The fiscal fantasy of fossil fuels. Great new piece from @chrishatch.bsky.social on the brutal math of fossil fuel expansion... www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/13/o...
The fiscal fantasy of fossil fuels
Governments spend billions fighting fires, rebuilding communities, compensating disaster victims and treating the growing health burden from climate change. Then those same governments spend billions ...
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Interesting how quickly the conversation has changed. A few years ago, batteries were dismissed as too expensive. Today, they're helping outcompete gas plants and reshape electricity grids around the world: shrlnk.ca/s/dlJFJicG #ClimateNews #EnergyStorage
Beautiful essay 👇 "Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin skin of atmosphere that differentiates us from any other rock plummeting through the void." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/o...
The thin line between everything and nothing
One of the most important aspects of the images beamed home from space is one we are only beginning to grasp. Look at the pictures, and look again. Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin ...
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"Look at the pictures... Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin skin of atmosphere... it is no wonder at all that our current spew of more than 100 million tonnes of CO2 every day has turned out very badly." @chrishatch.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/o... #climatecrisis
The thin line between everything and nothing
One of the most important aspects of the images beamed home from space is one we are only beginning to grasp. Look at the pictures, and look again. Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin ...
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Climate scientists have landed on a new metric for understanding the climate crisis, and it's a sobering way of looking at the mounting effects of burning oil and gas.
The scariest climate statistic
It isn't the target set out in the Paris agreement, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere or the record-breaking string of record-hot years. Now, climate scientists have released a figure that sounds...
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Do you notice politicians "sidestepping outright climate denial while opposing #climateaction"? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/16/o... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #yyj @chrishatch.bsky.social in @nationalobserver.com
The fine art of infinite delay
Instead of sowing doubt about the science of climate change and denying the need for a green transition, the industries and their promoters play for time. They might even acknowledge the need for chan...
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Episode 4 of our 6 Markers podcast highlights the importance of honest climate communication. Erin Blondeau, Donya Ziaee, Chris Hatch, and Seth Klein discuss truth-telling, the media landscape, and what leadership requires. 🎧Listen to Episode 4: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
Hands down the best analysis I've read of last week's Fed-Alberta energy agreement. Trust me, @chrishatch.bsky.social's piece will make you both laugh and cry 👇 Danielle Smith’s love tap www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Danielle Smith’s love tap
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come listen to two very smart people (@maxfawcett.bsky.social & @chrishatch.bsky.social) talk all things pipeline while I guide the conversation link below to register👇🏽
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🚗🔋 TIL that Nepal and Ethiopia are the two countries following Norway the closest in EV adoption. “Ethiopia got sick of importing gasoline and gas-burning cars. In 2024, it became the world’s first country to ban the import of combustion engine vehicles.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/o...
Cheaper, cleaner — and not available here
Even as we rail in outrage at Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian government has imposed our own punishingly high tariffs on Chinese vehicles — high enough to ensure they are kept out of Canada and t...
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In the jargon of climate scientists, the sinks are failing. Or, in lay terms, nature is sick from cleaning up our crap. Great piece here by @chrishatch.bsky.social: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/20/o...
A great unravelling: carbon soars, nature falters
Last year, the global concentration of carbon dioxide jumped by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) and reached 424 ppm, the biggest jump since modern measurements began in the 1950s. The WMO says the blanket...
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In landmark ruling, World Court judges unanimously agree that countries must tackle fossil fuels — both burning & extraction — and that failing to curb climate change compromises human rights. Great summary of last week's ruling by @chrishatch.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/28/o...
The World Court throws f-bombs — and lots of 'em
With its landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice has finally offered its first opinion on questions about climate change, concluding that rich, high-polluting countries have a particular o...
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Recommended read from @chrishatch.bsky.social on this year's 🇨🇦 wildfires... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...
The 'why' of wildfires
There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.
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As Europe swelters under lethal heat and children are swept away from their summer camp in a flash flood in Texas that rose 20 feet in 90 minutes, it’s sobering to realize this month that we are closer to 2050 than 2000. www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Halfway to 2050
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Important read from @chrishatch.bsky.social: "25 years to rewire our energy systems, reimagine our cities, and restructure our relationship with the planet. The scale of the transformation now required is staggering, but so is the cost of delay." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/o...
Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be
This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with the same span in which we had vowed to accomplish what may ...
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Decarbonized oil doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons. @chrishatch.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/o...
There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"
The decarbonized doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of our new PM, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons but nevertheless talked about “decarboniz...
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A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom from @chrishatch.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/17/o...
A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom
The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That’s not a typo — we’re looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired th...
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He's leading in the leadership race and could be Canada's next PM. Take five minutes to read "Mark Carney's Climate Cred", another excellent article by @chrishatch.bsky.social of the @nationalobserver.com #climatecrisis #energytransition #fossilfuels @markcarney2025.bsky.social
Should we even bother talking about climate change? The answer is yes. (Don’t let the deniers take you off message, people are motivated to protect what they love) @chrishatch.bsky.social digs into the research. www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Should we even bother talking about climate change?
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Climate fiction isn't always dark or dystopian; some of it offers solutions. Some is even fun. For whatever kind of reader, @chrishatch.bsky.social has aggregated the best cli-fi books www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/06/o...
The best climate fiction for readers coming to terms with climate fact
There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite co...
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This weekend's Zero Carbon column by @chrishatch.bsky.social offers one of the clearest explanations for why global climate financing isn't charity, but rather reparations, that I've read. Highly recommended! www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Climate reparations aren't charity, they're a responsibility
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