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2013 to 2021 Comox Glacier Ice Loss

Posted on November 16, 2021May 15, 2022

  Estimated 95 foot vertical Ice loss Between 2013 and 2021 In 1988, NASA climate scientist James Hansen’s powerful testimony [link] to the US Congress made clear the threats posed by climate change. At that time, the carbon in the atmosphere was 348 parts per million, [ppm] measured at the observatory on Mauna Loa, Hawaii….

Comox Glacier lost 80 vertical feet in 7 years. 2013/2020

Posted on October 5, 2020January 29, 2022

September 28th 2020 On September 28th, 2020, continuing an ongoing seven year project, I took a close-up photograph of the Comox Glacier, showing new rock exposure on all sides of the glacier, and a new big exposed rock right in the middle. This means the glacier will probably continue to melt not only from the…

Ancients of Nimpkish

Posted on July 18, 2020November 28, 2021

4k video of the tall trees in the Nimpkish Valley. August 2017

BC hydro Dams environmentally could be as bad as the Alberta Oil Sands

Posted on May 15, 2020September 14, 2021

Homes are heated by wood, oil, gas, and BC Hydro. The hazards of wood, oil and gas are well known but there is a major environmental cost of BC Hydro’s dams, a lot of it unseen, and little known to the public, which must be included in this discussion. 1- Thousands of productive salmon runs…

Comox Glacier 2013 to 2019 Ice Loss

Posted on October 3, 2019May 18, 2020

2013 to 2019 Before and after slider   (above ) The photo on the left was taken the 4th week of September, 2013.  The photo on the right was taken the 4th week of September, 2019.  All the glacier photos have been shot from the bird observation deck on the Dyke Road in Courtenay, BC, about…

An Open and Shut Case of Ecocide at East Creek, Brooks Peninsula

Posted on June 1, 2019January 30, 2022

Use the before and after Slider to see how Lemare Logging drove in deep and as fast as possible to make sure it was unusable for saving.    2014  to  2016       [Google Earth Image]

Kananaskis Before the Storm

Posted on November 21, 2021November 30, 2021

The Kananaskis area in 2017, just before the first significant winter blizzard of the season hit the region.

Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC

Posted on September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC I want to start with these numbers and graphs from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii.  One graph shows the CO2 increase from 2016 to 2020, and the other one shows the increase from 1960 to 2020.  You are all probably quite familiar with these graphs and measurements…

The No/Fly Movement

Posted on September 10, 2021September 12, 2021

Whether you’re on the ground supporting the no-fly movement, or because of COVID-19 your travel life has been a little odd over the last couple of years – maybe you found different or other things to do. Perhaps you discovered a kind of recreation that wasn’t available to previous generations in times of lockdown or…

Comet Neowise

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Anutz Lake

Posted on May 30, 2020January 30, 2022
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