We respond to listener comments about the climate change show.
The week’s headlines in brief:
Today is Buy Nothing Day, a day on day on which consumers are encouraged to hold off on all avoidable purchases;
The Toronto Transit Commission has unveiled a new transit token to foil counterfeiters;
Canadian adults place environmental issues at the top of their political agenda, according to a poll by Decima Research;
Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, according to a meta-review of 866 research studies;
China’s pollution problem has worsened this year despite anti-pollution efforts due to the demands of a surging economy, according to Chinese state media;
Scientists have suggested a last-resort approach to cooling the earth if global warming heats the Earth too dangerously involving a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere;
Delegates at the UN conference on climate change in Nairobi, Kenya failed to set a deadline for reaching agreement on new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012.
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Ryan Wiseman speaks with Doug from cycling advocacy group Take The Tooker about their municipal election day demonstration.
The headlines in brief:
Rona Ambrose has been criticized for inappropriately practicing partisan politics at the international UN climate change forum;
Canada’s public acknowledgement that it will not meet Kyoto targets, the first such announcement in the world, has drawn international criticism and won Canada the Top Fossil award of the Climate Action Network, for the country that has delayed, obstructed or stalled the negotiations the most during the conference;
A massive storm has swept Canada, causing massive damage on the West coast;
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty conceded that coal plants he promised to close in 2007 will not close until at least 2014, blaming the delay on his advisors during the previous election;
A new power transmission line to be built between Ontario and Quebec has been announced and work will begin next spring for completion in 2009;
Chevron Canada was granted a permit to drill for natural gas in the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary because of a mistake at Environment Canada;
The world’s fish and seafood populations will collapse by 2048 if current trends in habitat destruction and overfishing continue, according to a new study by lead author Boris Worm in the journal Science;
The European Commission is seeking to impose emissions controls on all flights within and coming into Europe;
Solar panels are now compulsory on all new and renovated buildings in Spain to curb the country’s growing demand for energy.
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This week: for our autumn fundraising episode, the show takes a look inward, with discussion about what the show brings to the Toronto community and why we need to be supported by listeners. Includes interviews with:
Ryan Wiseman, Out-of-Range correspondant and BeSustainable.com webhost, discusses his early collaboration with The Green Majority.
Rosemary Mosco introduces her research on the environmental radio programs in Canada and unveils our new show slogan!
The week’s headlines in brief:
International Climate Action Day is met with protests and creative action around the world;
Take the Tooker prepares for a rally on the day of Toronto’s municipal elections;
International action on Climate Action Day, November 4, was marked by organized protests in 47 countries around the world;
Aboriginal land claims from the Mississaugas have added new voices of protest to Toronto’s Island Airport;
Prime Minister Stephen Harper canceled a late-November meeting with European leaders over fears of criticism about Canada’s stance on the Kyoto Protocol;
Bill Graham and Duceppe said they would send unofficial representatives to the international UN climate meeting next week to speak to other countries and reporters, hoping to counteract Environment Minister Rona Ambrose’s Kyoto-unfriendly position;
Canadian environmental groups are under fire themselves for launching a “sexist” critique of Environment Minister Rona Ambrose;
Elizabeth May claims Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas is being muzzled by the Conservative government as she has been told she can no longer file separate, independent reports;
A massive storm drenched Washington and Oregon for two days this week, leaving behind both chaos and new rainfall records;
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on people around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the next year;
El Nino is expected to continue into winter, possibly resulting in warmer than normal temperatures over western and northern United States and western and central Canada.
Jordan Poppenk speaks to the people of Toronto about climate change and Toronto’s garbage;
We introduce a new listener feedback line for listeners to leave comments and feedback that we may broadcast on the show: (718) 514-9785.
The week’s headlines in brief:
Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in the US and Canada lost electricity after a storm system blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 80 kilometres per hour, knocking down power lines;
A new poll suggests that one fifth of Canadians think health care is the most important issue facing Canada today;
Environmentalists threatened to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse gas emissions agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol;
The Clean Air Act to a committee before its second reading, paving the way for opposition parties to amend the act;
For the first time in the 14-year history of the United Nations treaty on climate change, the Canadian government is excluding environmental and industry groups from its official delegation for international negotiations;
Municipalities in Ontario and Quebec introduced legal action aimed at getting the U.S. government to require reduced emissions in places where air pollution is flowing into Canada;
A major British report released on Monday says that if left unchecked, global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression;
Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest has declined to its lowest levels since 1991.
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