Shuswap Climate Action Society
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We've made the switch to Bluesky hoping to freely share local and national Canadian climate news, information and events from reliable sources in a friendly community of people concerned about climate change.
Insurance premiums in Canada are also increasing rapidly, following the same trend as in the US. Apparently, that industry is following the science and ignoring the deniers.
Another great read from @scrawford.bsky.social: "We can’t rely on the insurance industry to be the only risk-signaler for homes. These companies may be tracking hurricanes and wildfires, and translating those risks into higher premiums, but they are likely to exclude saltwater intrusion coverage."
New research shows climate risk is already hitting insurance and home values. And that’s only part of the story. Some serious hazards, like saltwater intrusion, often aren’t covered at all -- and aren’t yet priced into housing markets. Column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/new-data-s...
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Insurance premiums in Canada are also increasing rapidly, following the same trend as in the US. Apparently, that industry is following the science and ignoring the deniers.
Join us Thursday Nov 27 for an online session that delves into the latest on recycling in BC and have your questions answered. Guest speaker Carmen Fennell is with Recycle BC overseeing residential recycling programs throughout the province. Go to our website to register.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us Thursday Nov 27 for an online session that delves into the latest on recycling in BC and have your questions answered. Guest speaker Carmen Fennell is with Recycle BC overseeing residential recycling programs throughout the province. Go to our website to register.
www.shuswapclimate.org
www.shuswapclimate.org
Our government should be embarrassed if not ashamed... 😞
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Our government should be embarrassed if not ashamed... 😞
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Great to see @davidebybc.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social in this Honest Government Ad about fracked gas exports. Just in time for the #BCNDP convention! youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?... #bcpoli #cdnpoli @dogwoodbc.bsky.social
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Great to see @davidebybc.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social in this Honest Government Ad about fracked gas exports. Just in time for the #BCNDP convention! youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?... #bcpoli #cdnpoli @dogwoodbc.bsky.social
Remembrance Day is our opportunity to honour those who served, sacrificed, who returned forever changed, and those who never came home. 🌺
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Remembrance Day is our opportunity to honour those who served, sacrificed, who returned forever changed, and those who never came home. 🌺
Recent polls indicate a majority of Canadians support the government to either maintain or increase federal climate action at 85%, over two-thirds (67%) agree that climate action should be a high priority. Additionally, 75% of Canadians agree that collective action can limit climate change!
I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Recent polls indicate a majority of Canadians support the government to either maintain or increase federal climate action at 85%, over two-thirds (67%) agree that climate action should be a high priority. Additionally, 75% of Canadians agree that collective action can limit climate change!
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"Truckloads of money available. Just after Gates published his new missive, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #TheFutureIsEqual #TaxTheRich
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"Truckloads of money available. Just after Gates published his new missive, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #TheFutureIsEqual #TaxTheRich
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🌎 Power is in the room. Truth isn’t yet.
As the Guardian maps out the “major players” at #COP30, it’s clear what’s missing: the people living the transition every day.
We need a Belém Action Mechanism #BAM - not another round of empty speeches.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As the Guardian maps out the “major players” at #COP30, it’s clear what’s missing: the people living the transition every day.
We need a Belém Action Mechanism #BAM - not another round of empty speeches.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Who are the major players at Cop30 and what do they want?
Delegates from global giants and smaller nations expected to clash at Brazilian summit over how to tackle the climate crisis and who should pay
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🌎 Power is in the room. Truth isn’t yet.
As the Guardian maps out the “major players” at #COP30, it’s clear what’s missing: the people living the transition every day.
We need a Belém Action Mechanism #BAM - not another round of empty speeches.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As the Guardian maps out the “major players” at #COP30, it’s clear what’s missing: the people living the transition every day.
We need a Belém Action Mechanism #BAM - not another round of empty speeches.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While BC had rather normal temperatures, just look at the rest of Canada! On average it was 3.7C above the 1991-2020 normal.... yikes!
🔥🔥🔥Canada with their warmest October on record. Departure from 1991-2020 normal is +3.7C.🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
While BC had rather normal temperatures, just look at the rest of Canada! On average it was 3.7C above the 1991-2020 normal.... yikes!
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team of Canadian engineers on October 28 unveiled a fully electrified home
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half
Engineers in Canada have built a fully electrified solar-powered home that cuts electricity bills by 45% and carbon emissions by 55%.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
team of Canadian engineers on October 28 unveiled a fully electrified home
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions.
Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...
Turn climate anxiety into action. So many examples out there. And "Do not give up until it happens"!
New #WomenLeadingOnClimate episode drops today! This week, I climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com and I talk about how to talk to real people about climate in a real way that gives them hope & motivates them to act... Listen, share & subscribe.
www.womenleadingonclimate.org/our-podcast
www.womenleadingonclimate.org/our-podcast
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Turn climate anxiety into action. So many examples out there. And "Do not give up until it happens"!
