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Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Ambrose Admits the Truth | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 16-11-06, 5:43 am
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The Kyoto Protocol is being used to divide Canada, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose told the UN Climate Conference today Yes by Ambrose and the Harpocrites. Of course thats not what she said. See: Rona Ambrose Environment Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about: Kyoto2, Kyoto, Nairobi, Kenya, UN,Canada, Conservatives, Government, parliament, politics, Ambrose,
| Psudeo-Science vs Real Science | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 16-11-06, 5:38 am
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Before accepting a newspaper reporters assertions that climate change is bunk, one should at least google data on said reporter. In this case right wing climate change denier Christopher Monckton. Otherwise known as 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. A former member of the Thatcher government.A newpaper reporter given to creating puzzles. Not a scientist. Top Tory in a kilt hit by visa 'racket'
| 0.6 degrees in one hundred years plus Jack Layton | |
Source: Gperson
Submitted: 15-11-06, 8:25 pm
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"Global Warming" or as I call it - Chicken Little's Gizzard. If you then add Bill Graham leader of Canada's official opposition and Liberal mp, you would get Canada's never ending commitment to the "Kyoto protocol". Sorry to be so blunt but it really disturbs me to read about our opposition parties screaming the murders
| Clueless Ambrose | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 15-11-06, 8:07 am
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Maybe she should have attended the Nairobi conference earlier. Then she would be in the know. Time for her to resign. The Prime Minister of France is urging the European Union to impose a punitive import tax on goods from countries such as Canada that refuse to sign on to a tougher second phase of the global warming deal. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was not aware of the details of the French proposal, a spokesman said
| Give it a break. | |
Source: Dark Blue Tory
Submitted: 14-11-06, 11:48 pm
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"I think right now we need to get our own house in order and we need to clean up our own back yard," she said. "We need to get our targets in place domestically so we can show the international community that we've made good progress." Exactly right. Those were comments made by Environment Minister Rona Ambrose in response to the media circus surrounding her visit to Kenya. Look, it's one thing to request that the government listen to an all-party committee and incorporate some ideas, but it's
| On influences | |
Source: Accidental Deliberations
Submitted: 14-11-06, 10:38 pm
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Given the extent to which the Cons' electoral strategy is supposedly based on the model followed by John Howard in Australia, it's worth wondering whether Howard's sudden turnaround on carbon emissions trading will lead PMS to reevaluate the Cons' repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol. But it seems all too likely that the Cons will gravitate toward Australia's current position, rather than recognizing and following the trend toward action on global warming.
| It's an award I can live with | |
Source: Canadianna
Submitted: 14-11-06, 9:49 pm
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"The majority of Canadians are firmly and strongly behind living up to our Kyoto obligations," said John Godfrey, the Liberal environment critic.Says who? Where were the Liberals on the environment these past many years --- doing nothing -- nothing that is except chanting 'we are committed to Kyoto' and hoping the mantra would stick.
| BC rednecks and Alberta hippies | |
Source: The Prairie Wrangler
Submitted: 14-11-06, 3:10 pm
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Hot on the heals of an Ipsos-Reid survey indicating that Albertans were among the Canadians most in favour of carbon taxes, those "hippies" from BC are showing their true environmental colours, which are decidedly less than hippie grade. "the fact that Mr. Campbell's government is considering the approval of two coal-fired power plants recently awarded long-term contracts by B.C. Hydro shows just how silly and hollow some of the Premier's ambitions truly are...
| Nairobi Fiddles While the World Burns | |
Source: The Upper Canadian
Submitted: 14-11-06, 2:55 pm
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There's been a barrage of reports pelting the delegates at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, none of them with good news: before the conference even opened, there was the Stern Review, then a report that atmospheric CO2 levels have increased by a half a percentage in 2005 alone, then a report on the widespread extinction birds face , a depressing report on the impacts on subsaharan Africa, increased outbreaks of disease, melting icecaps at both poles and so on, all calamitous singly, and a
| Not At The Top Of Their List | |
Source: Stageleft
Submitted: 14-11-06, 2:17 pm
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While Minister Ambrose is off in Kenya getting her Fossil of the Day award and explaining how doing nothing now, and only a little later on when our great grand-kids come of age, is progress, the CPoC government has taken another giant environmental step backwards.
