The Tories have been in full swing demonizing the Liberal Green Shift plan. Liberals rebutted last week with an official launch and media campaign.
Choices each party have made reveal much about their perspectives on Canada and Canadians.
The Tories, apparently, think Canadians are ignorant five-year olds on a Sunday morning. Comparing the two spots, the Conservative [...]
Here’s a Guardian article from Cory Doctorow I missed a few months back on “security” superstition and actual security. It’s bang-on and captures how disconnected authorities have become with our safety.
The superstitions that grip airport checkpoints and banks are themselves a threat to security, because the security that does not admit of examination and [...]
Friends of Science, an anti-global warming advocacy group with controversial ties to the University of Calgary, is back in the news. A new audit by the University (pdf) accuses both Friends of Science (FoS) and folksy, CanWestGlobal (National Post, Calgary Herald) columnist Barry Cooper of potentially criminal wrongdoing and fraud.
DeSmogBlog writes:
A University of Calgary [...]
The disgusting and criminally irresponsible liars at the Heartland Institute are finding their sinewy nest of lies collapsing beneath them.
A notorious list published by the institute listing 500 scientists with doubts about global warming turns out to be fake. After DeSmogBlog — a blog focused on exposing dishonest corporate-political PR on global warming — [...]
Maps like this are common and communicate an oft-heard message: global warming is the product of the global north and will punish the global south.
This mapped-graph from the WHO is particularly shocking and stark. They write:
Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually…
That estimate includes deaths as a result of extreme weather [...]
Originally posted on Beltliner.
Alex Steffen at WorldChanging points us to an excellent post by Marc Lee at the Progressive Economics Forum.
This full article was later republished in the Vancouver Sun and excellently summarizes some of the achievements and shortfalls of B.C.’s fantastic new “green budget”.
B.C.’s budget introduces a carbon tax covering 70% of B.C.’s [...]
2008 Statistics on American Politics on Facebook - Impressively thorough and well-researched.
Political prediction markets bet on Obama, Huckabee wins in Iowa - Clinton still leads in the general though… sigh.
Jamais Cascio on Geoengineering and Climate-based Warfare - Uh… happy new year?
Sydney Morning Herald has “Ten things that will change your future” - and [...]
