Seems a little risky, but pretty hilarious:
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350 or bust: To Err Is Human
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and here’s a fascinating talk by “wrongologist” Kathryn Schultz, on the human tendency to be wrong about just about everything. * “This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often, is not a reliable guide to what is actually going on in
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Dear President Obama: In Canada climate change affects none of our decisions
Friday, February 21, 2014 When U.S. President Obama met with Prime Minister Harper earlier this week, he highlighted the importance of considering climate change in key energy decisions, like the Keystone XL, but was polite enough not to highlight that Canadian energy decisions do their best to ignore climate change.
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Selling prosperity in a time of austerity: Budget days in BC and Quebec
Two very different provincial governments tabled their budgets this week. The freshly-elected BC Liberals and the seemingly election-ready Parti Quebecois both delivered what they termed “responsible” budgets. While the two governments identify with opposing ends of the political spectrum and face distinct political climates, these differences did not prevent their
Continue reading350 or bust: 8 Years Of Stephen Harper – Dislike!
The NDP youth wing has gotten creative with a spoof Facebook “look back” video highlighting some of the low points of Canadian politics over the last eight years of the Harper government. * NDP Youth Wing Creates a Facebook Video – For Harper
Continue reading350 or bust: Former President Of Ireland: Urgent Need For Action on Climate Change
* The recent extreme flooding in the UK and Ireland has highlighted the devastating effect our changing climate can have; but if we do not take action fast, future generations will experience weather shocks on a far greater scale. Our planet is warming to a catastrophic extent, and the human
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Barack to Steve, Let’s Deal with Climate Change
“He Didn’t Hear a Word I Said.” After their private tete-a-tete in Mexico, the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada each released summaries of their discussion. When it comes to climate change you might, on reading the summaries, think they weren’t even in the same
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Have Missed Him
But he’s back! My favourite crazed evangelical, and I hope yours, Pat Robertson, is once again making ‘newsworthy’ statements. Watch below as this preacher of the preposterous, this evangelical of the extreme, holds forth on yet another topic from his prodigious repertoire of ‘expertise’. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Study: Arctic getting darker, making Earth warmer
Photo by Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, NOAA Corps, ret., courtesy Wikimedia Commons Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Arctic isn’t nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that’s turning out to be a global problem,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Gwynne Dyer – Blame the Sky Gods
Gwynne Dyer thinks it was a nasty trick. It was, after all, supposed to be the poor and vulnerable little people of the equatorial zone that were hammered by climate change, not us. Well, what did you expect? The gods of climate are almost certainly sky gods, and sky gods
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: It’s Spelled Climate BREAKDOWN
Calgary’s massive flood. Let’s stop saying “global warming” because whenever climate breakdown events occur that are COLD, deniers try to say global warming isn’t happening. Sigh. Let’s also stop saying “climate change” because that sometimes makes people feel that yes, we’d like a climate more like Palm Springs. Especially in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Is Going to Trash Real Estate Prices
Starting this year, buyers shopping for a nice coastal dream home in the U.S. will be able to consult ‘storm surge maps’ produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That is, unless Congress kills this idea before it came come to pass. Starting this 2014 hurricane season, NOAA’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Big Freeze and the Con Climate Change Deniers
It's the winter that seems to have gone on forever. The bay is frozen solid.Like much of the Great Lakes.And I can't wait begin for it to warm up. Not just because I've got a roaring case of cabin fever.But also because the birds who live in the bay are
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Climate Change: Bill Nye Uses Science, The Right Wing Relies On Ideology
You decide who is right: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Climate scientist’s defamation suit threatens to topple conservative publication
The legal battle between climate scientist Michael Mann (left) and conservative columnist Mark Steyn (right) is heating up. Read this February 3rd article by Andrew Breiner in Climate Progress about climate scientist Michael Mann’s lawsuit against National Review columnist Mark Steyn, which threatens the magazine’s future. The price of attacking
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the basic economic lessons the U.S. has forgotten since its postwar boom: First, America’s real job creators are consumers, whose rising wages generate jobs and growth. If average people don’t have decent wages there can be no real recovery
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Speaking Of Stupidity….
Bill Nye and Bill Maher offer an entertaining and informative analysis of this growing phenomenon: Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Murray Dobbin points to the oil sector’s utter domination of Canada’s federal political scene. And Dr. Dawg sums up the problem: Briefly, the Harperium has now taken to grossly misusing the state apparatus to spy upon and intimidate citizens who dare to disagree
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