| The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! | |
Source: Dust my Broom
Submitted: 13-11-06, 5:55 pm
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Via Drudge, the UN is actively promoting a new children’s book warning about the dangers of “manmade” global warming: A new United Nations children?s book promoting fears of catastrophic manmade global warming is being promoted at the UN Climate Change Conference in Kenya. The books main character, a young boy, is featured getting so worried about a coming manmade climate disaster that he yells ?I don?t want to hear anymore!? The new children?s book, entitled ?Tore and the Town on Thin Ice? is p
| Are we there yet? | |
Source: Green Tories - Canadian Conservatives Care
Submitted: 13-11-06, 5:47 pm
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Canada is getting on the ethanol and biodiesel bandwagon. But it's moving slowly, DENISE DEVEAU reports Ian Cameron and Steve Gray, co-founders of Cameron's Coffee, started out with the best of intentions when they vowed to use only biodiesel fuel blends in their small fleet of company cars. But three years later, ask Mr. Cameron how it turned out and he says with regret, "We're not [using biodiesel] any more. We simply couldn't find enough places to get it." Even when they tried to get a fuel
| Canadian Environment Minister Wins Award | |
Source: Stageleft
Submitted: 13-11-06, 4:45 pm
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When CPoC Environment Minister Rona Ambrose arrives at the United Nations climate change conference she will be presented with an award that other high profile international politicians concerned with the environment have also received.
| Interesting article critical of the climate change | |
Source: True North
Submitted: 12-11-06, 10:09 pm
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The Telegraph, a British paper, was brave enough to publish several major articles by Christopher Monckton, critical of the so-called "consensus" that scientists apparently have over the climate change issue. One thing Mr. Monckton notes is that the UN has conveniently forgotten about a period of time known as the "Medieval Warm Period". The UN, echoed by Stern, says the graph isn't important. It
| The Explanation For Rona Is Simple | |
Source: Kitchener Conservative
Submitted: 12-11-06, 10:03 pm
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Canada faces U.N. grilling over Kyoto abandonment OTTAWA (Reuters) - This is likely to be another rough week for embattled Canadian Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, who must explain to a summit on global warming why Ottawa has effectively abandoned the Kyoto protocol on climate change.The minority Conservative government, which says Canada cannot meet emissions cuts mandated by Kyoto, last month proposed clean air legislation that ignored the protocol and promised to impose binding cuts only b
| Capitalism Is Not Sustainable | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 12-11-06, 4:12 pm
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The Conservatives state the obvious, that Canada has not met its Kyoto targets. They then dismiss the targets as impossible to meet so why bother trying. But the fact is that the world has also missed its Kyoto targets. Greenhouse emissions grow more rapidly Greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing four times as fast as in the 1990s, giving added urgency to international talks on climate
| Kyoto and the Price To Be Paid | |
Source: Kitchener Conservative
Submitted: 12-11-06, 2:19 pm
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H/T: Blue Blogging Soapbox for pointing out Conservative Free Spirit who has an interesting point of view to add to the Kyoto debate."People will support the concept of Kyoto until the price exceeds that which they are willing to pay" - Conservative Free SpiritJust to add my 2 cents to the kyoto debate, I think a few factors perhaps lost in the kyoto/Global Warming argument:Reduction of greenery in cities in particular, trees, shrubs, etc. The benefits of Photosynthesis in the absorption of ligh
| Sweet! | |
Source: Anchorlink
Submitted: 11-11-06, 7:59 pm
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David Chernushenko, the senior deputy to the leader of the Green Party, has been named to the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy, a blue-chip panel that advises the federal government on environmental policy. About bloody time. David Chernushenko is awesome.
