Climate Change Science

Graham Harris

Oct 13, 20202 min read

Where have Alberta's emission offsets come from? (A bar chart race).

An animated visualization of Alberta's emission offsets over time, by project type.

Graham Harris

Aug 2, 20204 min read

More ambition, please - corporate GHG emission reduction targets in Alberta's oil and gas sector.

Last month’s blog post presented a visualization of Alberta’s GHG emissions since 1990. This showed how the oil and gas sector has become...

Graham Harris

Jun 18, 20202 min read

A Visualization of Alberta's GHG Emissions since 1990

What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.

Graham Harris

Feb 4, 20201 min read

A disappearing light?

This morning’s papers featured some rather unfortunate news for our namesake insect, the firefly. As we talked about in a previous post,...

Graham Harris

Sep 4, 20192 min read

What is the global carbon budget?

We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple...

Graham Harris

Jul 30, 20192 min read

Yes, even in Alberta, an electric car makes good environmental sense.

Everyone knows that Alberta has a “dirty” electricity grid. So, in our province, an electric car can’t actually make good environmental...

Graham Harris

Apr 16, 20192 min read

What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 2 of 2.

In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) and how they are used to equate releases of different...

Graham Harris

Mar 26, 20192 min read

What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 1 of 2.

There are many different greenhouse gases (for a primer on what a greenhouse gas is, see my earlier post), some of which last longer in...

Graham Harris

Jan 28, 20193 min read

What is a greenhouse gas? Or, why climate change and bread have more in common than you think.

I don’t like to make assumptions. While climate change has received a lot of media attention over the last couple of decades, I still...