Information About Feel the Heat

The host arrangement for COP 31 was announced today. It is an interesting deal, with Turkey hosting, Australia presiding “for the purposes of negotiations” and a Pacific Island state holding a pre-COP event. The theme for COP 31 should be “life or death.” And by theme I mean the high-level prioritie … Read more »

45 people died in Jamaica last week, from Hurricane Melissa. At roughly the same time typhoons killed at least 259 people in the Philippines. This post is dedicated to them, and their families. Their deaths were predictable and preventable. They were predicted, but they were not prevented. They were … Read more »

What does it mean to abandon something? It means to “cease to support or look after (someone); desert,” to “give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking)” or to “discontinue (a scheduled event) before completion.” Basic Facts The Carney government is well aware of the glo … Read more »

A shell game is where people move shells (or cups, or whatever) around on a table, with an object under just one of them – you have to pick the shell that has the pea under it. The key is that “it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.”  And that is accomplished by having you … Read more »

(reposted with permission from https://law.lclark.edu/live/blogs/189-climate-justice-desserts-the-unga-is-the-climate, originally posted on April 20, 2022) Introduction – International justice out of balance A handful of states have gained incredible wealth and power while causing climate change, an … Read more »