There is a ton of misinformation in my replies so here is a primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up CO2, built biomass, then died. That organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/

When it comes to #Methane leaks, Canada is punching above its weight - and not in a good way: nationalobserver.com/2023/10/18/ana… #Methane #LNG

All our homes, cars & trucks produce less climate pollution than methane leaking from oil & gas industry. Also cities banning gas & rivers are drying up effecting hydropower and causing mass deaths of pink river dolphins in this weeks Christopher Hatch #cdnpoli nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

This week's must-read round-up of climate news from @Zerocarbon: Golden age of gas. C’est fini nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze… via @NatObserver

Golden age of gas. C’est fini. ⁦Christopher Hatch⁩ on Montreals new gas ban, the ⁦International Energy Agency⁩ heralding the end of gas, the multimillion dollar PR effort by the gas industry (and Alberta government) to fear monger & slow progress & more. #cdnpoli nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

Big news out of Montreal - a ban on new gas hookups for most new buildings. Cities can be leaders in the fight against #climatechange, and they're right to target #fossil gas for its impacts on our health and our climate. Association QC des médecins pour l'environnement @CAPE-ACME nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

“The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable,” says IEA chief Fatih Birol. Read Christopher Hatch 's Featured Story "Golden Age of Gas. C'est Fini.", here: nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze… #climatenews #climateupdate #renewableenergy

Heat pumps are "as close to magic as things get in the climate world" and "they’re outlandishly, even perplexingly, efficient". Well said Christopher Hatch @NatObserver! And honoured to be called "one of Europe’s heat pump gurus" 😄 nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

This week's climate round-up from Christopher Hatch: Includes a look at why & how EVs are taking off, and a shout-out to our national poll on the Youth Climate Corps. One green glimmer nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze… via @NatObserver

As always, great Sunday column with the week's climate news from Christopher Hatch: "The Earth flicked briefly into the terrible twos this month." 2 days above 2 degrees. Some highlights... nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze… via Canada's National Observer

Fantastic column as always from Christopher Hatch. Today he's unpacking (among other things) what we've seen play out at COP28 so far. mailchi.mp/nationalobserv…

In the face of accelerating natural disasters and the slow state of climate negotiations, new diplomatic efforts to rein in fossil fuels are being developed. Latest piece unpacks the role and potential of Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative nationalobserver.com/2023/12/14/new…

“How the light gets in” Christopher Hatch digs in to make sense of #cop28 with a little help from Leonard Cohen. nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

Prairie premiers weaponizing winter. Excellent weekly climate news roundup from ⁦Christopher Hatch⁩, with a feature on how the rhetoric of “new denial” seeks to “undermine confidence in solutions to climate change” and the credibility of experts. nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

A freeze for LNG. ⁦Christopher Hatch⁩ digs into this week’s announcement by Biden administration that it is suspending LNG approvals nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

Climate deniers are going to have an increasingly hard time reconciling our shared reality… Weather whiplash. Latest climate news roundup from ⁦Christopher Hatch⁩ nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…

Off to a Sizzling Start Christopher Hatch on how we have just experienced a 12-month period of more than 1.5 C, five of the deadliest wildfires in the planet have occurred this year, the most recent took over a hundred lives in Chile last week with hundreds still missing. 70 per cent

Are we really prepared for the effects of climate change in Canada, from fires to drought? Christopher Hatch covers climate for the National Observer and brings his perspective today on The Bridge. Listen at noon EST on SiriusXM Canada Talks, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Grateful to Christopher Hatch for this review of Climate Capitalism. nationalobserver.com/newsletters/ze…