Kathryn Harrison
@profkharrison.bsky.social
Climate policy researcher, UBC Professor, chemical engineer, political scientist, feminist, cyclist. Persistently hopeful, but losing patience!
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New survey research released today with @mattomildenberger.bsky.social -- a response to the "don't say climate change" crowd. Many have observed that climate change has moved down voters' list of priorities and have concluded that pro-climate policies would cost votes. That's testable! 🧵[1/13]
July 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
New survey research released today with @mattomildenberger.bsky.social -- a response to the "don't say climate change" crowd. Many have observed that climate change has moved down voters' list of priorities and have concluded that pro-climate policies would cost votes. That's testable! 🧵[1/13]
Reflecting further on @climateinstitute.bsky.social's analysis published yesterday. Not included in the figure below is what difference the Carney government has made to the 2030-2050 projections through weakening + abandoning climate policies and supporting projects that will increase emissions. /1
NEW: Canada’s emissions are now more than 20 years behind on the country’s 2030 target.
Our latest analysis shows the policy choices that have Canada lagging and explains how to get back on track. 👇
https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/net-zero-canada-more-than-20-years-behind-2030-target/
Our latest analysis shows the policy choices that have Canada lagging and explains how to get back on track. 👇
https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/net-zero-canada-more-than-20-years-behind-2030-target/
September 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Reflecting further on @climateinstitute.bsky.social's analysis published yesterday. Not included in the figure below is what difference the Carney government has made to the 2030-2050 projections through weakening + abandoning climate policies and supporting projects that will increase emissions. /1
👇👇👇!!
The PM insists Canada is committed to net zero in 2050, but repealed and weakened policies mean we'll be lucky to hit our 2030 target by 2050.
Getting to net zero demands adopting policies NOW to ensure longterm transition. You don't get to your destination by going in the opposite direction.
The PM insists Canada is committed to net zero in 2050, but repealed and weakened policies mean we'll be lucky to hit our 2030 target by 2050.
Getting to net zero demands adopting policies NOW to ensure longterm transition. You don't get to your destination by going in the opposite direction.
NEW: Canada’s emissions are now more than 20 years behind on the country’s 2030 target.
Our latest analysis shows the policy choices that have Canada lagging and explains how to get back on track. 👇
https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/net-zero-canada-more-than-20-years-behind-2030-target/
Our latest analysis shows the policy choices that have Canada lagging and explains how to get back on track. 👇
https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/net-zero-canada-more-than-20-years-behind-2030-target/
September 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
👇👇👇!!
The PM insists Canada is committed to net zero in 2050, but repealed and weakened policies mean we'll be lucky to hit our 2030 target by 2050.
Getting to net zero demands adopting policies NOW to ensure longterm transition. You don't get to your destination by going in the opposite direction.
The PM insists Canada is committed to net zero in 2050, but repealed and weakened policies mean we'll be lucky to hit our 2030 target by 2050.
Getting to net zero demands adopting policies NOW to ensure longterm transition. You don't get to your destination by going in the opposite direction.
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📣 Join us to hear author and UC Santa Barbara political science professor @leahstokes.bsky.social sit down for a timely discussion with UBC political science professor Kathryn Harrison about her new book.
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📅 September 29
⏰ 3:30–5:00 PM
📍 Franklin Lew Forum, Allard
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📅 September 29
⏰ 3:30–5:00 PM
📍 Franklin Lew Forum, Allard
September 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
📣 Join us to hear author and UC Santa Barbara political science professor @leahstokes.bsky.social sit down for a timely discussion with UBC political science professor Kathryn Harrison about her new book.
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/lj036
📅 September 29
⏰ 3:30–5:00 PM
📍 Franklin Lew Forum, Allard
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/lj036
📅 September 29
⏰ 3:30–5:00 PM
📍 Franklin Lew Forum, Allard
Remarkable that fed govt released such an important report quietly just before a long weekend and the Minister wasn't available for comment. Same strategy for the Net Zero Act progress report last fall. Both in stark contrast to earlier reports.
