President Obama acknowledges that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline’s ability to create jobs is exaggerated, but won’t publicly acknowledge the pipeline’s climate impact. The post Obama Teases on Keystone XL, But Continues to Dodge Climate Peril appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
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Left Over: Here, KIti, Kiti, Kiti……..
China’s largest bank in deal to finance Kitimat refinery ICBC will also provide engineering and construction help to build refinery CBC News Posted: Apr 18, 2013 6:08 PM PT Last Updated: Apr 18, 2013 9:38 PM PT Fascinating, isn’t it, how the BC Liberals keep on sneaking around the public
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: British Columbia study advocates postconsumerist model of zero waste
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wilderness Committee calls for a radical rethink of British Columbia’s waste management policies. It argues that recycling can’t solve the province’s pollution problems and calls for a postconsumerist model of zero waste. While acknowledging
Continue reading350 or bust: Limiting Scientists’ Free Speech: A New Canadian Tradition
Ah, Rick, I love you, and your honesty and willingness to use your celebrity to remind Canadians what our nation has come to under Stephen Harper. Thanks! * Wondering what all the fuss is about? Listen to Dr. Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist from the University of Victoria, discuss the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: In 2012, richest 100 billionaires earned enough to end global poverty 4 times over: Oxfam
by Oxfam International | Jan 19, 2013 Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels An explosion in extreme wealth and income is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world’s ability to tackle poverty, Oxfam warned today in a briefing published ahead of the World Economic Forum
Continue readingBoreal Citizen: Occupy the MP Party / A Harper Year in Review
Parliament is winding down, and it’s getting close to Christmas…do you know where your politicians are? Most likely they’re boarding a plane and heading back home to sip egg nog with their constituents. Which has me thinking, why should Conservative MPs enjoy such a festive holiday when we citizens are
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Be a Young Liberal delegate to the next UN Climate Change Convention! Deadline to apply is tomorrow!
Click this link for more info I had the opportunity to go to the COP-15 Conference in Copenhagen back in 2009, and it was a remarkable experience for me. Young Liberals have developed a proud history now of sending delegates as part of the International Federation of Liberal Youth, and
Continue reading350 or bust: Summer of 2012: North Americans Begin to Harvest Climate Chaos They’ve Sown
A friend and newly graduated family physician told us a story about a young man who came to his clinic for medical advice. The young man was having a hard time adjusting to being away from home for the first time, and to his first full-time job, and was considering
Continue readingToo Much Geography: Don’t Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up
There has been a modicum of public outcry over the working of bill 37, the Animal Health Act, over whether people will be restricted from speaking publicly about threats to the food supply. To hear some folks, this is merely the first step on the road to a totalitarian thought police state.
Continue readingCanada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier. In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand. Do you believe? Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to
Continue readingCanada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier.
In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand.
Do you believe?
Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to…
Canada II: Joe Oliver: Confirmed Denier
It’s time to pick a side. Joe Oliver is a denier. In case you live under a rock here is the basis of the issue at hand. Do you believe? Mr. Speaker, we really do have a minister for the 19th century because the Minister of Natural Resources fails to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Monckton Pitches ‘Fox News Australia’ Idea To Mining Magnate, Seeks ‘Super-Rich’ Backers
monckton_boardroom.jpg BACK in July last year in a boardroom of a western Australian free-market think tank, the extrovert British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton was holding court. The topic for discussion? How to better capture the Australian media to help push a right wing, free-market and climate sceptic agenda. At the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Study Tracks Australian Climate Denial Echo Chamber Back to Think Tank
newspaper_generic.jpg EVER heard the one about climate scientists being a bunch of rent-seekers just out to chase taxpayers money, or the one where climate change scientists are just part of an elite left-wing conspiracy out to trample on the heretics? How about your nearest conservative columnist telling you that “green is
Continue reading97 out of 100 climate experts think humans are causing global warming
From John Cook’s Skeptical Science blog comes this intriguing bit of factoid goodness. The 97% figure comes from two independent studies, each employing different methodologies. One study surveyed all climate scientists who have publicly signed declarations supporting or rejecting the consensus (Anderegg 2010). Another study directly asked earth scientists the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Introducing: Deep Accountability
siberia001.jpeg This is the first in a series of occasional posts I’m writing to grow an idea I’m calling “Deep Accountability.” Currently, fossil fuel industry lobbyists, flacks, allied pundits, and government officials are far too comfortable dismissing concerns about what their pollution does to other people. In their minds, it’s a big country,
Continue readingbastard.logic: …and Michael Moore is FAT!
Terry Glavin, last True Leftist™ in Canada, finds the late, lamented Kyoto treaty (and environmentalism in general) wanting — and apparently it’s all Al Gore’s fault. No, really: Kyoto could have been an instrument to force technological innovation in the world’s advanced economies in such a way as to clear a
Continue readingThings Are Good: Help Santa Keep His Home This Christmas
The David Suzuki Foundation has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the lack of ice coverage at the North Pole. Where Will Santa Live? is a fun spin on a serious issue and looks like a good way to talk about ice coverage while keeping the conversation entertaining. “We’re
Continue readingThings Are Good: Follow the Durban Climate Conference
OneClimate has a good collection of live coverage from the Durban Climate Conference, also known as COP17. The conference started a few days ago and runs until the 9th of December. You can follow it here: Sorry this browser does not support frames
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Monckton Reaches New Heights of Anti-Environmentalism
daily_caller_screenshot.jpg CLIMATE science denial think-tank the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow is flying a four-strong delegation to next week’s UN climate conference in South Africa, with a promise to engage in a “balanced, civil and genuine” dialogue. But the chances of much civility appear to be somewhere between zero and naught,
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