This should be yet another urgent wakeup call to all of us! There are solutions and we must advocate to all citizens and levels of government to do much more to address the climate crisis!
"The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin said continued emissions of CO2 from human activities and an upsurge from wildfires were responsible, as well as reduced CO2 absorption by “sinks” such as land ecosystems and the ocean – in what threatens to be a vicious climate cycle." wmo.int/news/media-c...
Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024
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October 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This should be yet another urgent wakeup call to all of us! There are solutions and we must advocate to all citizens and levels of government to do much more to address the climate crisis!
The news of growth in renewable energy outpacing that of coal for the first time this year provides more evidence that the world can transition to a clean energy future.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
ember-energy.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The news of growth in renewable energy outpacing that of coal for the first time this year provides more evidence that the world can transition to a clean energy future.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Yes Prime Minister Carney, where are your values?
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Elizabeth May: Where is the ‘brainy and thoughtful’ Mark Carney who warned the world of the dangers of climate change?
Our PM, when he was the governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech 10 years ago that changed the conversation on the threat to climate change on our
www.thestar.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Yes Prime Minister Carney, where are your values?
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. Please join us in wearing orange as an act of solidarity, awareness, and remembrance.
September 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. Please join us in wearing orange as an act of solidarity, awareness, and remembrance.
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Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat | The Tyee
The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.
thetyee.ca
September 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
Tuesday September 23, at 6:30 pm. Climate Reads! book club meets at the Salmon Arm Library in Piccadilly Mall (large meeting room). Join us for casual discussions about the climate-related books we are reading and other good reads we have heard about. We also have a book exchange between members!
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Tuesday September 23, at 6:30 pm. Climate Reads! book club meets at the Salmon Arm Library in Piccadilly Mall (large meeting room). Join us for casual discussions about the climate-related books we are reading and other good reads we have heard about. We also have a book exchange between members!
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It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
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This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.
Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/
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The latest researcher has not only linked heat waves to climate change but now also to individual companies who contributed to the problem. The research could help force companies to take accountability for their role in climate change-related disasters. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...
Research links Canada’s fossil fuel industry to deadly heat waves
Emissions from fossil fuel and cement companies have contributed significantly to the frequency and severity of devastating heat waves over the last two decades, a new study finds. The paper could hel...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The latest researcher has not only linked heat waves to climate change but now also to individual companies who contributed to the problem. The research could help force companies to take accountability for their role in climate change-related disasters. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/10/n...
The fossil fuel industry is banking on carbon capture and storage to stay alive and keep those profits rolling in as they create a climate bomb with ongoing expansion. Researchers are highly skeptical that capture and storage of CO2 can be done at the scale needed. www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
How much carbon can we safely store underground? Much less than previously thought
Drawing down carbon from the air and stashing it in underground rock formations has been framed as an essential way to slow and reverse global warming. But new research published Wednesday in the jour...
www.resilience.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The fossil fuel industry is banking on carbon capture and storage to stay alive and keep those profits rolling in as they create a climate bomb with ongoing expansion. Researchers are highly skeptical that capture and storage of CO2 can be done at the scale needed. www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Here's a rock star that has more than just fame and fortune on his mind. Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact. We hope he's right!
insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...
How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism - Inside Climate News
Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.
insideclimatenews.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Here's a rock star that has more than just fame and fortune on his mind. Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact. We hope he's right!
insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0109202...
Efforts to develop so-called "low-carbon" oil & gas is a distraction from the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels! Nature reported that 1,460 billion tonnes of CO2 can be safely stored underground, a fraction of industry's projections of 12,000 billion tonnes.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Storing carbon underground? There's less room than we thought, new study suggests | CBC News
Carbon storage, the still mostly unproven technology to keep planet-warming greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, has a much lower potential to reduce climate change than current projections, accord...
www.cbc.ca
September 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Efforts to develop so-called "low-carbon" oil & gas is a distraction from the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels! Nature reported that 1,460 billion tonnes of CO2 can be safely stored underground, a fraction of industry's projections of 12,000 billion tonnes.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
We thought we were going to have a smoke-free summer but much of BC is now inundated with wildfire smoke. The health risks associated with exposure to the contaminants in wildfire smoke are laid out in the video. Be safe and watch for air quality advisories in your area. youtu.be/upOGZ1o3J-w
Why distance doesn’t make wildfire smoke safer
YouTube video by CBC News
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September 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We thought we were going to have a smoke-free summer but much of BC is now inundated with wildfire smoke. The health risks associated with exposure to the contaminants in wildfire smoke are laid out in the video. Be safe and watch for air quality advisories in your area. youtu.be/upOGZ1o3J-w