new coal-fired power plants, more air conditioners, or cheap flights.

Second, we need to start saying 'yes' to means of cutting our existing emissions, even when those means are unpopular. For instance, carbon taxes, wind farms, nuclear power plants, etc.

[Milan]

Almost a year ago, Just Do It!, a film that follows the adventures of direct action environmental activists in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, was unleashed on the world. A joyful romp around the ins and outs of our corrupted political system, the film grants its viewers the kind of access to the young (and not-so-young) ideologues battling the man in their bid to save the planet previously only granted to undercover agents working for the Metropolitan Police. It's a great movie, and last week its makers released it for free download and sharing under a Creative Commons license.

[Milan]

There is also a video of me giving the 'Policy Ignite' talk.

[Milan]

We may be able to get a free Flickr Pro account for Toronto 350.

[Milan]

This website and book look like they could contain some useful information:

http://beautifultrouble.org/

They have a page on 'tactics' covering 'specific forms of creative action, such as a flash mob or an occupation':

http://beautifultrouble.org/tactic/

[Milan]

Bill McKibben on the state of the climate change mitigation movement: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Also:

Reader's Guide to Bill McKibben's "Terrifying New Math" in Rolling Stone

[Milan]

Interesting: Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could

[Milan]

Useful article on federal and provincial jurisdiction, as applicable to pipelines:

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/to-connect-the-pipeline-connect-the-dots/article4461040/?service=mobile

[Milan]

Robyn Allen - an economist who has worked in a number of public and private capacities - has some information on her website about the Northern Gateway pipeline:

http://www.robynallan.com/

There is also a video of her speaking on the website of the newspaper The Tyee:

http://thetyee.ca/Video/2012/07/22/RobynAllan/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=230712

[Milan]

This page includes copies of Access to Information requests made by third parties on climate, tar sands or pipeline-related topics:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fqWwlswfMsja1q_4hCAqWz_ALisVyeupymmDhhoJfk/edit

It was prepared by Keith Stewart at Greenpeace.

[Milan]

Kerry: On Eve of Rio+20, An Honest Assessment of Climate Change Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_V-3KJtJM&feature=youtu.be

[Tamara]

Beautiful Trouble just posted all their modules online! Great resources for planning many different types of actions.

[Milan]

Another film which may be of interest:

http://www.whitewaterblackgold.com/

[Milan]

I got this by email:

This email is to address a few questions that came up in CCL meetings and the first Communications Committee meeting...

Some of us met with Kirsty Duncan, MP today.  This is what she said that relates to the "officialness" of Petitions:

1) You should get pp to provide full address info, including postal code, because otherwise it either won't be taken seriously/deemed to be official/or legit (I'm not sure what her exact words were, but you get the idea).

2) DO NOT write anything additional on the petitions, for example, "CCL petition".  You'll null & void the petition doing so. 

I think some people may have already done this, in which case, my suggestion would be to cut that part off with scissors.  Maybe then it'll be ok - that's my personal suggestion.

3) If 1 entry is not deemed (by the Clerk) to be correct/legit/etc. then the whole petition is useless.

We suggested getting 27 signatures instead to address this problem.  Kirsty was fine with that idea.

So please make your petitions have 27 lines.

4) For federal petitions (it may be different for provincial, I'm not sure) she said that we should only aim for 25 signatures, because each time there's 25 it can be read in the House.  

5) There is no duty for MPs to read petitions in the House, but they must table (? - I'm not sure if "table" is the correct word) them.  Basically submit them into the record.

Kirsty graciously offered to draf approximately 4 new petitions and getting Clerk approval for them.  She'll email them to me and me to all of you.  Then let's do our best to get signatures and we need to figure out how we will collect them and distribute them to MPs.

[Milan]

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

[Milan]

From: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

[Milan]

Video of this year's sea ice low:

http://globalchangegov.tumblr.com/post/31734138635/credit-noaa-visualizations-august-global

[Milan]

This is slightly funny:

"During Kent's introduction for Harper's national park announcement in Norman Wells, N.W.T. the environment minister repeated the gaffe when he too botched his lines: calling his boss "the prime minister of cannibal" for the second time this week."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/08/yukon-mp-ryan-leefs-man-eating-blooper.html

[Milan]

This whole series may be of interest:

School of the Environment, University of Toronto
FALL 2012 ENVIRONMENT SEMINAR SERIES
********************************************************************************************
Dear all,

 

Please find below and attached the schedule for 2012 fall term Environment Seminar Series.

