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Numbers racket
(November 6, 2009) Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, The Deniers
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The Gallant Saint Roch
Kudos to Wayne Richards of Vancouver, for his engaging letter to CCNet, a climate change newsletter indispensable for anyone following the climate change debate.
The letter, reproduced below, was addressed to social anthropologist Benny Peiser, CCNet’s editor.
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Aldyen Donnelly: What about our dear oilsands?
Oilsands operations have very different GHG profiles. The over-simple analysis that Berkeley’s Energy Group has done, to date, does not tell the whole story. The analysis suggests (more or less accurately) that if we use oilsands feedstocks to make gasoline, the full fuel cycle GHGs are high relative to conventional sweet crude.
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Presentation to The Standing Committee on General Government
(Nov. 2, 2009) Presentation to The Standing Committee on General Government
Re: Bill 185, Environmental Protection Amendment Act
(Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 Continue reading
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Canadian concern over climate change plummeting
According to a new Climate Confidence Monitor survey released today, support for action on climate change is plummeting in Canada. Just 26% of Canadians consider global warming among their chief concerns, down from 34% in 2008.
Concern in the U.S. is even lower – just 18% , down from 26% in 2008. The UK’s level of concern is the lowest of all, a mere 15%, down from 26% in 2008.
Worldwide, the drop in concern over climate change has also dropped by 8 percentage points, from 42% to 34%.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Canada short-changed in the US cap and trade bills
In summary, US cap and trade will oblige US producers AND IMPORTERS of petroleum products, liquids from coal, natural gas and biofuels to surrender US GHG allowances covering the US GHGs arising from the US end-use of those products. Then, there is a free allocation of US GHG allowances to US refineries and US natural gas distributors. The gas LDCs are obliged to sell their free allowances to raise cash to mitigate the impact of cap and trade on residential and commercial customer prices.
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Enjoy the warmth while it lasts
(October 31, 2009) Thank your lucky stars to be alive on Earth at this time. Our planet is usually in a deep freeze. The last million years have cycled through Ice Ages that last about 100,000 years each, with warmer slivers of about 10,000 years in between. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: More on the ‘intensity versus absolute’ emissions debate
In a recent article, Dow Chemical spokesman Jonathan Moser said intensity targets are incompatible with a national cap-and-trade plan, particularly given the desire to make it compatible with a proposed regulatory system in the United States.
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Talks with Hydro-Quebec about NB Power at 'critical' stage, N.B. gov't says
FREDERICTON — Negotiations that could see key assets of New Brunswick’s public utility company sold to Hydro-Quebec are at a crucial stage, the government of Premier Shawn Graham said Monday as two other Atlantic premiers expressed concerns about a possible deal.
The New Brunswick government has been under pressure in recent days to reveal details of their discussions with Quebec amid fears that the province could give up control of NB Power, a Crown corporation.
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Lower than average hurricane activity in the Atlantic
The U.S. Atlantic coast is currently experiencing a record low in hurricane activity, according to meteorologist Joe Joyce. Joyce says that while the hurricane season on the Atlantic coast started early with arrival of Tropical Depression One on May 28, it quickly went dormant for the next two months.
And on August 12, when Tropical Storm Ana developed in the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands, it marked the latest date since 1992 when the season’s first tropical cyclone was names in the Atlantic basin.
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