From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, the impacts climate change will likely become even more pronounced in Canada, federal assessment finds, by @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien... via @theglobeandmail.com
Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation
From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 4, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Remarkable that fed govt released such an important report quietly just before a long weekend and the Minister wasn't available for comment. Same strategy for the Net Zero Act progress report last fall. Both in stark contrast to earlier reports.
Not sure the "Tragedy of the Horizon" analogy works when we're at that horizon yet still resisting action. I'm thinking Mark Carney underestimated Cdn govts' unwillingness to forgo $* from oil/gas.
* As owners, prov govts are themselves in the oil/gas business
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
* As owners, prov govts are themselves in the oil/gas business
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation
From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Not sure the "Tragedy of the Horizon" analogy works when we're at that horizon yet still resisting action. I'm thinking Mark Carney underestimated Cdn govts' unwillingness to forgo $* from oil/gas.
* As owners, prov govts are themselves in the oil/gas business
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
* As owners, prov govts are themselves in the oil/gas business
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
If you're a NYT subscriber, highly recommend the "Good List" weekly email of quirky, happy things. My fave this week is a site that shares word-wide locations of public pianos. I LOVE them! Looks like my home province, BC, has the highest per capita share, but QC ftw!
pianos.pub/location/can...
pianos.pub/location/can...
Public pianos in Canada | pianos.pub
Find public pianos in Canada, see their locations, and check recent availability reports.
pianos.pub
September 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you're a NYT subscriber, highly recommend the "Good List" weekly email of quirky, happy things. My fave this week is a site that shares word-wide locations of public pianos. I LOVE them! Looks like my home province, BC, has the highest per capita share, but QC ftw!
pianos.pub/location/can...
pianos.pub/location/can...
To honour Gloria Steinem, let us all -- women and men -- undertake an "outrageous act and everyday rebellion" to advance social justice today. And then again tomorrow, and the next day...
Feel free to share below what you're going to do or did.
Feel free to share below what you're going to do or did.
September 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
To honour Gloria Steinem, let us all -- women and men -- undertake an "outrageous act and everyday rebellion" to advance social justice today. And then again tomorrow, and the next day...
Feel free to share below what you're going to do or did.
Feel free to share below what you're going to do or did.
Led by "structural reductions in transport oil demand driven by electrification. Sinopec had forecast 6% and 5% drops in diesel and petrol consumption this year ... before the start of the war on Iran. Actual sales fell 9%" in first half of 2026.
Not a great time to spend $40B on a pipeline.
Not a great time to spend $40B on a pipeline.
NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/P3nHdbA
Read here: buff.ly/P3nHdbA
September 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Led by "structural reductions in transport oil demand driven by electrification. Sinopec had forecast 6% and 5% drops in diesel and petrol consumption this year ... before the start of the war on Iran. Actual sales fell 9%" in first half of 2026.
Not a great time to spend $40B on a pipeline.
Not a great time to spend $40B on a pipeline.
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Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.
Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley
(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...
docs.google.com
September 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Vancouverites: @leahstokes.bsky.social will be at #UBC 9/29 to talk about her new book, which is both an expert and personal account of passage of the US IRA. It's truly inspiring (despite Republican rollbacks) and we can all use some of that. Register here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
August 28, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Vancouverites: @leahstokes.bsky.social will be at #UBC 9/29 to talk about her new book, which is both an expert and personal account of passage of the US IRA. It's truly inspiring (despite Republican rollbacks) and we can all use some of that. Register here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Losing Dolly and Tim Curry the same day? no no no
August 27, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Losing Dolly and Tim Curry the same day? no no no
Insights from @tyolsen.bsky.social, who really knows the Fraser Valley!
A New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges: “It really seems to me like they’re picking names off; somebody in Alberta is circling names on a map and making that their submission.”