Please note that this term the series will be held in two locations as indicated on the attached poster and below.

 

Wednesdays, October 3, 10, 17 & November 7*, 14**, 21, 28
4:10 – 6pm Rm. 1180, 40 St. George Street, Bahen Centre for Information Technology

Thursdays, October 25 & November 1,
4:10 – 6:00pm, Rm. 1011, Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King’s College Rd.

No registration or fee required; all are welcome.

Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and
speakers' bios.

To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa (416-978-3475; environment.seminars@utoronto.ca).

For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.
******************************************************************

WED OCT. 3, 4:10 pm

Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.)

TONY RICCIARDI, Associate Professor Redpath

Museum and the McGill School of Environment, McGill University

Global Swarming and Biosecurity: Why Invasive Species Matter

 

WED OCT 10, 4:10 pm

Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.)

SAPNA SHARMA, Assistant Professor Department of Biology, York University

The Impacts of Climate Change and Invasive Species on Aquatic Ecosystems: A Landscape Perspective

 

WED OCT 17, 4:10 pm

Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.)

HOWARD HU, Director and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

The Environment & Public Health in a Research-Intensive University: Opportunities for Scholarship
in a Crowded, Diverse, Stratified, Hot, Urbanized, Polluted, Thirsty, Hungry and Debt-Ridden World

 

THUR OCT 25, 4:10 pm (n.b. change in date)

(n.b. change in location): SF 1101 (Sandford Fleming building, 10 King's College Road)

LEA BERRANG FORD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography McGill University

Tracking Adaptation: Climate Change, Global Health, and the Methodological Messiness of the Adaptation Challenge

 

THUR NOV 1, 4:10 pm (n.b. change in date)

(n.b. change in location): SF 1101 (Sandford Fleming building, 10 King's College Road)
DON DEWEES, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economic, University of Toronto

What Renewable Power is Affordable?  How Should We Decide?

 

*WED NOV 7, 12:00 noon (n.b. change in time)

Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.)

GAIL KRANTZBERG, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering; Director, Centre for Engineering and
Public Policy, School of Engineering Practice, McMaster University

Great Lakes Great Responsibilities

 

**WED NOV 14, 4:10 pm

(Location to be announced)

DAVID SCHINDLER, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

The Dilemma of Controlling Cultural Eutrophication? (Overfertilisation of freshwaters with nutrients).

 

WED NOV 21, 4:10 pm

Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.)

BARBARA SHERWOOD LOLLAR, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto

Emerging Isotopic Tools in Environmental Forensics and Microbiology

 

WED NOV 28

To be announced.

 

 

 

DIRECTIONS: The Bahen Centre is north of College St. adjacent to the Koffler Student Services Centre.
When entering at 40 St. George, the room is on street level at far (west) end of long main hall, on
the left side. Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St., 1 block west,
north of College St.; please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.

[Milan]

Charts used in my talk (A New Age of Risk) on 22 September at the meeting "Mobilizing Science for Sustainable Development: The Sustainable Development Solutions Network" at Columbia University are available on my web site under Recent Presentations or via the direct link.


Jim Hansen
25 September 2012

[Milan]

[Milan]

Canadian Minister and Shell embarrassed over tar sands at climate conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lEjgPePdUg

[Milan]

[Milan]

Video and slides from Mark Jacobson's presentation: "A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables"

http://burycoal.com/blog/2012/11/05/mark-jacobsons-bold-plan-for-renewables/

[Milan]

The Stern Review, considered by many as the most comprehensive study on the economics of climate change, has calculated that the impacts of unabated climate change would be equivalent to a loss of at least 5 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) each year and could reach as much as 20 per cent of global GDP. This led Stern to conclude that climate change is the “greatest market failure the world has ever seen”, particularly given that the cost of action on climate change mitigation is estimated at only around 1 percent of global GDP.

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). 2009. Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World.

http://www.unep.ch/etb/publications/UNEP%20ADAM%20Climate%20and%20Trade%20Policies/UNEP%20ADAM%20Climate%20and%20Trade%20Policies.pdf

[Milan]

New report commissioned for the World Bank:

November 18, 2012 – Like summer’s satellite image of the melting Greenland ice sheet, a new report suggests time may be running out to temper the rising risks of climate change.

"Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided," (pdf) warns we’re on track for a 4°C warmer world marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise.

