- All COP30 some of the time in this newsletter, including former, yes former Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, now Heritage Minister, flying to Belém to be the great compassionate him, then leaving early for a budget vote. Amusingly, the press asked not why he was choking the skies with carbon pollution but “How can Canada lead on climate and nature if you’re not part of these critical negotiations?”
- DOS it ain’t. Microsoft emails one of us that “With California’s SB 261 climate disclosure deadline approaching in January 2026, many companies are finding compliance challenging… Microsoft has partnered with Mitiga Solutions to help you bridge the gap between regulation and execution. Mitiga’s solutions, EarthScan Pro and Disclose, turn climate data into actionable insights for regulatory and investor reporting.” And while big corporations can play the game and pay for this nonsense, at $12,666/year for 51-100 assets, what’s a small firm to do? “Hello, U-Haul, how much to get a rental and drop it off in Texas?”
- This just in courtesy of “NC State News” via an alert viewer: “In recent years, Chinese tissue paper made from bamboo has emerged as a trendy choice for eco-friendly shoppers. However, new research suggests these bamboo paper products may not offer significant climate benefits over tissue produced in the United States and, in some cases, may be more detrimental to the environment.” Gosh. Who knew that Communist China had dubious manufacturing standards and lied a lot, and the fate of the planet did not hinge on which tissue paper you chose? What’s worse, the key issue seems to be, according to the lead study author, that “Because the Chinese power grid is so reliant on coal for power, emissions throughout the entire tissue supply chain are higher than what we saw with the wood-based option.” And here everyone cool was telling us China was a clean-energy superpowerhouse.
- Again the scale problem rears its ugly tiny head. As for instance when “Peel Region is advancing sustainable infrastructure and climate resilience through a $1-million investment from the Government of Canada.” And what are we getting for that million bucks which, bear in mind, is peanuts to Leviathan but represents the annual tax bill of dozens of families? Um uh “This project will retrofit the existing parking lot at 7120 Hurontario Street, one of Peel Region’s corporate offices.” One lousy parking lot. “These features will help mitigate several climate change-related hazards such as extreme heat, drought, and heavy rainfall.” OK, upgrade the parking lot. But don’t ask us to believe it will fix the weather.
- Cold is good, right? Well, so the Weather Network thinks, asking “Who left the freezer door open?” then announcing that “Arctic air will be on a southward move next week to bring Canada a major pattern changeup, a healthy reminder that winter is just around the corner”. Healthy. Whereas if heat were coming in… oh wait. Their map is deep red anyway, except around Iqaluit where it’s charred. But no mention of the dreaded climate change for once.
- Gack! Canary Media tries to brighten our day with “Cleantech entrepreneurs have been trying for years to reinvent pumped hydro storage and to harness the sea to produce energy. Sizeable Energy tells Julian Spector it’s found a way to do both – with help from giant, inflatable donuts it plans to deploy off the coast.” Once upon a time, the climate zealots reported on technology they rightly or wrongly thought was working, not pie-in-the-sky or, even more comical, donuts-in-the-sea.
- It is both sad and amusing to read in National Review that “The Sierra Club has lost 60 percent of its 4 million members and held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, because, as the New York Times wrote, it offended members and volunteers who had ‘loved the club’s single-minded defense of the environment, by asking them to fully embrace its pivot to the left. Some even felt they were investigated by the club for failing to go along.’” Go woke, go broke. Even works for greens.
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26 Nov 2025 | News Roundup
As for the Sierra Club's declining membership, it appears that they have forgotten that the old left draped in green after the fall of the Iron Curtain when the old Marxist class struggle had finally lost its appeal. The lesson was they had to be subtle about their underlying colour to avoid being accurately labelled watermelons. They may be losing Joe Sixpack but there's always the Humanities faculties and all their captured institutions.
The Peel parking lot announcement conflates environmental design with climate adaptation, inflates symbolic value relative to systemic scale, and frames identity continuity ("Community for Life") in shallow but rhetorically effective terms. In other words, it's everything we've come to expect from a climate-obsessed government!