| Green deputy appointed by Tories to Enviro panel | |
Source: DevonRowcliffe.ca
Submitted: 10-11-06, 9:40 pm
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David Chernushenko, the senior deputy to the leader of the Green Party, has been named to the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy, a panel that advises the federal government on environmental policy. A written statement from Conservative environment minister Rona Ambrose stated: "With their knowledge and experience, Mr. Chernushenko, Mr. Haig and Dr. Jaccard, will be able to examine the environmental and economic implications of issues brought to the NRTEE and offer judiciou
| Green Party Gets Their Chance | |
Source: The Conscious Earth
Submitted: 10-11-06, 7:36 pm
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The Conservatives have reached out to the Green Party and will announce today that Deputy Green leader David Chernushenko will join the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy, a panel that advises Ottawa on environmental policy. CTV news is reporting that Rona Ambrose will make the announcement later today in an effort by the government to deflect the overwhelming criticism they have received following the release of their environmental plan.
| Another Example of Good Governance By Conservative | |
Source: Kitchener Conservative
Submitted: 10-11-06, 7:02 pm
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Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party show over and over why they deserve to be holding the reigns of government. Rona Ambrose will announce later today that: (CTV) David Chernushenko, the deputy leader of the Green Party, is to be named to the National Roundtable on Environment and the Economy, a blue-chip panel that advises the federal government on environmental policy. Something confusing in the story was "The move is seen as an attempt by the Tories to deflect some criticism over their
| Damned If You Do... | |
Source: Wudrick Blog
Submitted: 10-11-06, 7:00 pm
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CTV notes that the Tories are reaching out to the Green Party by appointing their deputy leader David Chernushenko to the National Roundtable on Environment and Economy. Of course, CTV couldn't resist injecting a little editorial:The move is seen as an attempt by the Tories to deflect some criticism over their handling of the environment file. By reaching across party lines, the Conservatives can claim that they are seeking out all viewpoints and policy advice to cut down on air pollution and r
| Planet saved! | |
Source: Daimnation!
Submitted: 09-11-06, 1:11 am
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"N.B. government bans SUVs for ministers" (via National Newswatch). Mark C....
| Economist: We can stop climate change and grow | |
Source: DevonRowcliffe.ca
Submitted: 03-11-06, 8:50 am
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An optimistic yet challenging vision for tackling climate change emerged from the UK on Monday, with the British government's release of a report entitled "The Economics of Climate Change". * Executive Summary * Full Report * Presentation Slides Written by former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern, the report is the first of its kind, pricing the expected cost of tackling climate change - but more importantly, also pricing the likely economic cost of inaction
| How much will climate change cost? | |
Source: Living In A Toxic World
Submitted: 03-11-06, 8:44 am
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Yesterday a report commissioned by the British government provided some startling figures about the potential costs of climate change. This page has the report, press release and other documents supporting the report. The costs could be as high as 20% of world GDP and create all the worst-case scenarios predicted by many others as a result of global warming. If you don't want top read the full report the NY Times has a good article summarizing the press conference and report.
| Relax ... Take a Deep Breath | |
Source: The Progressive Right
Submitted: 03-11-06, 7:55 am
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Sure, the fish will all be dead, but Canada will have reduced it's greenhouse gas emissions by half two years later!An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.Ah well, with cleaner air we can eat more birds, like crow.[H/T, My Blahg]Tags: canada, environment, world
| The Green President: George W. Bush? | |
Source: The Prairie Wrangler
Submitted: 02-11-06, 1:45 pm
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Is George W. Bush a green president? Oh God no. But he pushed a market based approach to wind farms in his home state of Texas which is paying substantial dividends, and reveals the folly of many environmentalists in adhering to a shortsighted and fanciful delusion when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions...
| What can't Global Warming cause? | |
Source: Political Staples
Submitted: 01-11-06, 7:33 am
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Just caught the lead story on CTV News about the economic impact of global warming. In the banter part of the story Robert Fife explained that weather is now a psychopath (I am paraphrasing) and is now unpredictable (to explain the snow we had on the weekend) and went on to explain that when he was a kid he went outside without a hat but he wouldn't do that for 20 minutes now.
| Layton disappointed - another election soon? | |
Source: Werner Patels
Submitted: 31-10-06, 11:43 pm
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So we might see a no-confidence vote and another election soon - at least, that's what Layton promised/threatened to do if Harper doesn't listen to his environmental ideas. I knew the meeting was going to lead nowhere. Harper simply doesn't understand the environment (and neither does his environment minister, Rona "Clean Airhead" Ambrose). What did Jack expect? A miracle? Even when I was a kid, I remember Canada always being talked about as a role model in terms of protecting the environm
| Get Off Yer Arse Stevie | |
Source: Stageleft
Submitted: 31-10-06, 8:06 pm
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While our Beloved Leader is busy in the House defending a do nothing clean air act that my grand daughters children will have to worry about dealing with the ice in the Northwest passage is disappearing fast.
