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Anne Shibata Casselman

@annecasselman.bsky.social
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Vancouver-based journalist: Public interest, climate, and science. www.annecasselman.com

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PhantoMantis @phantomantis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RIP 1923 - 2026
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Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"10 of Vancouver’s 89 public elementary schools are located within 300 metres — the distance from major roadways in which pollution levels are most concentrated — of the Clark-Knight corridor route to the port." An excellent article by @annecasselman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/port-of-vanc...
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The Vancouver families breathing in diesel truck fumes | The Narwhal
East Vancouver neighbourhoods shoulder the health burden of thousands of diesel trucks heading to and from the Port of Vancouver every week
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 06/03/2026
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief
An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 06/02/2026
Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Documentary Heritage Communities Program - Canada.ca
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/01/2026
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor. www.wired.com/story/data-c...
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Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The whole speech is worth watching. #Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Clean Energy Canada @cleanenergycanada.org · 20/01/2026
"Last month, a report from Clean Energy Canada found a province-wide switch to heat pumps for space heating would cut B.C.’s collective electricity bill by $675 million a year." #bcpoli
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B.C. heat pump firm secures US$50M to fuel North American expansion
B.C. start-up Jetson Home will use the money to bring its cost-cutting model to other jurisdictions across Canada and the United States
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Meanwhile @theguardian.com reports today that emissions from coal have fallen in India and China for first time in 50 yrs...
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Rhodium Group @rhg.com · 13/01/2026
New: We estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions. Emissions also grew faster than the economy in 2025, reversing the decoupling of emissions and economic activity of the prior two years.
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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone
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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just about every type of warning on the NWS map this afternoon...including Blizzard Warnings, High Wind Warnings, Wind Advisories, coastal hazards, and lingering Flood Warnings. I will be LIVE at 4 PM talking about this storm. Stay tuned! #wawx
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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
These subtropical air masses that reach the PNW keep getting warmer and wetter as the climate warms as a whole. Yakima, WA has reached 70 degrees today, the only other 70+ in Dec was 72 on 12/1/2021. The atmospheric water vapor content is near record highs for Dec, increasing rainfall amounts.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Widespread significant river flooding has already developed across western Washington as a series of extremely warm & moist #AtmosphericRivers move slowly across the region. This flooding will further worsen tomorrow as strongest part of AR moves ashore. #WAwx [1/3]
Image from UCSD/Scripps depicting the persistent atmospheric river over the northeastern Pacific. It shows the accumulated "integrated vapor transport" over time, in this case of a 72 hour period, which is an indicator of the accumulated moisture transported over a multi-day period by this weather system. West of Washington, the values reach the highest numbers on the chart--denoting a strong to extreme event on a 3-day basis.
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Crazy stuff! #wawx
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Next time you're at school pick up, look at the grade ones and then think about how any of them would cope with being separated from their caregiver and imprisoned.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/12/2025
China recognizes that energy storage is completely transformational for the electricity grid & thus for society as a whole. And so it is investing!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/12/2025
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/12/2025
November 2025 was the third warmest November on record in ERA5 at 1.54C above preindustrial levels – below only the records set in the prior two years (2023 and 2024):
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%. Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors. www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
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Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
That certainly tracks with Carney. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Federal funding for tuberculosis fight in the North remains uncertain, Inuit leader says
The program’s $16.2-million funding in 2023 will run out on March 31 next year
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hey opinion editor people 👋 call me ☎️ (or actually email me? 📩?) please?
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thank god climate protesters are indulging their “nostalgic” desire to stabilize the world’s climate to stop our kids’ summers from being even more smoked-out and carcinogenic. And for wanting to keep the climate stable enough to grow food reliably & stop climate-volatility hike food costs. 😤😤😤
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As Vancouverites rally around the city's reportedly endangered sustainability dept, a friendly reminder that its work is why "the city has already shaved 17 per cent off its carbon footprint from 2007 levels & now has one of the lowest per-person carbon footprints of any major Cdn city." #vanpoli
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/11/2025
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Together as One Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2025
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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My letter to the editor has been published in the most recent issue of Maclean's Magazine. You can read it on my Substack. jackiedives.substack.com/p/macleans-m...
