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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, when Forbes says it ... the future of energy and clean tech is not nuclear. Too expensive and no one wants to store radioactive nuclear waste. #RenewableEnergy
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Holtec Backs Down, Reveals Achilles’ Heel For U.S. Nuclear Resurgence

SMRs have been spotlighted by the Secretary of Energy to help resolve the power surge needed for data centers and AI. But SMRs create 2 to 30 times more nuclear waste.

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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 8h

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to Canada's carbon pollution.

While some sectors have seen remarkable improvements, oil and gas emissions continue to climb.

That's why the Emissions Cap is desperately needed.

@cape-acme.bsky.social

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'It Depends': Carney Shifts Stance on Maintaining Emissions Cap

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the federal emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping ...

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 7h

The IEA notes the record increase in CO2 levels in 2024.
"Natural gas and coal drove the increase in [record] emissions"
This puts paid to Natural Gas as a 'transitional fuel' BS.
It's long past time to shut down the fossil fuel industry. #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition
www.iea.org/reports/glob...

CO2 Emissions – Global Energy Review 2025 – Analysis - IEA

Global Energy Review 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 8h

It's time Canada pivots away from GM, Ford, Stellantis. They're committing economic suicide by abandoning the ZEVs the world wants. Let them. They'll be replaced with vastly superior technology from China, Korea, Europe. An example of creative destruction for which the Nobel was awarded this week.

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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 12h

"Hello, China. It's Canada. Let's talk about you setting up an EV production facility in Canada."

"Sounds good. We'll stop tariffing your canola and hurting your farmers."

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

No.
#FossilFools #EndFossilFuels #ClimateDisaster
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

Can we have new pipelines and curb climate change, too?

Podcast Episode · Ideas · 2025-10-07 · 54m

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

Carney's only real climate policy so far has been to bend the knee to Big Oil & Gas: dropping the consumer carbon tax & EV mandates. He got my vote & many others for being climate savvy. By losing those votes he's guaranteed to be a one-term PM. #ClimateCrisis
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages

‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy

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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant initiative to boost biodiversity - bee bricks - designed with small holes to provide nesting habitats for solitary bees 🐝

#bees
#pollinators
#biodiversity
#conservation

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

Smart investors will clean up by shorting GM stock. By walking away from EVs they concede global automotive markets to China, Korea & Europe. And in the US in 2029 they'll be dead in the water with gas guzzlers when ALL regressive Trump policies are rescinded. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

GM to take a $1.6-billion hit as policy shifts force reassessment of EV plans

Auto maker’s announcement follows the end of EV tax incentives and relaxing emissions rules in the U.S.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

Even faster: flying Adelie penguins!
#AprilFools
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Flying Penguins - BBC

YouTube video by BBC

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

"World oil supply will rise more rapidly than previously expected this year & a surplus could expand in 2026"
But by all means let's gamble on new oil pipelines in a world with a rapidly expanding oil glut. New pipelines are economic madness. #EndFossilFuels
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/ind...

Global oil surplus could stretch into 2026 on higher OPEC+ output, softening demand, IEA says

The International Energy Agency says global supply may exceed demand by about 4 million bpd next year

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 1d

This Nobel Prize was awarded for research on creative destruction, where new innovations replace obsolete technology. We're in the midst of the most important bout of creative destruction ever, one on which the future of the planet rests: replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. #EndFossilFuels

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 2d

More on the 'drill and dash' strategy of the fossil fuel industry. The Alberta Energy Regulator estimates the cost of well / pipeline / mine cleanup at north of a quarter TRILLION $$$. But Big Oil & Gas plan to have taxpayers to pick up the tab. #EndFossilFuels
www.theenergymix.com/alberta-orph...

Alberta Orphan Well Strategy Faces Pushback from Residents, Municipalities, Experts

Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip ...

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 2d

Have Carney & his minions been turned into pod-people a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers? How else do you explain the absolute rubbish they are spouting that serves as advertisements for the fossil fuel cartel that profits from burning the planet. #EnergyTransition #EndOil

Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 2d

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate change. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 2d

What Canadian media should do when PP lies

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

#Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist.
Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 3d

"The TD report makes the case that blocking electric cars made outside of North America from the Canadian market may not, in fact, be in anyone’s interests."

Ya think?
#EnergyTransition
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Economists Say Ottawa Should Rethink Tariffs on Chinese EVs

Partnerships between Canadian and Chinese car companies could improve Canada’s electric vehicle ecosystem, a new TD report suggests.

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Chris Chuckry @chrischuckry.bsky.social · 3d

Ooops! Misadventures from her time in office continue to plague former premier, Heather Stefanson and a couple of her former ministers. #mbpoli #politicalcartoon #conservative #heatherstefanson #ethicsviolation

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

What frightens me most about Halloween cobwebs isn’t how they look…..it’s that they catch the living.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.

Downy woodpecker entangled in plastic artificial decorative Halloween spider webs.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 4d

The Dude? @calebhasler.bsky.social will have to put this on his watchlist!

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 5d

I had fun with Tron Ares. It connects the franchise well and raises some of the same questions about our relationship with virtual lives. The soundtrack and effects are superb. Is it a great movie? No. We've seen this story before and done better. Also: Jeff Bridges is totally The Dude in this movie

a movie poster for tron ares shows a man in a cage

ALT: a movie poster for tron ares shows a man in a cage

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 4d

And we all know what this leads to. Unfortunately, Val Kilmer isn't available for the sequel.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the 'stable genius' in action. For the mathematically challenged, a 100% cut means a price falls to ZERO. A 200%, 300%, 500% cut (or more), means the company PAYS YOU to take their drugs away. This helps explain why he's gone bankrupt so many times. SMH.🤦

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 5d

I now fear for Venezuela - expecting attacks on their boats from the US military. Massive tariffs at the very least. #NobelPeacePrize #LoserTrump

Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations Chris! Big news.

Chris Wiebe @chriswiebe.bsky.social · 5d

I am honoured to be named an APS Fellow. Less than 0.5% of the membership can be nominated. The citation is:

« For pioneering work on the synthesis of new magnetic materials and for leadership in the promotion of science literacy, political engagement, and underrepresented groups in physics » (1/2)

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 5d

Considerable relief this morning. #NobelPeacePrize

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