Moreover, adverse effects of a warming climate are “tilted against many of the world's poorest regions” and likely to undermine development efforts and global development goals, says the study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, on behalf of the World Bank. The report, urges "further mitigation action as the best insurance against an uncertain future."

[Milan]

There are a variety of 350-related PowerPoint presentations at:

http://www.slideboom.com/people/kmblynn

[Yasmin Parodi]

Report: More Energy Jobs & Less Pollution by: Blue Green Canada

http://bluegreencanada.ca/more-bang-for-our-buck

report can be downloaded at bottom of page 

[pres...@toronto350.org]

Maps showing the area that would be inundated by 25 feet of sea level rise (equivalent to half of Greenland and West Antarctica melting)

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html

[Milan]

We should definitely try to get faith-based groups to endorse our divestment campaign.

[Milan]

Bureaucrats told Peter Kent reforms could undermine environmental protection

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=7639495

[thugsb]

Email received from Megan Leslie, NDP MP:

 

As you most likely know, the Speaker denied my request for an emergency debate in the House of Commons with the aim to begin discussing and developing a national arctic strategy in a democratic fashion. The government has continued to show no interest in beginning to work on such a strategy.  I am not discouraged though and will continue to pressure the government and to organize with Canadians and the international community to address what very well be one of the most pressing issues of our time.

 

I, along with my New Democrats, am very concerned with the increased rate at which the Arctic ice cap is melting. As the Environment Critic for the Official Opposition, I am working closely with NDP MP for Western Arctic, Dennis Bevington on this issue, as we gather stories from northern communities on the ramifications of this melt and call on the government to take action. Dennis and I have drafted a petition calling on the government to take action on Arctic melt. You can find a copy of this petition at http://meganleslie.ndp.ca/post/petitions.  

 

The implications of Arctic melt are multiple and long-reaching, and the situation is getting worse. As you may know, in the past five years the ice cap at the end of summer has shrank from 4.17 square to  3.41 square kilometers, a difference 760 000 square kilometers, an area larger than the Province of Manitoba. The ice cap during summer months is only one half the size that it averaged from 1979 and 2000 and scientists have predicted that the Arctic Ocean could be ice free, during the summer, before 2020. There is no doubt that these troubling statistics have come to be as a consequence of man-made climate change, a fact that has been admitted to by the Minister of the Environment.

 

Melting arctic ice, the result of climate change, will also increase the rate of global warming, because melting ice means warmer arctic waters and the release of carbon deposits frozen at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. Warmer Arctic waters and less Arctic ice affect the path of the jet stream, leading to more extreme weather here in Canada.

 

In recent years we have already began to see disturbing changes the Canadian climate as instances of flooding, forest fires, tornadoes and droughts have all have increased dramatically. This extreme weather will significantly impact our economy, agriculture, fisheries, environment, health and, consequently, the Canadian way of life in the north and across the country, as well as our national security.

You may have recently noticed an increase in the price of food. Last summer our neighbors in the United States experienced the worst drought in a generation, it caused crops to fail, farms to close, and therefore the cost of animal feed and thus meat to increase significantly.

While the Conservatives continue to sell the economic interests of big oil as ‘economic development’, Canadian farmers are hard pressed, our families are paying more for food, natural disasters are on the rise, the ways of life for our indigenous populations are under siege and the federal government remains decisively inactive.

 

What is worrying though is not that the government is refusing to act on an issue so pressing to our national interests, but that they have been systematically interfering with the efforts of Canadian society and the international community to address this problem. The federal government has labeled environmental groups as ‘extremists’ and has reduced funding for scientific research on the environment to bare-bones levels. This has forced the closure of several internationally renowned and relied upon environmental research institutions such as the Canadian Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL), the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) and has forced major layoffs and program closures in others such as the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO). The government also cancelled funding to the Canadian Environmental Network and to the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.

 

On the international front, our government has degraded our reputation significantly not only by withdrawing from the Kyoto Accord but by systematically working to undermine the efforts of the international community in address these problems which clearly call for international solutions. The irony is that this working in the direct interests of Canadians, and will cause the country long-term economic and environmental harm.

 

In 2013, Canada is set to begin a two year term as the chair of the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum where the eight countries with territory in the arctic meet to discuss issues regarding arctic sovereignty, northern socioeconomic development, resource development, indigenous issues and environmental protection. Chairing the Council is a unique opportunity for Canada to redeem its international reputation and to take a leadership role in addressing the implications related to the melting of the ice cap.

 

Thank you again for writing to me, and please let me know if I can answer any more of your questions.

