Chris Hatch

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Articles

Danielle Smith's revealing 'living standards' slip

1 week ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

You never want to invalidate anyone's feelings but since the premier has invited us into a wider, global perspective, perhaps we might gently offer an alternative view: Canada has problems, for sure, but almost everyone in Smith's audience is among the luckiest people on the planet. And, for that matter, among the luckiest people in the history of people. That's not to say there aren't people in the country who are still, unforgivably, without clean water or decent housing.
There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"

2 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds' advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn't bear the blather about "decarbonized oil" spilling from the first ministers' meeting this week.
Burning through the guardrails

3 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn't heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the mid-2030s. Now, we're on the doorstep. It was always a stretch goal. The nations of the world have been far quicker to adopt targets than to tackle fossil fuel burning. And the WMO's new forecast means any faint hope is mathematically implausible.
A deadly start to wildfire season

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

It's hard to imagine a more terrifying and excruciating way to die - trapped by wildfire as the flames close in. Richard and Sue Nowell were killed this week by the Manitoba wildfires, leaving two sons orphaned and homeless. The deaths turned "an emergency into a tragedy," said Premier Wab Kinew. It had seemed to be a relatively subdued beginning to fire season in Canada compared to the past couple of years.
'Build, baby, build.' Some conditions apply

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

"How we build matters," says Efficiency Canada. The organization calculates the most effective way to minimize additional carbon pollution comes from adopting the most ambitious tier of Canada's building codes (the net-zero energy ready standard). There's some dispute whether Orr and the team in Saskatchewan truly "invented" super efficient or passive house design (there are even killjoys who contest Canada's claim to the zipper).
It's time to shift from relief to gratitude as Carney helps steer the climate transition

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

There were a long few moments of icy fear as the early vote results trickled in from Atlantic Canada on Monday evening. Befuddled pundits began wondering aloud whether the pollsters had indeed been wrong and Maple MAGA would vastly outperform expectations. The next morning it became clear that a similar foreboding must have shuddered through Danielle Smith's watch party. Viewed from beyond the Prairies, the argument is breathtakingly audacious. Oil and gas production is at an all-time high.
As towns burn and reefs bleach, whither are we bound?

2 months ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

The most sensible intervention of the federal election campaign came not from the federal leaders but a more humble layer of government: mayors and councillors from across the country banded together urging the federal parties to get their "elbows up for climate." One of the most poignant signatures to the open letter was Richard Ireland, the mayor of Jasper. Just nine months ago, an inferno roared into the beloved townsite in the Rockies.
Climate change doesn't care if Trump believes in it

2 months ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

Amid the deluge of Trumpacies battering us from moment to moment, it would have been easy to miss one of the Trumpiest of the Trump administration's Trumpanacians. This week, it stripped funding to researchers at Princeton University because their findings are "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety.'" Among the scenarios are those produced by Princeton meteorologist Syukuro Manabe - which were deemed good enough for the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics.
A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom

Mar 17, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

It's a relief to come across any trend toward safety and sanity these days, especially a sharp and sustained trend. So, let's take a little mental health break and look at the latest update on climate pollution out of the U.K. The U.K.'s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That's not a typo - we're looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired the industrial revolution.
Rustad targets environmental groups,echoing Alberta 'fiasco'

Feb 25, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Rochelle Baker |Chris Hatch |John Woodside |Rory White

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats. Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.