A new set of Knowledge Highlights from PICS scholars is now available. 📘
This latest set of case studies explore reciprocal First Nations-led or co-designed climate research that is grounded in place, governance, and stewardship.
Explore all five: climatesolutions.ca/knowledge-hi...
🎬 See Siila Watt-Cloutier on the big screen—and then hear from her live.
Join us for Tough Old Broads + a Q&A with the leader who brought human rights into the global climate conversation. @tougholdbroads.bsky.social dbroads.bsky.social
📍 Roxy Theatre, Victoria
📅 May 3 & 4
🎟️ ow.ly/sLV750YNcvv
A graphic that reads: PICS Funding Call Now Open! Policy Spark Research Grants The background of the image is dark blue. Photos in the image include a smart thermostat, workers installing solar panels on a roof, a worker installing a heat pump, and a woman and a child sitting on a front stoop.
📣🌎 This #EarthDay, we’re launching the next round of our Policy Spark Research Grants—supporting rapid, policy-relevant climate research in B.C.
$20K per project. Open to faculty at UVic, UBC, SFU & UNBC.
Deadline: May 31
Learn more: climatesolutions.ca/current-fund...
Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?
Here it is.
Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.
On The Climate Brink, I write about different ways of counting heat-related mortality.
I think this is important info for everyone who wants to talk about climate impacts.
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
How many people does climate change kill every summer? Great post by @andrewdessler.com on why the answer you get depends on how you ask the question.
Just picked it up at Munros Books in Vic!
The middle class doesn’t exist anymore.
Unless you’re very wealthy, you are far closer to becoming homeless and/or bankrupt than you realize.
It can happen in an instant and can be nearly impossible to recover from.
Better social safety nets benefit everyone.
Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"
This is HUGE news for the small but real group of patients like me who had a documented adverse effect from an mRNA vaccine (increased my variant angina greatly for 1.5 years.) SO EXCITED to potentially be better protected next year!
4A. She had to be rushed to hospital for proper pain relief & nearly died alone because my father wasn’t allowed in for hours (COVID time). So MAID is no guarantee of a dignified death. She would have been much better cared for in hospice and had a dignified death. I won’t forget this.
4. Finally, something raw. My mother had lung cancer and opted for MAID. She did not receive it and died in agony because she was told those who opt for MAID can’t receive hospice care. When a liver metastasis gave way suddenly & she bled to death, the MAID service was not set up to help.
3. Tier 2 MAID in an underfunded & punishing disability system offers poor disabled people a “dignified” death over a dignified and comfortable LIFE. Are we all just a QALY calculation? What are we losing through this math? So much. Disabled people are vital members of our communities.
2A. If the point of that statement is “we have to fix these issues immediately to save precious lives”, great. Yes, exactly. If it’s an excuse to again go 🤷♂️… I think you get my point. There have been both post-heat dome.
2. As I work on my book on the 2021 heat dome, I see (mostly unconscious) ableism in some decisions made. But the *reactions* to the event often included outright ableism. “Folks who died were poor, old, sick and socially isolated.” To that I ask you: SO? What do you mean?
1. Even though I can perform respectability & have some power, I have still been at the end of shruggy guy 🤷♂️medicine from time to time and most especially in the ER during a crisis. I BELIEVE POOR DISABLED AND MARGINALIZED FOLKS when they tell me they are offered death over help, routinely.
I have a lot of thoughts connected to MAID as a disabled feminist with white and middle-class privilege. Some, in no particular order…
Did you read the article? Go read the article.
"We do not believe there is such a thing as safe MAiD in a society where disability too often remains synonymous with poverty, isolation, exclusion, and shame. All lives are not valued equally."
Anyone who purports to care about human rights needs to read the work of @mssinenomine.bsky.social This is a blunt yet nuanced exploration of Alberta’s recent MAID legislation. macdonaldlaurier.ca/better-dead-...
The crazy heat wave that gripped the southwest half of the U.S. in late March 2026 joins our semi-subjective top-six list of the meteorologically stunning extreme events this century that have most astonished myself and @bhensonweather.bsky.social :
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...
Glacial ice is melting like a popsicle dropped on a hot summer sidewalk.
Record heat in AUSTRALIA
The Mount Baw Baw in Victoria had its warmest April day in history with a max of 21.4C.
Nearly 100% of Southern Hemisphere countries are or will break heat records,besides dozens in the Northern Hemisphere.
Thank you!!!
Blocking archives risks harming the public record.
Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded.
Get the story on Techdirt 🔗
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
@mark.bsky.social #techdirt
PS How did you get through that without crying? ❤️
This was a beautiful tribute. Sending you sincere condolences on the loss of your friend. May he be in the presence of the One he loved, and may his memory be a blessing to you always.
Put aside the outrage, peeps, and listen to what he is telling you. It’s your turn to be his focus. Don’t huff and puff. ORGANIZE.
This summer is going to be… something. 🙃