 

Best,

 

Megan

 

 

MEGAN LESLIE

MP Halifax |  Députée, Halifax

Environment critic | Porte-parole en matière d'environnement
New Democratic Party | Nouveau Parti démocratique 

______________________________________________

 

(TEL) 613-995-7614

meganleslie.ca | ndp.ca

[Milan]

Defeatism in the face of climate change is a real danger, I think. I know people who are already giving up on mitigation in order to bet the future of humanity on our ability to geoengineer...

[thugsb]

Really good article.

[thugsb]

We were mentioned on CBC radio's The Current on Dec 20th! http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/

Bill McKibben was interviewed, it's worth a listen. They actually had a UBC-350 student talk on the show.

[Milan]

[Milan]

Article about Do The Math and resistance to fossil fuels:

http://inthesetimes.com/article/14282/protest_tactics_in_a_warming_world/

[Milan]

http://vimeo.com/56724981

[pres...@toronto350.org]

Article: http://inthesetimes.com/article/14282/protest_tactics_in_a_warming_world/

[Milan]

IPCC diagrams: http://pinterest.com/smeasterbrook/ipcc-diagrams/

[Milan]

Agenda and notes from a workshop I attended this Thursday and Friday

[Milan]

Final version forthcoming in: PS: Political Science & Politics. Symposium on climate ethics, edited by Thom Brooks

[Milan]

"With opposition to the proposed Gateway Pipeline ... with the volume of oil from new wells in the U.S. northwest plugging the pipes already running south, the old way - the railway is looking new again, with a proposal for a rail line between the Alberta oilsands and Alaska. Trains can move hundreds-of-thousands of barrels of crude but will they extinguish the environmental opposition or inflame it?"

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/01/16/from-pipeline-to-railway-bc-company-pushes-to-carry-oil-sands-crude-by-rail/

[Milan]

"Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures.

In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then."

The Stern review, published in 2006, pointed to a 75% chance that global temperatures would rise by between two and three degrees above the long-term average; he now believes we are "on track for something like four ". Had he known the way the situation would evolve, he says, "I think I would have been a bit more blunt. I would have been much more strong about the risks of a four- or five-degree rise.""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/27/nicholas-stern-climate-change-davos

[Milan]

This suggests the campaign against pipelines is working to reduce the severity of climate change:

After a harsh lesson in crude economics, new pipelines now biggest issue for country, says Enbridge CEO

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/story.html?id=7898372

EDMONTON - The current rock-bottom price for Canadian crude in the U.S. market is the No. 1 challenge facing the country today, leaving governments short of revenue and possibly leading to a big slowdown in future oilsands investment, the head of pipeline-builder Enbridge said Wednesday.

“Nobody’s making any more oil and gas, so we’d better get a fair value for it,” Al Monaco, Enbridge’s chief executive, told the Alberta Enterprise Group. “There is no more critical issue facing Canada today. Failure to develop a consensus around energy development will have serious consequences, for this generation and generations to come,” he said, adding the difference between Canada and U.S. crudes is costing governments and companies about $75 million each day.

[Milan]

Also worth a look: Toronto had better find a sensible middle ground on climate change

[Monica Resendes]

Adding to the articles Milan sent: 

"US PENSION FUND EYES SELLING OIL HOLDINGS"

"A US pension fund with nearly $2 billion in assets is considering selling its holdings in some of the world's biggest oil and gas companies because of the threat posed by climate change...

In what investor advocacy groups say would be the first divestment of its kind, the Seattle City Employees' Retirement System is to discuss on Thursday a request from Mike McGinn, the city's mayor, to sell out of companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron." ...

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100420292

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Milan <milan.i...@gmail.com> wrote:

Also worth a look: Toronto had better find a sensible middle ground on climate change

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[thugsb]

A chilling article, with some incredible sources in the footnotes. Very well written and well documented. And very scary. Worth reading every word!

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full

[Milan]

HSBC Global Research

Oil & carbon revisited: Value at risk from 'unburnable' reserves

[thugsb]

Great comprehensive article about the situation we're in, and the problems we're facing: 

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full

[Neal Lantela]

Here's something relevant to Line 9: the National Transportation Safety Board's scathing final accident report on the Kalamazoo Line 6b spill: http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2012/PAR1201.pdf

The report does not come down favorably on Enbridge, to put it lightly. A good summary in the Tyee is found here: http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/08/01/NTSB-Flays-Enbridge/

[Milan]

Predicting a low carbon future for Toronto:

Cities are major players in the climate change game. More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and over 70% of global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions can be attributed to cities. A case study of Toronto demonstrates alternative strategies for how the city can implement a low carbon urban infrastructure plan by 2031. Two scenarios are described: one based on Toronto's current policies was found to reduce GHG emissions by 31%; and another suggests aggressive alternatives that could reduce GHG emissions by 71%. Strategies under the aggressive scenario include retrofitting all existing buildings, using renewable heating and cooling systems, and the proliferation of electric cars.

