OTTAWA – The Conservative government has responded to an international report on “unequivocal” global warming by slamming past Liberal inaction and renewing its warning of an alleged NDP carbon tax. The latest report Friday from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the planet is heating up and that it’s
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Global warming will be long with us
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls it the “greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.” He is, of course, referring to climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presented the first installment of its Fifth Assessment Report Friday and it has much of interest to say
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“The Panel says we are hurtling toward the day when climate change could be irreversible with catastrophic consequences, they say. This group is now 95% sure that humans are responsible, and it’s only going to get worse if we don’t take drastic measures.” Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news,
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Jimmy Kimmel’s humorous, if cynical, take on U.S. politics:
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Planet Burners
You couldn't ask for a scarier example of what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada, and what he is planning to do to the planet, than seeing how him and his ghastly Con regime reacted to this grim scientific warning. The world's leading climate scientists have set out in detail for the first
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Climate change proven beyond a reasonable doubt
Friday, September 27, 2013 The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the first of 4 reports that make up its 5th Assessment Report. This first report documents the scientific consensus related to rising global temperatures, confirming that humans are “extremely”, or 95%, likely to be
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Coal Hard Facts #cdnpoli
It’s super embarrassing to have these sorts of puppet, lying people in office, when it’s so critically important for Canada to be making REAL, FACTUAL efforts against climate change. .@leonaaglukkaq You must seriously not understand the words coming out of your fingers. It's embarrassing. #coal #cdnpoli #FromTheFuture?— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina)
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: IPCC: Time for a Global Carbon Budget
Political commitments on climate action, to the extent they exist, are usually pitched in terms of targets and timelines. BC, for example, has a legislated target of 33% below 2007 levels by 2020; Canada’s official target is a 17% reduction by 2020 relative to 2005 levels. Neither target will be
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "Unequivocal"
Leaving no doubt; clear; unambiguous. The latest IPCC report concludes that mankind’s influence in driving climate change is beyond doubt, clear and unambiguous. Anthropogenic global warming is here, it’s here to stay and, unless we want a better future enough to change our ways, it’s going to get a hell
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Panel: Climate change ‘extremely likely’ man-made
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change STOCKHOLM – Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday. Calling man-made warming “extremely likely,”
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Attacks on climate change science hinder solutions
photo: Dan Crosbie Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians have unleashed a barrage of attacks designed to discredit the science before it’s released. Expect more to come. Many news
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper gives cold shoulder to Ban Ki-Moon on Climate Change (repost)
I did this picture in May 2010. There has been change for the worse. Now that Harper has majority he has become full time salesman for oil companies, Tar Sands, Crude-oil pipeline etc.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Scientists as certain of climate change as they are that smoking kills
by Seth Borenstein – Associated Press WASHINGTON – Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Staple Theory @ 50: Introduction to a Special Blog Series
In my job as economist for Unifor (and before that the CAW), I have had a long-time interest in more sustainable and sensible policies for managing Canada’s resource wealth. The challenge, given the lucrative but fleeting nature of resource booms, is to leverage Canada’s resource wealth in a manner that
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ex-Harper Minister Solberg renews Flat Earth Society membership
Flat Earth map from 1893, containing several references to biblical passages and jabs at “Globe Theory” Writing in the Calgary Sun the other day, former Conservative Party Cabinet Minister Monte Solberg claims there is “good news on the climate front.” Now before we get into this too far, this is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Greetings from Global Warming. Now Pay Up or Else.
It doesn’t matter how certain they are that climate change is a hoax. They’re still going to have to pay up. The U.S. federal flood insurance programme (private sector insurers said ‘adios’ long ago) is bringing home the reality of climate change in the form of massive premium increases for
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: New York Times editorial slams Harper’s muzzling scientists
A recent rally for science in Vancouver (photo: Damien Gillis) Even The New York Times is starting to question Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s anti-science agenda, which recently spurred 17 cross-Canada “Stand Up for Science” rallies. In this Sept. 22 Sunday Times editorial, Verlyn Klinkenborg calls attention to muzzling scientists in defence of Harper’s oil
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This beautiful video is set to the words theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988). * * The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Climate Change According to Sask Party Government
This government page will almost certainly disappear at some point on the original website, so here is a backup: Climate change is a long term shift in weather patterns. Since the industrial age the burning of fossil fuels has resulted in increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in our
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