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Maclean's Magazine Violated My Copyright.
They asked me if they could use my photographs and I said no, so they hired an illustrator.
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Vietnam: Five and a half feet of rain in a day. Smashes previous 24 hour record by two and a half feet. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Vietnam city sets national record with 1.7 m rain in 24 hours
The central Vietnamese city of Hue recorded more than a metre of rain in a 24-hour period, smashing a national record set over two decades ago, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
💯💯💯 It’s social. It’s spiritual. It’s societal.
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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Burnaby, B.C., oil refinery to fall under U.S. control in $9.1B deal
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Burnaby, B.C., oil refinery to fall under U.S. control in $9.1B deal
British Columbia’s largest oil refinery is set to fall under U.S. control this week with the expected takeover of Canadian fuel refiner and retailer Parkland Corporation by American fuel giant Sunoco.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 30/10/2025
Solar peaks in India are rising as capacity installations come online, pushing coal down during midday. In April 2025, coal ramped down 52 GW in six hours as midday solar reached 60 GW, up 41% compared to the previous April. loom.ly/YXrBeIo
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The growth of wind and solar power is happening rapidly in all kinds of countries. Except one. Which tells its own story www.ft.com/content/c406...
graphs showing rising share of renewables in energy systems in mature markets, china, emerging markets. But barely growing in petrostates
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/10/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wild! This NOAA video shows how quickly fossil fuel CO2 can accumulate. It shows daily fossil CO2 over a 2 year period (2011-2012), starting with a concentration of *Zero*: "By the end of 2012, the entire Northern Hemisphere is red, illustrating a total accumulation of about 9 to 10 ppm of CO2"
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Crazy weather. . . .
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This feels more germane than any other metric for planetary warming. We are accruing heat. Ie. The earth is gaining more heat than it loses to space. And this heat gain is steepening. Net gain means more heat means more VERY UNWELCOME energy in the earth’s system.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Re-upping because it's ongoing: www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/t... #Alberta #canpoli #ForeverCanadian
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Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims
Private details from a Washington D.C., meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state were revealed at a separatism event attended by DeSmog.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 07/10/2025
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...
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How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/10/2025
Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat
Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here’s a look at the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation’s (BCI) grade relative to other major 🇨🇦 public sector pension managers. As noted, BCI earned a shockingly low overall score of C- (same as last year). Follow along 👇 as we look at BCI’s scores in all 6 climate categories. 2/x
2024 Climate Report Card showing grades for BCI and other big Canadian public sector pension investment managers. BCI is nearly last, with a grade of C minus.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 15/09/2025
As Canada experiences its second-worst wildfire season on record, drinking water across B.C. is at risk, as watersheds are threatened and transformed by flames. @annecasselman.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/wildfires-th...
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How wildfires threaten B.C.’s drinking water | The Narwhal
Communities from Cranbrook to Kelowna know wildfires can contaminate drinking water. Experts say protecting watersheds is an urgent priority
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
People think of fire as fire. But in today’s burning world we have to think of how fire affects our water infrastructure, which in this province can be the very same forested watershed that is burning too hot.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 21/08/2025
Critical look under the hood of freedom of information and police corruption by CTV Vancouver - take your time with it. Especially the correspondence among cops about info requests. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare
Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.
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Grist @grist.org · 20/08/2025
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy. The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #California #CA #Energy #Renewables #Solar #Wind #Batteries #Climate #Policy
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California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"But nearly three years later, it’s becoming clearer and clearer — the Massachusetts millionaires tax has been a total success, and an incredible benefit for our state’s businesses. " #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
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The Fair Share Amendment is delivering - CommonWealth Beacon
Nearly three years after its passage, it’s becoming clear that the millionaires tax has been a total success, and an incredible benefit for our state’s businesses.
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