Three-time mayor Melissa Blake on AGW: “I’m a big believer that, yes, the climate is changing. If the climate goes up by two, three, four degrees in the future, we’re lucky to be here in Fort McMurray. We’re lucky not to be in California or BC. They’re going to fall
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Its David Rose
So its best to ignore him when he writes on the issue of Global Warming or, really, on any issue, but this bit: The continuing furore caused by The Mail on Sunday’s revelations – which will now be amplified by the return of the Arctic ice sheet – has forced
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper’s New Enviro Plan: Show Me The Money
…or, more precisely, the cuts in Carbon Emissions. Simon Donner of UBC has it right: @tyler_bryant @StephenLeahy Right. Climate value of “trading” pipeline for GHG reduction elsewhere will depend on the numbers— Simon Donner (@simondonner) September 6, 2013 …which is to say that a deal is doable, if whatever Keystone
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper Government Enviro Plan: Do Anything But Regulate CO2
“As an Arctic nation, Canada profoundly understands the climate and public health benefits of reducing short-lived climate pollutants, such as black carbon and methane,” said Minister Aglukkaq. “I look forward to meeting with my international colleagues to advance the collective efforts of the CCAC.” Canada’s North is especially sensitive to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: No Wonder Mark Steyn
…is considering a run for the U.S. Senate. He may need an extra income source if Mike Mann’s defamation case against the National Review goes the way it appears to be headed: “The Court finds that there is sufficient evidence in the record to demonstrate that Plaintiff is likely to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Looks Like Keystone XL Faces Another Delay
The investigation of an alleged conflict of interest by a U.S. State Department contractor reviewing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline won’t be complete until January. The State Department’s Office on the Inspector General announced today that it was reviewing whether recommendations it made in a separate February 2012 report into
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Carbon Taxes And The Poor
From Simon Donner, and offered here without comment: The fundamental objective of carbon controls is to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to climate change. A primary reason to combat climate change is to protect those most vulnerable to its effects. Pretty much every analysis, not to mention every
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The State Of Surface Temperatures
From Simon Donner, about as clear an explanation I’ve heard re the “pause” in AGW (which isn’t really a “pause” in any case): Over the past 10-15 years, the global mean surface air temperature did not increase at the rate of the previous decades. The cause of the slowdown is primarily
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Mann Vs. Steyn: Mann Takes A Round
In October of last year, climate scientist Michael Mann filed suit against Mark Steyn and the National Review for a piece Steyn wrote in that publication, and against the Competitive Enterprise Institute for a piece that appeared earlier on its blog. The articles in question described Mann’s hockey stick graph,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Environment Ministers And Petcoke
From Impolitical: CTV was reporting that Peter Kent may be moving on and therefore would be out as Environment Minister. Not sure there’s much a new Canadian minister might do to sway the Obama administration but Keystone has got to be figuring into Harper’s thinking. Is Rempel, currently the Parliamentary Secretary
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Jet Stream, The Calgary Floods, And Global Warming
One day I want to do an in-depth post on gradually changing attitudes among climate scientists re attributing individual events to global warming. This is not that post. Instead I’ve just ripped some text from Dr. Jeff Masters at Wunderground that talks about how unusual patterns in the jet stream brought
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heatland Institute Vs. Chinese Academy Of Science, Round II
Last week the Heartland got into it with Chinese Academy of Science. The academy had seen fit to translate HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered reports, and PR guy Jim Lakely from the institute suggested that this counted as an endorsement of the think-tank’s position re global warming. But no; CAS begged
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper Owes Us A Plan
From Simon Donner, of UBC:For about a decade, the explanation for a lack of coherent Canadian climate policy was the lack of a coherent American climate policy. How could our federal government move forward with actions like regulations, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards, international agreements or adaptation plans without our
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The President’s Climate Action Plan
From the fact sheet:We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged, and by taking an all of-the-above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut carbon pollution, we can protect our kids’ health and begin to slow the effects
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Chinese Academy Of Sciences Issues A Statement; Heartland Institute Issues A Grovelling Apology
First, from the CAS site: The Chinese translation of the “Climate Change Reconsidered—NIPCC Report” was organized by the Information Center for Global Change Studies, Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was published in May 2013 through Science Press. However, the Heartland Institute
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What’s Bugging The Great Lakes?
GLEAM, the Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping Project, has a series of interactive maps of Great Lake Stressors. I’ve included a couple related to Global Warming: Water Level Change Water Temperature Warming Decreased Ice Cover As you can see, T.O. and surrounding gets off pretty easy in regards to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Heartland Institute/CAS Story Makes UK Guardian
And the story links back to me, so you know its got cred.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cooperation Between The Heartland Institute And The Chinese Academy Of Sciences: Much Less than Meets The Eye
Breitbart News has reported that the Heartland Institute–an infamous U.S. think-tank that shilled for both the oil and tobacco companies in times past–has teamed up the with Chinese Academy of Sciences to publish HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered documents, which are attempted “rebuttals” of the IPCC consensus report on global warming:The volumes,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canada Leading The Way On Climate Change!
When it comes to making the seas rise, our glaciers are kicking ass!The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Cost Of Solar Power
A nice chart, from here: The graph above compares the price history of solar energy to conventional energy sources. This is what a disruptive technology looks like. While conventional energy prices remained pretty flat in inflation adjusted terms, the cost of solar is dropping,fast, and is likely to continue doing
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