Hotter than Hades – Climate Change vs. Global Warming.

So is this Global Warming? More precisely… is this Climate Change? We’ve set a number of temperature records in British Columbia over the past few days. My weather station at Alberni Weather.ca recorded a maximum of 41.1C on Friday (21st) and over 38C yesterday in the City of Port Alberni. Both would be records if …

Letter re: Sustainable Forest Practices in BC

Dear Editors of the Alberni Valley Times and the Vancouver Sun, Blustery speeches and heart-felt complaints are all well and good, but they don’t get us very far. At the Public forum held by the Save Our Valley Alliance on May 4 in Port Alberni, I felt there was little in the way of a …

Wind Power Economics

In the comments of my previous post on Manitoba Wind Farms, David Billington asked, ” It would be interesting to know the economics of wind energy compared to fossil fuels as a source of electric power.” Indeed it would. And as if it were simply meant to be… out came a very timely article. It’s …