Strategic voting is tough for party loyalists. Using your party to help defeat another, rather than use any gains in perception, strength, breadth and membership to continue building your own party - well that's a hard road to travel for many. But it might be the right road to travel for those in a position to really make a difference. (1466 words) More …
This resignation brings an interesting dynamic to the Saanich-Gulf Islands race where the incumbent, Conservative MP and Natural Resources minister Gary Lunn, faces off against Liberal candidate Briony Penn, well known to the area as an environmental activist and former Green Party supporter. The NDP vacuum might allow a real race against Lunn, an outcome I would welcome, although it does seem likely that vote splitting between the Green and Liberal candidate is likely to ensure an anti-environment Lunn is re-elected. (833 words) More …
We shall increasingly hear that nuclear power is the only way to meet green house gas reduction obligations while at the same time power our energy-hungry lives. (1258 words) More …
Imagine a world where the most productive farmland (total output) in the world – North America – is a barren wasteland – and you’ll be imagining what this U.S. government report imagines will happen if we do not bring greenhouse gas emissions under control and effect reductions. (68 words) More …
There is nothing intrinsically “conservative” about raping the planet and damaging irreplaceable ecosystems and food sources, and polls among those who identify themselves as “conservative” bear this out: (1414 words) More …
The advertisement also promotes a fallacy – that Canada must import its fuel, and that bio-fuels would allow Canada to “grow its own” fuels and end the so-called foreign fuel reliance. Nothing could be further from the truth. (671 words) More …
1c Increase: Ice-free sea absorbs ?more heat and accelerates global warming; fresh water lost from a third of the world’s surface; low-lying coastlines flooded. Chance of avoiding one degree of global warming: zero. (356 words) More …
On Mike Duffy live this afternoon a ridiculous performance by Madhav Khandekar, a former meteorologist and member of the FOS scientific advisory board. He as much as said that climate change is bogus, and even if it were real, we should look forward to it. Nice performance Madhav, perhaps you could audition for a job as the press secretary for David Emerson or Wajid Khan? (255 words) More …
I think that we’ve got to drink the water that comes out of our taps, and if we don’t trust it, we ought to be raising hell about that.” (199 words) More …
There are actually some Conservatives who place environmental issues at the top of their policy lists. Sadly the current Minister of Environment isn’t one of them. (70 words) More …
But first, the breaking news item of the day: Garth Turner is to hold a press conference this morning, promising to reveal disturbing details
about a certain political party and its leadership. A lot of people won’t be happy with me
, Turner said, adding “The die is now cast.” Knowing some of the inside workings of the party and Harper’s rise to power, I can well imagine… (443 words) More …
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2006–10-20 (CBC News) ‘No debate’ that fish farms kill wild salmon, says B.C. scientist (292 words) More …
They’re not going to do anything: This is a (law) for inaction. To suggest that you have to consult once more… is ludicrous.John Bennett, Sierra Club of Canada (642 words) More …
For a clue as to how things might turn out, one need only remember that Ambrose once worked for Ralph Klein helping shape policy with respect to the oil and gas sector in Alberta. We all know how “green” that sector is in Alberta. (821 words) More …
Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to translate human demand on the environment into the area re- quired for the production of food and other goods, together with the absorption of wastes. Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere’s regenerative capacity since the 1980s. According to this preliminary and exploratory assessment, humanity’s load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and
grew to 120% in 1999. (240 words) More …
“The debate about whether there is a global warming signal now is over, at least for rational people,” said Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. “The models got it right. If a politician stands up and says the uncertainty is too great to believe these models, that is no longer tenable.” (673 words) More …
The ruling comes on the same day that “Super Size Me,” a documentary about a man’s month-long diet of McDonald’s fast food, was nominated for an Oscar. (232 words) More …
“There was a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight, and that really amazed me” said Dr. Gerry Stanhill, an English scientist working in Israel. Intrigued, he searched records from all around the world, and found the same story almost everywhere he looked. It was only recently, when his conclusions were confirmed by Australian scientists using a completely different method to estimate solar radiation, that climate scientists at last woke up to the reality of global dimming. (258 words) More …
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