This week:

• Jordan Poppenk speaks with Atmospheric Physicist and University of Toronto University Professor Dr. Richard Peltier about the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Follow this link to read the summary of the document’s findings.

• Arts correspondant Letitia Henville speaks with Bruce Rosensweet from Artscape Green Arts Barns, which is redeveloping historic TTC streetcar repair barns in a $3 million provincial bid to create a convergence centre for the arts and the environment.

The headlines in brief:

• The IPCC report was released with much fanfare, marking a scientific 90 percent probability that climate change was human caused, and indicating Canada would be particularly hard hit by climate change;
• Mr Harper projected in a policy speech on Wednesday that by 2010 Canada’s emissions would be about 46 per cent above the targets it had agreed to hit by 2012;
• Provincial leaders, impatient with the Harper government, are working toward their own a national energy plan;
• Tickets for a lecture by Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore were in such demand that they crashed the ticket website by flooding it with 23,000 hits in 3 minutes;
• The International Joint Commission, or IJC, wants Canada and the U.S. to make themselves accountable for cleaning up and protecting the Great Lakes;
• The warming climate is resulting in more precipitation in Canada’s north, with increases of up to 45 percent in places;
• The American Enterprise Institute is offering scientists and economists $10,000 for essays that cast doubt on the latest IPCC report;
• 46 countries have called for a new, more powerful UN environmental body;
• The UN’s lifting of a ban on caviar has conservationists and chefs concerned;
• Sea turtles are dying in huge numbers in India and Bangladesh, and fishing may be the culprit.

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