Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World

Dr. Andrew Weaver

In November 2008, PIA's Environment Task Force co-sponsored a lecture series featuring Dr. Weaver and his new book, which took place in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge.

Dr. Andrew Weaver is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. He was lead author in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change and is currently the chief editor of the Journal of Climate. He was nominated along with Al Gore for the Nobel Prize and is the author of the recently released book, Keeping Our Cool.

Keeping Our Cool Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, snowless ski runs in Switzerland, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. The climate change we are in store for over the next few centuries will be larger and occur faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. Brilliantly researched, Keeping Our Cool is a comprehensive and engaging examination and explanation of global warming, with a specific emphasis on climate change in Canada. In an engaging and accessible way, Weaver explains the levels of greenhouse gas emissions needed to stabilize the climate and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.

Book Launch - Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk

Public Interest Alberta's Environment Task Force co-sponsored the Edmonton launch of the new book by Andrew Nikiforuk on November 3, 2008. Other sponsored events

Who Decides Our Energy Future?

Alberta's energy future is a question of growing concern and public interest. With royalty rates being debated, the rapid expansion of the tar sands, continued destruction of our natural landscape and the negative impacts of the booming economy, Albertans are asking where our energy future is headed.

Public Interest Alberta's Environment Task Force is working with member organizations and concerned citizens to expand the debate on who decides our energy future and advocate for a policies that put the interests of our citizens and our environment first.

Learn more about the environmental, economic and social implications of Alberta's energy sector by visiting these links to our Environment Task Force members and other active organizations.

Alberta Federation of Labour

Council of Canadians – Energy Campaign

 Greenpeace

 Parkland Institute

 Pembina Institute - Oil Sands Watch

 Polaris Institute  - Tar Sands Watch 

Sierra Club of Canada - Tar Sands Time Out