Sierra Club of Canada News Release Friday, January 19, 2007 (Ottawa) The Conservative government’s commitment to a five fold expansion of tar sands oil production is totally inconsistent with promises this week to take the climate crisis seriously. “Canada’s regulatory processes are already heavily biased in favour of promoting oil production and export and fail to consider impacts on climate,†said Stephen Hazell, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada. “To further erode...
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Carbon tax as a solution
Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post has an interesting and thought provoking article this morning. While I disagree with her asessment of the Kyoto Protocol (while flawed, it was a necessary first step and would have been somewhat successful had the USA shown some leadership), I think she is right on the money with her support of a carbon tax. A tax on all carbon-based energy sources would immediately encourage people and corporations to reduce...
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday February 2, 2007 The Guardian The Arctic habitat of polar bears is under threat as climate change causes ice to melt. Photograph: Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage/APÂ Â Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank...
Global Warming Obstructionism
Now that the USA is finally beginning to fall inline with everyone else, looks like Chian has decided to take the lead on obstruction and denial. By David Biello, Scientific American, February 1, 2007: Word from participants who shall remain nameless is that China has taken the lead in global warming obstructionism in 2007. “China is being very difficult,” says one, who asked not to be named. “ the only country who opposes...
The White House and the Scientists
Hot on the trails of a KGB-like move by the White House to control its scientific agencies, today was the beginning of Senate hearings into alleged manipulations of science reports by the Bush Administration. Shocking, really. And this is supposed to be the most civilized, free, and democratic country in the world? Mass delusion is more like it. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. scientists felt pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit...
Another Species of Denial
The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th January 2007. George Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what’s new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the US government now insists that we find ways to block some of the sunlight reaching the earth. This means...
More refreshing news from the USA
The State of Virginia just released a report on climate change and the threats it poses for the State. It even calls fo the creation of a commission to study the problem. It is even more suprising that the report was created by a group of 10 scientists, industry representatives, and environmentalists. Sounds like the US may finally be coming around on the issue of Global Warming. Better late then never.
United States Climate Action Partnership
The United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) is a group of American companies who decided to do something about climate change. They put forward the following six principles that they would like the US Government to embrace (good luck): Account for the global dimensions of climate change; Create incentives for technology innovation; Be environmentally effective; Create economic opportunity and advantage; Be fair to sectors disproportionately impacted; and Reward early action. They have also published a report...
CBC’s The Denial Machine
This is an excellent don’t hold any punches investigative report by CBC’s The Fifth Estate. It talks about how Big Oil and the Republicans have systematically created a denial machine and instilled doubts in the public’s mind. Well worth watching until the end. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=522784499045867811&q=Fifth+Estate&hl=en-CAÂ
Middle Stance Emerges in Debate Over Climate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: January 1, 2007, The New York Times Amid the shouting lately about whether global warming is a human-caused catastrophe or a hoax, some usually staid climate scientists in the usually invisible middle are speaking up. The discourse over the issue has been feverish since Hurricane Katrina. Seizing the moment, many environmental campaigners, former Vice President Al Gore and some scientists have portrayed the growing human influence on the climate...