This study is published in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering.

"Our research shows that it is technically possible for cities, even in Canada, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 70% or more in the long-term," says Chris Kennedy, Civil Engineering Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at University of Toronto (U of T). "This is the sort of reduction the international community is calling for so we can avoid the potentially serious consequences of climate change."

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/02/06/predicting.a.low.carbon.future.toronto

http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/story/10.4141/news.2013.02.06.113

[pres...@toronto350.org]

Produced for Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

[pres...@toronto350.org]

Article summarizing the current pipeline proposals coming out of the oil sands:

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/pipe-dreams-a-look-at-canadas-six-leading-pipeline-proposals/article8785031/?service=mobile

[Milan]

Tar Sands Blockade has some resources online including

* PowerPoint Presentation on Tar Sands and the KXL Pipeline
* "What are the Tar Sands" flyer
* "Why we should oppose the KXL" flyer
* "Tar Sands is the Key to Climate Disaster" flyer

http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/tools/

[Milan]

Climate change flowchart from Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2013/03/climate_change_flow_chart_how_to_win_any_global_warming_argument.html

[Milan]

The Deluge

Rapidly advancing technologies are opening up astonishing sources of oil and gas all over the world. We are entering a new era of fossil fuels that is reshaping global economics and politics—and the planet.

http://www.psmag.com/environment/oil-production-peak-oil-fracking-kern-river-north-dakota-brazil-energy-53395/

[Milan]

Berlin event:

I just wanted to let you know about something that happened in Berlin last night where Canadian and Albertan tourism officials were holding an Embassy event. The event is part of a very large tourism trade expo, where Canada is trying to sell the world about our natural beauty and tourism. 

First Nations Chief Bill Erasmus showed up and delivered a letter to tourism officials discussing concerns over Canada's economy and the tar sands (letter is attached, as is a press release). 

This comes at a time when the EU is considering whether tar sands oil meets its standard Fuel Quality Directive, which would put a higher price on unconventional, carbon intensive fuels like Canada's tar sand.

Also, as part of the event, local environmental activists, projected a large message on the side of the Canadian embassy in downtown Berlin. Here's a hi res image: http://www.david-biene.de/transfer/super/dbiene_TarSands_HR_3365.jpg

[Milan]

Interesting:

How the White House thinks about climate change, in 7 charts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/15/how-the-white-house-thinks-about-climate-change-in-7-charts/

[Milan]

Not good:

HTML http://www.nature.com/news/seven-days-8-14-march-2013-1.12582#/research
PDF http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.12582!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/495146a.pdf

Nature | Seven Days

Seven days: 8–14 March 2013

Carbon spike

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rose by 2.59 parts per million (p.p.m.) in 2012, marking the sharpest increase since 1998, according to data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Atmospheric CO₂ concentrations reflect rising global emissions, driven by developing countries, as well as variations in carbon uptake by plants and the oceans. The global average, calculated from measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii and other locations, exceeded 395 p.p.m. in January, representing an increase of 41% from pre-industrial levels.

 

The NOAA data mentioned is at: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/global.html

[Milan]

From the Globe and Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/green-pipeline/article9178812/

[Milan]

Here is one presentation from yesterday's Walter Gordon Symposium on pipelines

[Milan]

This graphic is helpful for scale:

http://toronto350.org/files/1276_gigatons_CO2.png

[thugsb]

More support for divestment: http://www.canada.com/business/Global+climate+efforts+threaten+oilsands+growth+memo+told+Natural+Resources+Minister+Oliver/8202635/story.html

[thugsb]

This is a great resource: http://oilsandsrealitycheck.org/

It's well documented, and could be very useful for our brief.

[thugsb]

Useful for Section4 of the brief:

http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2021

Also, the attached PDF could contain some good stuff.

[thugsb]

http://tarsandssolutions.org/ looks good too

[pres...@toronto350.org]

Introduction: 37 years of oil spills in Alberta

http://globalnews.ca/news/571494/