| Layton and Harper: Trouble in Paradise? | |
Source: The Prairie Wrangler
Submitted: 31-10-06, 5:43 pm
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So Jack Layton has proposed a new bill in the house of commons to get something done on the environmental file ASAP! NO! Sooner than ASAP! As soon as was possible yesterday! ASAWPY! He is, as I write, in a meeting with Stephen Harper over possibly making changes to the Conservative governments Clean Air Act towards more urgent and more substantial targets for emissions reductions... Here's the deal Harpo, don't say yes, buy agree to his proposal to bring the Clean Air Act to a parliamentary comm
| Money Talks in Global Warming "Debate" | |
Source: Keeping Down with the Jones'
Submitted: 31-10-06, 4:37 pm
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Thanks to a British government report, "The Economics of Climate Change", the dire warnings of scientists about the impacts of global warming may finally be heard. The report was issued yesterday by Sir Nicholas Stern, the Head of the British Government Economic Service and former World Bank Chief Economist. What has the big players paying attention to this report is that it speaks in terms that both government and industry can understand...the almighty dollar.
| Yes, It's That Urgent | |
Source: Wudrick Blog
Submitted: 31-10-06, 8:23 am
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Word comes today that the PM is willing to talk climate change with the NDP. Because climate change is very, very important. How important? Well, let's ask Jack Layton...
| Dialectics of Extinction | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 30-10-06, 11:56 pm
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"We came up with the idea that humans themselves act as both press and a pulse," said West. "Humans began manipulating the environment - the press - from the advent of agriculture. However, that alone did not trigger the current mass extinction. That seems to have been triggered by the pulse of industrialisation and the demands for energy and resources that came with it." New theory for mass
| Pay Now Or Pay Later | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 30-10-06, 11:55 pm
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Global warming could soon cost trillionsAccording to the Observer, the Stern report says unchecked climate change would cost up to US$6.98 trillion (A$9 trillion) - more than World Wars I and II and the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also warns that the world needs to spend about one per cent of global gross domestic product - equivalent to about US$349 billion (A$454 billion) - on the issue
| Stéphane Dion on Climate Change (Video) | |
Source: While the Earth Burns
Submitted: 28-10-06, 7:14 am
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Stéphane Dion discusses his record as Canada's Environment Minister. Excerpts from a speech in Montréal, January 12, 2006.
| Rex tells it like it is. | |
Source: Dr Roy's Thoughts
Submitted: 28-10-06, 7:09 am
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I really like Rex Murphy. He describes himself as Rex Murphy describes himself as a Newfoundlander biting at the heels of Canadian conservatism. His latest column in the Globe and mail is hillarious. It is behind a firewall, so I will show you some it.Parliament's week that wasREX MURPHYIn Parliament, it was very much ? to borrow the title of the classic British satirical news show ? that was the week that was. It was not an edifying week for the House on the Hill, but it was an eminently theatr
| Climate Day of Action | |
Source: Stageleft
Submitted: 27-10-06, 2:14 pm
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The emerging climate crisis is a threat to our health, our jobs, our lives, our world, our rights, and life as we know it. We need to unite forces amongst all Canadians, and let the federal government know that they cannot sit this one out - we must act now to prevent dangerous climate change!