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
A New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges: “It really seems to me like they’re picking names off; somebody in Alberta is circling names on a map and making that their submission.”
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
In the Fraser Valley, a New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges | The Tyee
Getting through the steep, narrow stretch cost Trans Mountain billions. But Alberta’s plans to avoid a repeat is full of holes.
thetyee.ca
August 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Insights from @tyolsen.bsky.social, who really knows the Fraser Valley!
A New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges: “It really seems to me like they’re picking names off; somebody in Alberta is circling names on a map and making that their submission.”
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
A New Oil Pipeline Faces Mountains of Challenges: “It really seems to me like they’re picking names off; somebody in Alberta is circling names on a map and making that their submission.”
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
American friends, watch this if you want to understand the depth of Canadians’ anger about this trade war. And our determination. We will not be broken. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
FULL SPEECH | Carney explains why Canada suspended trade talks with U.S.
Prime Minister Mark Carney explained why the government chose not to sign a trade deal with American counterparts as U.S. President Donald Trump's 50 per cent tariffs on almost $30 billion of Canadian...
www.cbc.ca
August 22, 2026 at 7:13 PM
American friends, watch this if you want to understand the depth of Canadians’ anger about this trade war. And our determination. We will not be broken. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
It’s literal gaslighting to increase fossil gas consumption in the name of climate action. #bcpoli
thenarwhal.ca/bc-hydro-buy...
thenarwhal.ca/bc-hydro-buy...
BC Hydro just bought a gas power plant | The Narwhal
B.C. committed to generating only clean energy by 2030. Despite emissions reductions in mind because of wildfires, it bought a gas plant on Vancouver Island
thenarwhal.ca
August 22, 2026 at 6:32 PM
It’s literal gaslighting to increase fossil gas consumption in the name of climate action. #bcpoli
thenarwhal.ca/bc-hydro-buy...
thenarwhal.ca/bc-hydro-buy...
Canada is repealing its EV Available Standard to achieve 100% EV passenger vehicle sales by 2035. Although the govt has stated its intent to adopt regs equivalent to 75% by 2035, there's no text or schedule for that. Not holding my breath given Can-US trade negotiation gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 33: Regulations Amending the Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations
August 15, 2026, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 33, Canada Gazette
gazette.gc.ca
August 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Canada is repealing its EV Available Standard to achieve 100% EV passenger vehicle sales by 2035. Although the govt has stated its intent to adopt regs equivalent to 75% by 2035, there's no text or schedule for that. Not holding my breath given Can-US trade negotiation gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
I would have gone.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
Huge Edinburgh crowds gather on Calton Hill to watch 'man fold a fitted sheet'
"The real spirit of the Fringe is not dead"
www.edinburghlive.co.uk
August 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I would have gone.
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
The fossil fuel subsidies just keep coming.
The claim that TMX is making "oodles of money" (as Cdn Energy Minister described it) rests on clever accounting that downplays cost to taxpayers to build it.
Trans Mountain Looks to Slash Pipeline Shipping Fees via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
The claim that TMX is making "oodles of money" (as Cdn Energy Minister described it) rests on clever accounting that downplays cost to taxpayers to build it.
Trans Mountain Looks to Slash Pipeline Shipping Fees via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Trans Mountain Looks to Slash Pipeline Shipping Fees | The Tyee
The deal would leave the public on the hook for more of the TMX megaproject’s cost overruns.
thetyee.ca
August 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The fossil fuel subsidies just keep coming.
The claim that TMX is making "oodles of money" (as Cdn Energy Minister described it) rests on clever accounting that downplays cost to taxpayers to build it.
Trans Mountain Looks to Slash Pipeline Shipping Fees via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
The claim that TMX is making "oodles of money" (as Cdn Energy Minister described it) rests on clever accounting that downplays cost to taxpayers to build it.
