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Bentley
@bigclimate.bsky.social
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Host of @calgaryclimatehub.ca 's A Climate of Change zoomcast and The #ClimateLens podcast, Alberta Regional Organizer for Climate Reality Canada. Posts are my own. #yyc #ClimateChange #ClimateSky
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 16h
Q: Which of Canada's leaders understand how a simple graph works?

A: All of them and NONE OF THEM CARE
#ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
a graph detailing how we Calgarians always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and how we are now regularly in the 100s. Alongside the photo In front are Carney, Nenshi, Danielle Smith and Poilievre grinning & wearing cowboy hats
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 3m
Hey @naheednenshi.bsky.social I drew you a picture. You're welcome. Do better. #abpoli #Nenshi #ClimateChange bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 18m
Sometimes you really do have to draw a picture for folks. #ClimateChange #yyc #ClimateSky
Image 1: Western Canada showing temperatures in the 20s on October 7th, 2025 Image 2: AQHI off the charts at 10+ for hazardous smoke in Calgary’s air & a graph detailing how we always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and are now regularly in the 100s
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 7m
Especially if they're Canadian politicians. #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
a graph detailing how we Calgarians always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and how we are now regularly in the 100s. + Apocalyptic wildfire scene out of Manitoba, headline reads "MORE PIPELINES = MORE THIS." Alongside the photo In front are Carney, Nenshi, Danielle Smith and Poilievre all grinning & wearing cowboy hats
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Chris Geroux @cgeroux.bsky.social · 15m
It always bothers me when people get excited about loosing winter. For me it is profoundly sad. I have so many happy childhood memories of the winter, and now we get so few days with snow on the ground.
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 16m
lonely old former local real estate mogul as far as I can tell but he's espoused O&G triumphalism at me a few times.
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 18m
Sometimes you really do have to draw a picture for folks. #ClimateChange #yyc #ClimateSky
Image 1: Western Canada showing temperatures in the 20s on October 7th, 2025 Image 2: AQHI off the charts at 10+ for hazardous smoke in Calgary’s air & a graph detailing how we always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and are now regularly in the 100s
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 25m
Excited and oblivious
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 54m
Guy in elevator yesterday, excitedly:
"Maybe we'll skip winter this year!"

Me:
"We've skipped a few now."

#yyc #ClimateChange
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 56m
On October 7th, 2025 we hit 20 degrees in Calgary. #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 16h
Q: Which of Canada's leaders understand how a simple graph works?

A: All of them and NONE OF THEM CARE
#ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 56m
On October 7th, 2025 we hit 20 degrees in Calgary. #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 16h
Q: Which of Canada's leaders understand how a simple graph works?

A: All of them and NONE OF THEM CARE
#ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi #ClimateSky
a graph detailing how we Calgarians always used to breathe only around 12 hours of smokey air per year and how we are now regularly in the 100s. Alongside the photo In front are Carney, Nenshi, Danielle Smith and Poilievre grinning & wearing cowboy hats
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Nature Canada @naturecanada.bsky.social · 2h
This fall, Nature Canada’s Nature on the Hill will bring together caring Canadians like you (representing over 1,200 nature groups in our Nature Network) on Parliament Hill to be a voice for nature.

DM us your name and email if you want to be kept updated!

#NatureOnTheHill #NatureBuildsOurNation
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 2h
Renewables Drive A Stake Through The Cold, Dark Heart Of King Coal - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/10/07/r...
Renewables Drive A Stake Through The Cold, Dark Heart Of King Coal - CleanTechnica
Ember reports that renewables provided more electricity to the world than coal in the first six months of the year.
cleantechnica.com
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 2h
Hawaii Hits Milestone in Rooftop Solar - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/10/07/h...
Hawaii Hits Milestone in Rooftop Solar - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hawaii has the highest rate of rooftop solar power adoption in the US, on a per capita basis. It makes sense, as the power gr...
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 1h
“Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way?” That truck is climate change.

Great to speak with @theguardian.com’s Maya Goodfellow about my new book, #RunLikeAGirl.
Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism
Catherine McKenna’s memoir delves into thorny parts of being in office including death threats and being referred to as ‘climate Barbie’
www.theguardian.com
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1h
It will be fascinating to see these once in a century events (global energy transformation and total destruction of a major oil and gas supplier) occur simultaneously and the net impact on global oil and gas prices…
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1h
The extremely fast anticipated collapse in global demand during 2026 due to fast electrification and solar PV roll out in most African nations, India, China, Pakistan, and most South American nations will not be as obvious if Ukraine succeeds in destroying Russia’s entire fossil fuel supply chain.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2h
I like that this oil industry trade publication can no longer ignore the obvious but also uses a pun.

Anyway, going to be a bad year for your oil investments.
headline: Glut punch: policy, geopolitics fuel 2026 oversupply concerns
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1h
Jamelle Bouie, welcome to Life After Cars.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h
would you like to live multi-modally?
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...
How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146702...
Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca
At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 18h
"If you build just for cars, you're going to get cars. If you build it, they will come. It's called #InducedDemand. We've all seen the image of LA highways that keep building more lanes & they just keep getting jammed with traffic. Has there ever been a time where Calgary didn't have congestion?"
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 21d
The data on #Bikelanes are clear & consistent: GREAT for cities in just about every metric you can think of. So why are politicians across Canada attacking them? We dig in with @bikecalgary.bsky.social's Doug Clark & Alyssa Quinney

PODCAST: www.podcastics.com/episode/3835...
#yyc #yyccc #yycbike
Divide & Conquer: The B.S. Against Bike Lanes
Build barriers between cyclists and cars, not between people and their neighbors.
www.podcastics.com
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 19h
In which I call out the #PipelinePimps clear across the political spectrum in Canada. Stop wondering why people are either disengaged entirely or gravitating towards dangerous populism. Our choice isn't a choice at all
#ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Nenshi medium.com/@stevebentle...
Climate Cowardice: A Pox On Both Your Houses
There’s a majority in Alberta, Canada, America & all over the world that wants more and better Climate Action but politics as usual doesn’t…
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 1d
You show me a bad idea for #ClimateChange in Canada and I'll show you full bipartisan support for it across the political spectrum. That's what's broken. Them. #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d
The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions, or Canadians’ tax dollars, writes Janetta McKenzie www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...
A strange start for “climate competitiveness”
The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions — or Canadians’ tax dollars.
www.nationalobserver.com
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lissa @unraveledlissa.bsky.social · 5h
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
www.cbc.ca
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h
The three biggest Canadian fire seasons in the nearly 50-year record happened in 2023, 2025, and 1995.

Before that? Pre-satellite burnt area data is presumably less reliable (certainly exists), but there are some convincing proxies: bsky.app/profile/bigc...
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · 27d
Don't let anyone gaslight you that this is normal. It's not. #YYC #Smoke #Wildfire #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
Calgary wildfire smoke on the hundreds/year where historically it was just 12 hrs/year
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🇨🇦Peislandergirl (she/her) @peislandergirl.bsky.social · 13h
Summer reappeared for one day only - we took advantage of it! 😍 #yycbike @seumasb.bsky.social
Bridge into Inglewood in autumn splendor. River and mountains. Path and bike. Person riding a bike on a wetlands bridge.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 13h
As a reminder, whether it be $95 or $110 per tonne, the “policy price” for industrial emissions is largely moot right now.

Emitters can pay for compliance using emissions offsets and performance credits, which are currently trading bilaterally for under $29 per tonne.
TIER emission performance credit settlement prices from NGX/ICE.
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