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 vast reserves of oil-soaked tar sands. Not everyone was applauding Stelmach, and rightly so. According to news...
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2007 SmogMaker Awards
DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming. Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious public relations campaigns.
Winning the Oil End Game
Here’s a very interesting talk by Amory B. Lovins on weening ourselves off of oil while saving and creating jobs and fostering economic growth. He lists a bunch of simple ideas and shows their effect on oil consumption. This talk is based on his freely downloadable book which details all of his calculations so you can verify them for yourselves.
Harper and Bush’s little plan to ruin the planet.
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 binding emission targets at the UN climate negotiations in Bali. Harper’s adopted province of Alberta is home...
Harper must be removed from power, fast.
I am appalled by our Prime Minister’s behaviour on the environment. Clearly, he is driven purely by the money boom in his own Province of Alberta where the race to exploit the oil sands faster is causing billions of dollars to flow into the province. But oil sands processing is causing an environmental disaster of unprecedented proportions, destroying millions of acres of land, drying up rivers, and poisoning the aquifer while generating a huge...
The UN and Science
Jon, a recent commenter to this site whom I had to cut-off because of his political polemic and grossly misinformed statements, made an interesting comment yesterday. I’m not letting his comments through but I thought this point was worth debating. Jon asserts from the recent declaration by the UN (an organization he obviously despises) that they had overestimated the number of AIDS victims worldwide, proves that they cannot be trusted, and therefore the IPCC...
NASA stonewalls another US agency that wants to launch DSCOVR
Reposted from DeSmogBlog It has now been several months since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) formally requested that NASA transfer to them all DSCOVR assets – including of course the spacecraft itself. The response from NASA? Nothing. Nada. Zippo. Incredibly, NASA has so far completely ignored colleagues from another US government agency that want to make use of a $100 million spacecraft that NASA themselves stated last year they have no intention...
IPCC panel gives dire warming forecast
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer Sat Nov 17, 4:01 PM ET VALENCIA, Spain – The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said climate change imperils “the most precious treasures of our planet” and called on the United States and...
Hillary Clinton’s climate and energy plan
Finally, a US Presidential candidate takes a strong stance on Climate Change and realizes the potential it presents to create jobs and bring her country out of a gigantic slump. I hope she gets rewarded for it, and that she will deliver the goods. Read the full article…
Biofuels: An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
I’ve long been speaking out against the tragedy that is the push for biofuels. Today George Monbiot comes out strongly against this new fad in “green” energy. I have already seen the effects of these food crops being used for fuels, and the increase in food prices in places like Panama. Read Monbiot’s editorial here.