Scott Forbes🇨🇦

If we're making the world uninhabitable, nothing else matters. #OnePlanet

Planning for 3°C doesn't make it survivable - but it makes it seem so As Ben Shread-Hewitt and I explain in this recent article...

A goldfinch for #Branched, the #BirdOfTheDay theme of birds on thin branches. 🪶

Helen's choices for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme are: #OnOneLeg - birds seen balancing on one leg! Alt: Is #SpottySpeckled - any bird with spotted or speckled plumage. This Canada Goose stretched gracefully while on one leg! #birds #photography #ECK

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnOneLeg, birds balancing on one leg. Here's a great egret with one leg tucked away, looking rather like it's growing out of this tree. 🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #BlueskyMonday

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

🪶 Helen has chosen #OnOneLeg as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds seen balancing on one leg Alternative Is #SpottySpeckled; any bird with spotted or speckled plumage - A small flock of Sanderling sleeping on one leg at the seashore #birdphotography #ECK #birds #birdsofbluesky #naturephotography

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #OnOneLeg, birds balancing on one leg. This also works for #MallardMonday. #Birds 🪶

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

This should be required reading in Canada. www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...

My two principal study species over the years! 🪶

Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BrownBirds: any bird with mostly brown plumage. From last spring on Lake Manitoba: a female shoveler standing on the ice. I was trying to hide in the bushes when I took the shot. #Birds 🪶

My take? Eby's snap election moved up what was going to happen anyway. They were going to lose the next election under Eby. A long-in-the-tooth centre-right NDP govt with a charisma-free leader was ripe for the picking. Now they have a chance to reinvent themselves as a genuine progressive party.

A new phrase just entered the political lexicon: pulled an Eby. #BCelection

Osprey #Birds #LMNO #BIF ©RBrooks

It's amazing how much work is going into NOT building out solar, wind, and batteries at a time when they are by far the cheapest and fastest way to add generation capacity. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Thanks to Nanaimo News Now for this story. Canadians expect MPs to represent their communities and hold government accountable. When a reporter contacted me about concerns from Aaron Gunn’s constituents, I felt it was important to respond. 1/5

South Korea is betting big on clean energy with an ambitious plan to cut fossil fuel dependence. The plan would add 100 GW of renewables by 2030, accelerate EV adoption and cut emissions from heavy industry, all while improving energy security.

Rob says: Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #LMNO, any bird whose name starts with one of those letters. The Alt theme is #Robins, any Robin Species A female Northern Shoveler having a stretch! (A Green-winged Teal in the background.) #birds #photography #ECK

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #LMNO, any bird whose name starts with one of those letters. The Alt theme is #Robins, any Robin Species. #birds #ECK #CanonR5mkii #ForJanet @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social #birdphotography #ukbirding #NatureTherapy #naturephotography @rspb.bsky.social

This is just so completely messed up. What in the hell are you doing Mr. Carney? #EndFossilFuels #BurningThePlanet

Under the "O", ospreys for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #LMNO, any bird whose name starts with one of those letters. A couple of these pics date back to the 1980s when I did my doctoral work on these birds in the Creston Valley of BC. #Birds 🪶

My contribution to the #BirdOfTheDay #Juveniles An Osprey with her offspring, one on either side.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

For #BirdOfTheDay #Juveniles, a hybrid Clark's-Western Grebe juvenile yawning alongside dad.

This is insane. Parks Canada is getting gutted again just like Harper did.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Juveniles. A Northern Gannet (Jan van Gent), still in its speckled phase. My all time favorite photo of a juvenile bird. #birds #birdphotography #vogelfotografie #natuurfotografie #natuur #SonyAlpha #EastCoastKin

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Juveniles, a potpourri of youngsters - snipe, blackbirds, osprey. #Birds 🪶

Carney is proving to be perhaps the most environmentally unfriendly PM in my lifetime, certainly no better than Stephen Harper. This is what happens when you are in the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby. #BillC39 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

AB, covering for Helen today, says: Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Seasonal; any shot from Autumn/fall/whatever season you have now Alt. is #Corvids; any crow species A female Mallard relaxing on water coloured by Autumnal reflections! #birds #photography #ECK

Just a reminder that you don't have to be bitten to contract rabies. All it takes is saliva and an open wound. In the most common transmission of rabies in North America - by silver-haired bats - bites are uncommon. If you had any physical interaction with the skunk, best to seek medical attention.

World headed for warming of 2.8C, UN reports, based on present government policies… with the US standing out among developed economies with sharply higher energy-related emissions. #climate www.ft.com/content/76bf...

More likely that the separatist UCP will tell Smith to leave the party. 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Early post for #ThrushThursday, a Hermit Thrush! #birds #photography #ECK

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #seasonal, it's fall in southern Manitoba which means that geese are on the move. #Birds 🪶

Normally don’t watch hockey on Prime but when I heard the Ottawa game was on - featuring the return of Brady Tkachuk - I had to tune in. Ottawa fans did not let me down. #BradySucks

Oh FFS! 👇 Carney is a climate quisling. I won't make the mistake of voting for him again.

Today’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Colourful; any bird with 3 or more colors Keel-billed Toucan #Panama #birding #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #naturelovers #photographers #birdwatching #Bird