Why Are Carbon Tax Proponents Ignoring This Story

petros

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CO2 causes fires? Is that why fire extinguishers use CO2?

Go hose yourself down. You stink of sh-t, stale beer and defeat.
 

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This technology will make CO2 emissions a non issue but the carbon tax lovers are ignoring the story. Could it be that their issue isn't about limiting CO2 emissions and more about wealth transfer. It certainly appears that way.

A tax on extracted carbon would encourage the further expansion of this technology to produce it, no? After all, if you pay a tax on its extraction but not on its production, then does that not discourage extraction and encourage production?
 

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A tax on extracted carbon would encourage the further expansion of this technology to produce it, no? After all, if you pay a tax on its extraction but not on its production, then does that not discourage extraction and encourage production?

Clearly you misunderstand what this technology means
 

mentalfloss

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CO2 causes fires? Is that why fire extinguishers use CO2?

Go hose yourself down. You stink of sh-t, stale beer and defeat.

CO2 accelerates warming (climate change) which causes more fires.

Why else do you think Fart McMurray was as bad as it was?

A tax on extracted carbon would encourage the further expansion of this technology to produce it, no? After all, if you pay a tax on its extraction but not on its production, then does that not discourage extraction and encourage production?

That's what I said on the first page but he's too invested in jumping off a cliff with petros now.
 

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Why else do you think Fart McMurray was as bad as it was?

Not sure about Fart McMurray but Fort McMurray may have something to do with building a city in the middle of a forest with insufficient fire breaks. I wonder if those idiotic city planners were educated at home or in a school.
 

petros

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Not sure about Fart McMurray but Fort McMurray may have something to do with building a city in the middle of a forest with insufficient fire breaks. I wonder if those idiotic city planners were educated at home or in a school.

Environmental Science program at home through Athabasca University.
 

mentalfloss

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And why do you think this year's El Nino was also the worst one we ever had?

It's the same reason the fire in Fart McMurray carried longer than expected.

It's climate change, caused primarily by humans.
 

lone wolf

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Because alarmists said it was. Was it as intense as the ones that melted the glaciers ... or the ones that let tropical vegetation grow in the Arctic?

Cycles.... They affect everything
 

mentalfloss

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I'm sorry you don't understand that people refer to the surrounding area in addition to the actual city.

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petros

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And why do you think this year's El Nino was also the worst one we ever had?

It's the same reason the fire in Fart McMurray carried longer than expected.

It's climate change, caused primarily by humans.

Is it. la Nino are stable? That is why la Nina is causing the 6th wettest October in BC?
 

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I'm sorry you don't understand that people refer to the surrounding area in addition to the actual city.

It's ok, I understand your confusion. The actual "forest" fire got lots of attention but considering the remoteness and the fact it just made it into the top ten area wise, I can see why you thought it was such a big deal
 

mentalfloss

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Yes, who needs facts anyway.

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Climate change found to double impact of forest fires - The Globe and Mail

Over the past 30 years, human-caused climate change has nearly doubled the amount of forest area lost to wildfires in the western United States, a new study has found.

The result puts hard numbers to a growing hazard that experts say both Canada and the U.S. must prepare for as western forests across North America grow warmer and drier and increasingly spawn wildfires that cannot be contained.
 

Cannuck

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Yes, who needs facts anyway.

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Climate change found to double impact of forest fires - The Globe and Mail

Over the past 30 years, human-caused climate change has nearly doubled the amount of forest area lost to wildfires in the western United States, a new study has found.

The result puts hard numbers to a growing hazard that experts say both Canada and the U.S. must prepare for as western forests across North America grow warmer and drier and increasingly spawn wildfires that cannot be contained.

Nice dodge