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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.
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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...
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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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