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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3h

On the other hand, Enbridge seems to be acknowledging how carbon pricing is intended to work.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 8h

The NDP don't have a strong climate plan. And they were against the fuel levy/rebate. Which only the 20% most wealthy were out of pocket for.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 8h

Oil and gas are 31% of our emissions. The emissions cap would be an indication that he requires reductions in that sector. And of course industry and future governments could still ignore/rescind it. He is counting on CCS - which is costly and questionable in terms of results.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you. Though this is one of the few things you've done that I agree with.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 23h

You are pushing fossil fuels and rolling back climate policy. And Bill C-5 lets you ignore environmental legislation. So I don't believe you.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 23h

I was pleasantly surprised that a recent episode of CBC's Ideas "So .... Who wants a pipeline" asked which IPCC scenario / global temperature they were aiming for. Jackie Forrest said 2.6C. I wish all stakeholders, politicians and yes, citizens were asked that question. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

I have two local grocers I go to largely for organic / vegetarian / bulk products and they are more expensive including for products that overlap with the 'mainstream' grocers. I'll still buy some of those products there, depending how rich I feel :)

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I watched the video. I don't think it actually based on broad analysis - it leaves out many other factors.
www.dal.ca/sites/agri-f...

Canada's Food Price Report 2025

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, but I also think it is much easier said than done to reduce the cost of food given all of the factors that are causing the price to go up. Including climate change.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Per the article, commitments mean nothing over time. Legislation can be carved out or removed. I've seen absolutely no evidence that the new federal government will put policies in place to meet the previous federal government's commitments.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that's more or less what I was pointing out. Carney is supporting fossil fuels as much, possibly more than, clean energy. He is indeed using CCS as a distracting ploy.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

LNG is not clean. The future is mostly wind, solar, storage. Twice as much has been invested in non fossil fuel energy than in fossil fuels in the last year (or several years). Even Carney noted that.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

That program is also aimed at carbon capture and storage. The website for the provider features a pump jack at the top
www.amii.ca/ai-pathways-...

AI Pathways: Energizing Canada's Low-Carbon Workforce — Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 1d

What global temperature are the majority of Canadians aiming for?

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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 2d

AI is being used to improve weather and climate prediction... But not in a make-you-dumber, planet-destroying, chatgpt kinda way.

New vid, ft. my best segue yet, here:

youtu.be/7gCbK1f0Zjc

Thanks to Kirstine Dale at the @metoffice.gov.uk for explaining how tech can enhance weather prediction ⛅

Is AI about to revolutionise weather & climate forecasting?

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Fire regime changes in Canada: an update

Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

I'm more than middle aged and am working up the courage to ditch Windows 10 and install Linux 😱

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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · 2d

The PM said additional national interest projects will be announced in the coming weeks. This has us thinking about projects that prepare Canada for the future, not set us further apart. What national projects would you like to see funded in Canada?

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

BTW, Jim Stanford was at the Canadian Senate Finance committee meeting and he also noted that Canada has to do something to reverse that Canadian investment in the US - especially our pension plans.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure how it is a 'smear'. As a Canadian, it was offputting for our PM to be promoting Canadian private investment *into* the US. On top of what we may well pay into US military-industrial complex.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3d

Not to mention pushing Keystone XL

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 3d

NEW – Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/yPWMH59

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief

On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday Trump said Americans don't want to buy Canadian made vehicles. So our opening up to EU and Chinese vehicles shouldn't be an issue with it comes to CUSMA.

And at this point, I'm just talking about imports while we cross the manufacturing bridge

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Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, the rhetoric is easy to discount. I rarely hear him mention combatting climate change. And his actions to date imply he doesn't see it as that strong of a moral obligation. Meanwhile, North America will be left behind in the transition.

Eileen Kinley 🇨🇦 @eileenottawa.bsky.social · 3d

Given American automakers, along with our governments, are wallowing on that clear future, the least Carney can do is facilitate imports of more affordable EVs into our country to tide us over.

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