| Rick's rant | |
Source: Life As I Know It
Submitted: 24-10-06, 10:03 am
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Click here to watch Rick Mercer's latest comedic rant on the Clean Air Act (which is actually only a Bill). Technorati tags: environment, politics, global warming, climate change, comedy, Canada, Rick Mercer
| Norway 1, Canada 0 on Climate Change | |
Source: Thoughts on Climate Change - a Canadian perspective
Submitted: 23-10-06, 12:55 am
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In "Canada: Reality emissions check: business wins, we don't," Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson provides an excellent summary of the sorry state of Canada's climate change foot-dragging, especially when compared to the success of other countries, even oil-producing Norway. He also makes many other good points.Thanks to climateark.org for providing access to the full text of this important column, which would otherwise require Globe and Mail registration (the registration is free, but i
| Memo to Liberals: Cram it for 12 years | |
Source: The Prairie Wrangler
Submitted: 22-10-06, 2:00 pm
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So, the Conservatives have tabled their new Clean Air Act, which was met by a particularly incoherent and inconsistent chorus of boos and jeers and moans and wails and hues ... oh, and also, cries of bloody murder from across the political spectrum. Considering the Liberals abject failure to do anything for the environment in 13 years, you think that their criticism would be muted by their own embarrasement. Well, that's not quite how it turned out...
| The environment - the means to a majority gov't? | |
Source: DevonRowcliffe.ca
Submitted: 22-10-06, 10:57 am
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Call me cynical, but the "Clean Air Act" is a mere PR stunt by the Conservative government. It was created with the intention of failing in the House. It is a calculated gamble by Harper to give him a majority. When the next election is called, this issue will be used to portray the Tories as the protectors of the environment, and the Liberals as detractors of all that is right in Gaia-land. For if the Tories came out with new environmental legislation, and the Grits blocked it, then surely the
| More Corporate Welfare | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 22-10-06, 8:00 am
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During her press conference on the Tories Hot Air Act Environment Minister Rona Ambrose tossed about the phrase CO2 sequestration It is experimental technology and it is being developed in Socialist Saskatchewan thanks to government funding. Now this is interesting the guys who are making record profits want more government handouts to create Greenhouse Gas Technology. CO2 sequestration to be exact. And that is what the Tories Hot Air act promises, an infrastructure fund.
| Time To Resign | |
Source: Le Revue Gauche
Submitted: 22-10-06, 7:59 am
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Remember this; Environmentalists call for Ambrose to resign, that was back in May. Now that she has proven she is a shill for the oil industry, with her hot air act, that makes it even more of a reason to call for her resignation. Clean Air Act wins plaudits from business A tip o' the blog to Devin Johnston for this.
| Former NDP spokesman takes environmentalists... | |
Source: Angry in the Great White North
Submitted: 21-10-06, 7:09 pm
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James Heath, a well-known spokesperson for the NDP and former communications director for the party and for Greenpeace, takes his fellow party members, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, and the rest of their lot to task for playing politics instead of giving credit where credit is due. Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have done more than the Liberals managed to do in 13 years on the environment, and yet Harper can't seem to do anything right.
| The Sierra Club Double Standard | |
Source: Wudrick Blog
Submitted: 21-10-06, 6:56 pm
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Jamey Heath, former communications director for both Greenpeace and the NDP, has an insightful article in this week's Hill Times (sorry, subscription only)...
| The Kyoto Psychosis | |
Source: Wudrick Blog
Submitted: 21-10-06, 6:55 pm
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Let me get this straight. The primary criticism of the Tories just-released Clean Air Act seems to be...that it isn't Kyoto. Or to be more specific, that we aren't going to meet Kyoto targets on the Kyoto timetable. Which was already impossible anyway, thanks to the Liberals doing nothing for years. But why let that small detail get in the way?
| Math with Coyne | |
Source: Andrew Coyne
Submitted: 21-10-06, 6:53 pm
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... their long-term targets are in the same ballpark as those proposed by the Liberal leadership candidates... -- from my Saturday column. Not true, say the Grits: we measure reductions relative to 1990, while the Tories use 2003 as a benchmark. Well, yes, but do the math: in 1990, emissions were about four-fifths of what they were in 2003.
| On developing movements | |
Source: Accidental Deliberations
Submitted: 21-10-06, 6:41 pm
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Both Ontario and Quebec are rightfully pointing out that the Cons' Unclear Air Act falls far short of even the Libs' pitiful actions against global warming by including no funding at all to enable provinces to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
| Hot Air all around | |
Source: Stephen Taylor
Submitted: 21-10-06, 3:21 pm
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Everyone seems to be hopping mad about Minister Ambrose's Clean Air Act that was released in the foyer outside the House yesterday. I've done some reading and found a 2005 CD Howe report titled "Burning Our Money to Warm the...
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