Graham HarrisJun 182 minA Visualization of Alberta's GHG Emissions since 1990What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.
Graham HarrisFeb 41 minA 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 HarrisSep 4, 20192 minWhat 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 definiti...
Graham HarrisJul 30, 20192 minYes, 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 s...
Graham HarrisApr 16, 20192 minWhat 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 HarrisMar 26, 20192 minWhat 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 t...
Graham HarrisJan 28, 20193 minWhat 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 don...
