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- A parent's thoughts on BC's new K-12 reporting system
- Type I and Type II Error Avoidance and its Possible Role in the Climate Change Debate
- On Lukewarmism, denial and a look at the state of the environmental movement
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Author Archives: Blair
Questioning the pedagogy of collective punishment – we shouldn’t punish good kids for the behavior of their peers.
Imagine you are an employee at a busy office. You spend your day working hard to meet your deadlines and keep your clients happy. It being the middle of football season, Brad and Janet are off in the corner arguing … Continue reading
What does the science say about CAPE’s – Fossil Fuel Ads Make Us Sick campaign?
Regular readers of this blog know of my ongoing disappointment with the MDs at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). No group has so consistently disappointed me with the variance between the reports they are capable of … Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuel Free Future, Risk Communication, Uncategorized
Tagged air-pollution, Climate Change, environment, health, news
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Understanding the asbestos risks associated with any search of the Prairie Green Landfill
A lot has been written in the media, and on social media, about the proposal to search the Prairie Green Landfill for the victims of Jeremy Skibicki. It is believed that the bodies of at least two, and possibly more … Continue reading
A parent’s thoughts on BC’s new K-12 reporting system
I am the parent of three school-aged children, the husband of a teacher, a long-time DPAC Representative and am the former PAC President in a school that piloted the new grading and report card system in the Langley School District. … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Politics, Uncategorized
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Are Gas Stoves Really Responsible for 12.7% of Current Childhood Asthma Cases in the US?
The news has been full recently with stories about the risk of childhood asthma caused by natural gas stoves. As someone who specializes in risk assessment and has experience with indoor air chemistry this seemed like it was right up … Continue reading
Understanding Risk Assessment as a form of Sustainable and Green Remediation
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to write more posts that explain, in plain language, how our environmental regime in BC protects the public with respect to contaminated sites and to help clear up common misconceptions about contaminated sites. … Continue reading
Understanding the role of, and opportunities for, Canadian fossil fuels in our net zero future
In my review of Seth Klein’s A Good War, I took issue with the author’s statement that in order to fight climate change we need to eliminate the fossil fuel industry. I have repeatedly pointed out how ridiculous that claim … Continue reading
Posted in Oil Sands, Pipelines, Uncategorized
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Reviewing Seth Klein’s A Good War – An interesting historical treatise that ignores the details of climate science
In A Good War the author makes it clear he really doesn’t understand our climate challenge from a technical and scientific perspective. To use a metaphor from the book, the author builds his cathedral using a flawed foundation, resulting in a structure unable to support his basic premise. It is worth the read for the historical perspective it provides but sadly like many recent tomes on climate change, the book has less to do with fighting climate change and more to do with eliminating/defeating Neoliberalism Continue reading
BC’s new School Food Guidelines: an attempt by bureaucrats to squeeze the joy out of our kids’ childhoods while stripping away parental choice
I am the parent of three school-aged kids and the president of our local elementary school Parent Advisory Council (PAC). Last night our PAC looked at BC’s Proposed 2022 BC School Foods Guidelines For Food & Beverages in K-12 Schools … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Politics, Uncategorized
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Why you needn’t fear the “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables
There are certain things you can count on with the coming of spring. Two of the earliest are the arrival of the first Mexican and Californian strawberries in the produce aisle and the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) annual “Dirty Dozen” … Continue reading
A Chemist in Langley 