I have phrased this post’s title as tactfully as I can, but I think if you watch the following video, you will be tempted to use other, more obvious ways to describe right-wing American cognitive abilities. You will notice that as soon as the Fox host…
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The Progressive Economics Forum: Notes on the social cost of carbon
A recent paper by Ackerman and Stanton did some re-estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon, finding this measure of the externality (or costs imposed on third parties) from burning fossil fuels could be as high as $893 per tonne of CO2, rising to $1,500 per tonne by 2050. These are extreme estimates, but they […]
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Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a whole lot has been going on the global warming front, and not just the extr…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Global Warming Solved: Fire The Scientist
Remember how Obama said all that stuff about the importance of whistleblowers to keep government honest? Yeah, well, you might want to ask Bradley Manning the punchline to that particular joke. But it seems that the persecution of anybody who says anyt…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Decarbonizing homes and the price of gas
Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the lowest prices in North America, […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn’t some Tory bagman who isn’t willing to try and sell it to us as a golden egg, when it is in fact toxic poison. Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to the seriously disgusting Immig…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Today’s Climate Change Quirk
It’s another of those never-ending “once in a century” stories. The heaviest rainfall in a century has triggered devastating floods and landslides in the Seoul area of South Korea. The quirky bit is that the landslides have expo…
Continue readingThe Harper regime targets @frankejames
Franke James » Blog Archive » Canadian Government Tries to Silence Franke JamesWe can’t really say we’re surprised, now, can we. Subtle and not-so-subtle threats, putting the squeeze on NGOs and making sure anyone thinking of sponsoring the show know…
Continue reading350 or bust: Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said, like Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg,…
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
This is a time to hold Norway and Norwegians, especially the victims of the horrific bombing and shooting rampage, in our thoughts and prayers. Extremism of any kind is a blight on civilization.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: An observation of mine on the weather/climate change
When a cold snap or a blizzard hits the US deep South, those people who are climate change skeptics are quick to denounce “global warming” or “climate change” as being fake, or hooey, or so on.
I’ve not heard that same cla…
The Happy Wanderer: Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don’t we have AC on Montreal’s public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it’s too expensive and it decreases fuel efficiency, thereby harming the environment. Yet, …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don’t we have AC on Montreal’s public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it’s too expensive and it decreases fuel efficiency, thereby harming the environment. Yet, …
Continue reading350 or bust: Murdoch-gate meets “Climate-gate”
What we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg. Keith Olbermann wrote yesterday on his blog about the connection between Murdoch’s News Corp and the stolen “climate-gate” emails: The …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Really Is the Pot Calling the Kettle BlackP
America’s UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a security matter meriting the council’s attention.US ambassador Susan Ric…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Insurance Corporations Believe In Climate Change
Never let it be said that all of the banks and corporations on the planet have their head in the sand when it comes to climate change. Why, just recently, I received a letter from my home insurance provider telling me about some important changes to my…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Home energy retrofits: part one
I was in the budget lock-up in Ottawa back in 2009, when the feds announced a home renovation tax credit as part of the stimulus package, and one of my first thoughts was “kitchen reno”. Months later we had a nice kitchen upgrade to enjoy as our contribution to getting the Canadian economy back on […]
Continue readingThe energy ministers’ Orwellian statement
The news release and action plan issued by the provincial energy ministers following their recent conference in Kananaskis stepped rather lightly over environmental concerns. Perhaps this is not unexpected at a meeting paid for in part by oil companies…
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada, A PetroState? The Face Of Climate Corruption in Canada
From The Mark News: Energy ministers from across Canada have just returned from an all-expenses-paid tour of the tar sands, given to them by the oil companies themselves. Now, they are sitting down to debate the future of energy policy in Canada at a m…
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