A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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Yikes. Not a feedback loop I would have predicted.
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · yesterdayNot sure if @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org looked into this as a slightly different category, but very large scale fires can have a notable impact eg 3% loss over 5mths in North America & Europe due to Canadian wildfires in 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
“Adults should be able to handle this.” 🤷♂️
Kees van der Leun@sustainable2050.bsky.social · 3d agoBut if we don't reduce emissions to zero, the situation will get even worse, and eventually get out of hand with tipping points being crossed. So, logic has it that we need to reduce emissions to zero. Adults should be able to handle this. 2/
If your website doesn't have a simple, "Reject All" option for cookies and you force people into multiple clicks to unselect certain options, you're being an online a-hole.
Decline Denied
ALT: Decline Denied
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Wrote about Nolan's Odyssey and what it tells about both the Bronze Age Collapse and our own age of wreckers and destroyers. Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds: www.patreon.com/PastLivesMed...
Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds | Past Lives
For Past Lives subscribers, an audio version of this episode will appear on the bonus feed this coming Thursday. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
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A lot of folks like to shout that climate change is “worse than scientists predicted!” But that’s not really true. It’s largely unfolding just as the science has predicted for many decades. My colleague, the brilliant Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains…
Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨 Scientists have been warning for more than a century that catastrophic weather events were inevitable if humanity kept emitting GHG's. But is it worse than even they expected? Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social shares her expert perspective in our latest Insights: https://bit.ly/4wsYPMw
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”
I feel seen (although I'm from northern Ontario).
Graeme MacKay@mackaycartoons.bsky.social · 6d agoThe comic series is my treat to fellow GenXers. We had to put up with 50’s nostalgia back in the day. Here’s my showcase of 1970s-80s nostalgia based in southern Ontario. Enjoy! mackaycartoons.net/young-doug-f...
Heat pumps for the win! Anticipate voter anger - which might end up increasing support for fossil fuel lackeys in public life - by spending on heat pumps to reduce emissions (mitigation) *and* to provide cooling during our longer, hotter summers (adaptation).
Strategic Climate Risks Initiative@climate-risk.bsky.social · 6d agoHow do we prevent extreme weather from fuelling political paralysis? @laurielaybourn.bsky.social Executive Director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI), warns that we are facing a dangerous political paradox.
Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU&t=599s
Town of Cobalt Yvonne McKague Housser c. 1935
This is why the fossil fuel lackeys in the GOP need to keep droning on about “forest management”.
Covering Climate Now@coveringclimatenow.org · 2w agoAmericans are making the connection between climate change and this summer’s droughts, floods, extreme heat, wildfires, and toxic smoke. Majorities of likely voters say extreme weather events are being “worsened by climate change” and 61% say that extreme weather is increasing.
Either they cast an actual cyclops or they get a SAG waiver and gouge out a willing actor's eye. Anything less and I'm with Elon Musk in calling bullshit on this Nolan flick.
This day the Parliament kept a fast for the present unseasonable weather.
The good news here is that, if the US can renege on its agreements at will, so can we. We'll just need to pick the right time to exercise our bad faith.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w agoThe new revenue-sharing model over the Gordie Howe International Bridge will see Canada repay its debt, but only after net revenue is split with the United States over the first 15 years, a senior government source confirmed to the Star. Read this story for free:
On this date in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott open the 1st women's rights convention, at which those gathered (Frederick Douglass being among them) put forward a Declaration of Sentiments, declaring that "all men AND WOMEN are created equal."
18 July 1930 | An Italian Jew, Sami Modiano, was born on Rhodes Island (then part of Italy). In #Auschwitz from 18 August 1944 No. B-7456 He was liberated on 27 January 1945. Today, he turns 96.
I thought this was Earth for a moment. “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening” Mood
Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 3w agoTitan 2004-OCTOBER-25 - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/JhFwE1
The politicians lying to you about “forest management” and “arson”, to distract you from the climate crisis and their culpability, are counting on this ignorance.
The Horse Knuckler@horseknuckler.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm a bit embarrassed I've lived in Michigan my entire life and never really understood the level of Empty northern Ontario is
“You cannot have a fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement in a forest you were never managing.” That you cannot manage. “The boreal is on the order of three million square kilometers. You are not going to thin or prescribe-burn your way across it”
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3w agoOver at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....
Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....
Here comes the "forest management" BS again. Canada's boreal forests occupy about 1.2 billion acres. By all means, bring some rakes and have at it. We'll get anything from these fossil lackeys but honest talk about the root of the problem. www.pew.org/en/research-...
Fast Facts: Canada’s Boreal Forest
Since 2000, The Pew Charitable Trusts has been working with partners in Canada to protect the boreal, the world’s largest remaining intact forest ecosystem. Here’s why its conservation is vital for th...
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Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
I've been reading @drkatemarvel.bsky.social's brilliant book Human Nature. I'm now at the truly alarming chapter on fear while still feeling the anger prompted by the misinformation / refusal to acknowledge climate change described in the chapter on anger. In short, Binface's message is timely.
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y agoUnder a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....
I enjoyed listening to Bill McKibben on Ezra Klein's podcast. Its refreshing to hear a strong case for a future of clean energy abundance and highlight a lot of positive energy trends. That said, there are a few points where I'd add nuance to Bill's arguments. www.nytimes.com/2026...
10 July 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Emilia Barat, was born. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
