Category Archives: Climate Change

Aldyen Donnelly: British Columbia gets GHG regulation all wrong

It appears that British Columbia is also blowing it with the GHG reporting rule that the province announced recently. But the BC and Ontario rules, as proposed, are quite different and blow it in quite different ways. As a starting point, the fact that the two leading provincial members of the Western Climate Initiative clearly cannot agree on a common GHG reporting standard is a pretty bad sign.
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Various Veins: Thinking about monarchy

(Dec. 2, 2009), There is nothing like a royal visit to get Canadians excited. Continue reading →

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Various Veins: Thinking about monarchy

There is nothing like a royal visit to get Canadians excited. The full colour photo of Tillsonburg chefs Jonathon and Cynthia Collins talking with Prince Charles on Page 1 of last Wednesday’s Tillsonburg Independent News gave us a sense of pride, didn’t it?

Canadians have very different ideas about the monarchy. Those who think monarchy is archaic perhaps outnumber those who consider themselves to be loyal subjects of the Queen.
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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate’s aftermath: Australia ditches cap and trade

(December 1, 2009) Emboldened following the Climategate scandale, the Liberal opposition in Australia’s parliament threw out its pro-Kyoto leader yesterday and then today, under the leadership of global warming skeptic Tony Abbott, voted down the government’s plan to pass cap and trade legislature. Continue reading →

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A skeptical public

(Dec. 1, 2009) To kick off tonight’s Munk debate on climate change, the CBC invited Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon and Dale Marshall, a climate change policy analyst for the David Suzuki Foundation, to answer questions from the public on the climate change debate. Continue reading →

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A skeptical public

(December 1, 2009) To kick off tonight’s Munk debate on climate change, the CBC invited Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon and Dale Marshall, a climate change policy analyst for the David Suzuki Foundation, to answer questions from the public on the climate change debate. Continue reading →

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Google’s climate ‘scholars’

(Nov. 27, 2009) Methods used to tabulate the number of experts who are skeptical of climate change leave something to be desired. Continue reading →

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Hacked e-mails heat up climate-change debate

(Nov. 27, 2009) Christmas came early this year for Diane Katz and other Canadians at the forefront of the most polarized political fight on the planet. Continue reading →

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Hacked e-mails heat up climate-change debate

(November 27, 2009) Christmas came early this year for Diane Katz and other Canadians at the forefront of the most polarized political fight on the planet. Continue reading →

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Google’s climate ‘scholars’

(November 27, 2009) Methods used to tabulate the number of experts who are skeptical of climate change leave something to be desired. Continue reading →

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