RMontpellier - Climate Senior
Climate Activist, Speaker, Organizer. Seniors For Climate, Climate Legacy, SCAN!, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Fridays For Future, 350.Org. Climate Reality Leader (2013)
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- Find your own town to see how hot it was. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Ottawa plotting a high stakes clean energy strategy www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/21/n...
- In Davos, Carney delivered a speech which will go down in history, with overtones of Churchill's 1936 speech about appeasement. Churchill applied this to Hitler’s expansion, Carney to economic coercion and great‑power rivalry. Further delay in confronting Trump = fewer choices and bad outcomes.
- Ottawa plotting a high stakes clean energy strategy www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/21/n...
- One ship loaded with solar PV is now worth more to the grid than 120 coal-carriers reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-loa...
- Canada’s LNG Mirage: Why Most Projects Won’t Be Built and Taxpayers Won’t See the Payoff cleantechnica.com/2026/01/10/c...
- Really good article by @karelmayrand.bsky.social While the U.S. focuses on sunset oil sector, China jumps ahead on the future energy platform. Will Canada join the clean energy wave or dig in deeper on oil? @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social
- La guerre énergétique qui se profile derrière l’intervention américaine au Venezuela. La Chine et les États-Unis redessinent la carte énergétique mondiale. L’avenir des énergies fossiles est au cœur de cette lutte d’influence. Mon nouveau billet dans @lactualite.com lactualite.com/monde/la-gue...
- Temperatures are well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in much of the country, and forecasters warned of potentially catastrophic fire conditions on Friday. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...
- Who will be next? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
- The years leading up to 2025 were marked by a rare optimism that the United States would finally do something about climate change. Until Trump.
- Seniors For Climate' 2026 theme is Break the Climate Silence - Creating Space for Action. How silencing science harms us all open.substack.com/pub/talkingc... @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social
- A poll last January found that 85 percent of the population opposed the idea. Greenland has a 'vital strategic asset' open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
- Lessons from Venezuela - Canada Will Never Break After Venezuela, it's Greenland and Canada #WakeUpCanada open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
- On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring an “energy emergency” and calling on the government to expand support for fossil fuels while curtailing support for clean energy...and it was all downhill from there. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
- But as of the last three or four years, we finally have a tool, not at this point to stop global warming – it’s too late for that – but perhaps to at least shave some tenths of a degree off how hot the planet gets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by RMontpellier - Climate SeniorAfter the dark billionaire circus of robots and censorship, it’s time to join the light, Bluesky. Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community. Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
- Q&A: Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode www.theenergymix.com/qa-lessons-f...
- China rolling out fleets of autonomous delivery trucks, experimenting with flying cars and installing parking lot robots that can swap out your E.V.’s dying battery in just minutes. There are drones that deliver lunch by lowering it from the sky on a cable.
- As the excessive heat and energy warms the ocean, the change in temperature leads to unparalleled cascading effects, including ice-melting, sea-level rise, marine heatwaves, and ocean acidification. www.un.org/en/climatech...
- Tariffs are setting back climate goals around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/b...
- Global insured catastrophe losses set to hit $107 billion in 2025, report shows www.reuters.com/business/env...
- ‘Unrecognizably’ Cheap Batteries Turn Solar Into an ‘Anytime’ Energy Source www.theenergymix.com/unrecognizab...
- How many glaciers in Canada's Arctic can be saved from extinction? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/15/n...
- Climate abundance is the only way forward www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
- Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...
- "The green economy has already crossed from “future opportunity” into present balance sheet reality. It is no longer a niche." Going mainstream. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
- LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe as Investors Get Set for Phaseout www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
- Reposted by RMontpellier - Climate SeniorSo… big news. (Keep reading.)
- LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe as Investors Get Set for Phaseout www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
- Mark Carney is making a cynic out of me www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
- The final statement of the U.N. talks, which were held in Belém, Brazil, did not even use the words “fossil fuels.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
- Another example of Canada falling behind. Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...
- Reposted by RMontpellier - Climate SeniorIt would be easy, and accurate, to call 2025 the low point of human action on the climate crisis. But there was another major development that gives us reason to hope for the future, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
- Reposted by RMontpellier - Climate Senior“Another year of data demonstrating clean energy as a real engine for job creation in Georgia.” With 85,500 clean energy jobs, Georgia has SEVEN TIMES as many clean energy jobs as fossil fuel jobs 🔌💡
- In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...
- “I think that my government needs to be honest with Canadians” www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
- Worst day ever for Canada's climate policy. climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...
- This is the person and the government PM Carney has jumped in bed with. Canada's bottom-feeder Premier. Alberta UCP to vote on opposing climate policies, emissions caps www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/n...
- Will a new oil pipeline lead to more emissions? Does a bear s*^t in the woods? www.cbc.ca/news/science...
- The IEA now says oil demand will soar, not decline, as previously predicted. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
- Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
- With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit...
- Canada Trails Global Partners in Reducing Emissions www.theenergymix.com/canada-trail...
- There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers
- Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me: the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit...
- Canada receives the award because the new government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has flushed years of climate policies down the drain, and is completely ‘Missing In Action’ at a COP
- 📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.” Read our press release: shorturl.at/hSGvm
- The US’s absence is “actually a good thing”, said Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations framework convention on climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- This fact sheet outlines how and why industrial carbon pricing has virtually no impact on the day-to-day expenses of average Canadians @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social l @senrosagalvez.bsky.social climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
- LETTER: Youth climate activist urges leaders to prioritize science over politics www.baytoday.ca/letters-to-t... via @NorthBayToday @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social
- Revolutionary pumped storage technology returns to Britain evidencenetwork.ca/a-first-in-5...
- “Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, displacement and loss – especially for those least responsible. This is moral failure – and deadly negligence,” he said. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- A message from the Government of Camaga. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
- Is there anything to love in Carney’s climate strategy? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/a...