Baffin Island tourists evacuated amid flood fears
sduford on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Environment
Things are melting really fast in the Canadian Arctic this year, causing all kinds of unwelcomed changes.
Here’s an article on another such event.
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This is gonna hurt — but we’ll be thankful later.
sduford on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Environment
An excellent article by journalist Dan Gardner. I very much agree with what he says.
Here’s an excerpt:
Like an addict kicking a habit, we will have to go through a period of painful withdrawal. But the good news is that, in time, we will all agree it was for the best.
America is doomed
sduford on Jun 28 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Politics, Renewable Energy
The things that Bush can say and do while maintaing a straight face are just amazing. His pandering to his oil industry buddies knows no bounds.
He is perfectly OK with authorizing drilling for oil off the pristine coast of Alaska, but he has just put a freeze on solar farms in the desert because he [...]
Report from the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
sduford on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Scientists
A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, a Bush appointed comittee.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm
Political Manipulation of EPA Science
sduford on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Scientists
It’s no secret that the Bush Administration and the Harper government both censor scientists on a regular basis, making sure that nothing that could harm their energy industry bodies gets out. Scientists from NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Environment Canada have complained about this fact for several years. The EPA even famously cancelled a report on [...]
Senator Boxer Bashes EPA Head: “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It”
sduford on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: Environment
From The Daily Green:
It was California Senator Barbara Boxer versus EPA head Stephen L. Johnson yesterday on Capitol Hill.
It wasn’t even a close match.
In an extraordinary hearing on Johnson’s much-maligned decision to deny California and 14 other states the right to cut tailpipe emissions, committee head Barbara Boxer was quoted as saying:”You’re going against your [...]
Oil Sand Disaster Denial
sduford on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Politics
I have discussed in these pages the environmental disaster of biblical proportion that is caused by oil sand exploitation in northern Alberta. Now it looks like Premier Stelmach is in total denial. It’s amazing how low people can sink just for money.
Reposted from DeSmogBlog.
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Washington, DC today hyping his province’s [...]
Report pans environmental record of tar sands companies
sduford on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Environment
The exploitation of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is an economic disaster of epic proportions. Now the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund have issued a scathing report on the lack of effort from the industry to do better, and from the government to oversee and regulate them.
By BOB WEBER
The Canadian Press
January 10, [...]
Harper and Bush’s little plan to ruin the planet.
sduford on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics
As a follow-on to my previous post on our little Canadian Dictator and his position on Global Warming, here’s a very nice little explanation of what is really going on, courtesy of DeSmogBlog.
If you owned a distillery, you would probably not be in favour of prohibition.
So it is little wonder why Harper is opposed to [...]
The Night Shift
sduford on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environment, Global Warming
Here’s an excellent article by Keith Farnish of The Earth Blog. In this blog entry he discusses how moving some of your electricity consumption to the wee hours of the night can greatly reduce the overall electricity production capacity that needs to be constantly “on-line”.
Well worth reading here.