TGM #139: The Big Thaw (May 29, 2009)
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This week:
- TGM goes North – way North – for a check-up on the state of Canada’s Arctic. Ed Struzik, author of The Big Thaw: Travels in a Melting North and Science Journalist with The Edmonton Journal, gives his account of no less than 11 epic Arctic journeys.
- Dr. Peter Kershaw, Arctic researcher at the University of Edmonton speaks about his research on the store of frozen greenhouse gasses hidden beneath the Northern frozen soils.
The headlines:
- Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced that Canada would not start restricting emissions until at least 2012.
- The province of Ontario has announced that it will join Quebec and BC in creating a cap-and-trade system to curb emissions.
- A new “green roof” policy has been approved in Toronto
- The government of Canada will be selling off the nuclear production wing of the Atomic Energy Agency of Canada.
- Northwest Territories communities have announced unanimous opposition to the Alberta tar sands over health effects
- A new American study confirms that a large portion of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves are under the Arctic.
- A cap-and-trade bill has passed in the US House Committee
- Northeastern North America is likely to feel pronounced effects of the Greenland ice melt
- More headlines…