Trans Mountain Looks to Slash Pipeline Shipping Fees via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Important analysis of how media report on climate and, separately, wildfires: industry, technology, and (distant!) net zero depicted positively; government/policy essential to achieve that goal more negatively.
victimshttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ottawa-climate-crisis-hushing
victimshttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ottawa-climate-crisis-hushing
The country is burning. The feds are hushing
Canada’s conversation about why heatwaves are happening and the federal government's plans to address the crisis are both as quiet as they have been in a decade.
www.nationalobserver.com
August 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Important analysis of how media report on climate and, separately, wildfires: industry, technology, and (distant!) net zero depicted positively; government/policy essential to achieve that goal more negatively.
victimshttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ottawa-climate-crisis-hushing
victimshttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/11/opinion/ottawa-climate-crisis-hushing
And it will keep getting worse as long as we keep burning fossil fuels. And no, no one’s suggesting we can do that overnight. But we have alternatives and we need to deploy them with greater urgency. The sooner we do, the better the outcome.
Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds
Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds
Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heating
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
And it will keep getting worse as long as we keep burning fossil fuels. And no, no one’s suggesting we can do that overnight. But we have alternatives and we need to deploy them with greater urgency. The sooner we do, the better the outcome.
My month-old grandchild is breathing unsafe air from wildfires. Canadians are evacuated and losing homes to wildfires. Firefighters are risking their lives. Cities across Europe are under red alert for life-threatening heat.
And our political leaders are promising to expand oil and gas production.
And our political leaders are promising to expand oil and gas production.
August 6, 2026 at 7:53 PM
My month-old grandchild is breathing unsafe air from wildfires. Canadians are evacuated and losing homes to wildfires. Firefighters are risking their lives. Cities across Europe are under red alert for life-threatening heat.
And our political leaders are promising to expand oil and gas production.
And our political leaders are promising to expand oil and gas production.
Can Eby Manage Growing NDP Divisions on LNG and Pipelines? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Can Eby Manage Growing NDP Divisions on LNG and Pipelines? | The Tyee
Duelling cabinet statements on the Tilbury project expose growing fault lines on emissions and risk of pollution.
thetyee.ca
August 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Can Eby Manage Growing NDP Divisions on LNG and Pipelines? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
4 stories on wildfire evacuations in news section of Globe & Mail yesterday, then these 3 in business section on booming profits of oil/gas companies that cause the problem. Worse than failure to link those the news stories, Canada is increasing subsidies for oil/gas as the world burns. #cdnpoli
August 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
4 stories on wildfire evacuations in news section of Globe & Mail yesterday, then these 3 in business section on booming profits of oil/gas companies that cause the problem. Worse than failure to link those the news stories, Canada is increasing subsidies for oil/gas as the world burns. #cdnpoli
Thoughts on announcement of a buyer for 2MT/yr of Ksi Lisims LNG for "up to 20 years," wording consistent with financial uncertainty for LNG as importers transition to domestic renewables. So we're de-risking private investments with public $$ and regulatory concessions.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
July 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Thoughts on announcement of a buyer for 2MT/yr of Ksi Lisims LNG for "up to 20 years," wording consistent with financial uncertainty for LNG as importers transition to domestic renewables. So we're de-risking private investments with public $$ and regulatory concessions.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
New Angus Reid poll: attention to climate is rebounding and voters most concerned are moving to the NDP and Bloc, causing the Liberal lead over CPC to shrink from 13% (Feb) to 4% (July). Decline in attention doesn't mean voters support weakening climate policies!
angusreid.org/climate-vote...
angusreid.org/climate-vote...
July 29, 2026 at 5:44 PM
New Angus Reid poll: attention to climate is rebounding and voters most concerned are moving to the NDP and Bloc, causing the Liberal lead over CPC to shrink from 13% (Feb) to 4% (July). Decline in attention doesn't mean voters support weakening climate policies!
angusreid.org/climate-vote...
angusreid.org/climate-vote...