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Category Archives: Climate Change
Aldyen Donnelly: Evidence shows both HST and carbon taxes are regressive
British Columbians instinctively know what the Brits and other Europeans started to discover between 1999 and 2004. That is that value-added and carbon taxes are highly regressive and no government can cost-effectively administer the follow-up programmes whose stated objectives are to mitigate the highly regressive nature of the original income-to-tax shift.
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A few Rubber Duckies of my own
(June 27, 2010) Over at the National Post, last week was “Junk Science Week,” during which Post writers like Peter Foster and Lawrence Solomon identify and denounce widely publicized “science” that is, in reality, shoddy nonsense. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: BC’s plans for cap and trade
Last week I had some rather enlightening conversations with a few very senior BC government officials. We talked about BC’s evolving GHG offset system (I raised concerns about offset protocols that doubt and triple count reductions) and the developing BC cap and trade regime.
Two disturbing comments were repeated by most of the senior officials I talked to—even though the conversations were independent of each other and I did not prompt the comments:
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Lawrence Solomon: Australia may wait forever on climate change
(June 24, 2010) In her first speech as Austrialia`s new prime minister, Julia Gillard assured her nation that she will not be rushing in any climate change policies, and certainly not carbon taxes, because there is no consensus on the need for carbon taxes. Continue reading
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Transcript of press conference by Julia Gillard, Australia's new Prime Minister
Transcript of press conference by Julia Gillard, Australia’s new Prime Minister
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Lawrence Solomon: Google Scholar at the Academy
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has utilized a non-expert to write an analysis entitled “Expert credibility in climate change.” This analysis judges the climate science credentials of scientists who have taken a position in the climate change debate, and disqualifies those who are not expert enough in climate science for its choosing.
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Aldyen Donnelly: HST and carbon taxes: job creators or destroyers? Depends on who you ask
Charles Lammam and Niels Veldhuis would have us believe that net tax cuts are in the future for most BC households. But Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s 2010 Budget Fiscal Plan suggests otherwise. Who should we believe?
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Global warming strategist scores New York Times coup
(Jun. 21, 2010) Stanford University’s Jon A Krosnick, a communications guru and advisor to the global warming camp, scored a coup in a New York Times oped last week that discredits polls by firms such as Gallup and Pew Research Center. Continue reading
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Global warming strategist scores New York Times coup
(June 21, 2010) Stanford University’s Jon A Krosnick, a communications guru and advisor to the global warming camp, scored a coup in a New York Times oped last week that discredits polls by firms such as Gallup and Pew Research Center. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: Nightfall on the solar industry
(June 18, 2010) Solar may be a renewable technology but government subsidies to it aren`t, Europe`s solar industry is learning. Continue reading
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