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It's amazing the sheer amount of energy that's being added every second to the global environment by the increase in GHGs. Dr. James E. Hansen According to the "New Age of Risk" PDF: That works out to the energy of 4.6 Hiroshima sized nuclear weapons being set off every second of every...

According to conservative rhetoric a coalition government that doesn't include it is somehow a big threat to the country, so what's the proof? Let's keep in mind that Harper got together with Layton and Duceppe in the fall of 2005 and formed a defacto coalition to bring the Martin government...

According to Steven Harper the other day, the ARCH-centrist Liberals constitute a threat to the nation in government. Now setting aside that opinion for a moment, what exactly is an arch-centrist? I know if you're way off on the extreme right of the political spectrum you're considered an...

There's no question we've been suffering from a lack of real democratic representation in this country for decades. Even though some of my earliest memories are of a neighbour being elected to Parliament as a Liberal when I was about five(his daughter was my first girlfriend hence my lifelong...

I get that any would-be absolute ruler has a problem with putting up with the annoyances of working within an open democratic system, but should we really put up with a PM who says he couldn't care less about our political freedoms? When Harper claims it's all about the economy he's being...

...to the man behind the curtain. How many people actually believe it was Bev Ota who made the decision to cut funding to Kairos. The clear pattern of the last five years has been of Harper concentrating all the power of government into the PMO and building firewalls to strictly control access...

... once you learn to fake it then everything becomes easy. The Conservatives have spent the last five years building the party brand and doing everything possible to create the impression they're the only game in the country. - When Harper "invited" David Emerson to join the conservatives...

If there was any doubt to who the federal conservatives really work for that was erased on tuesday as the now conservative stacked UN-ELECTED senate killed a bill passed by the elected House of Commons. The senate sat on the clmate change bill for six months then killed it in the runup to the...

Apparently you need to be a republican to be brave in America. I just finished reading Steve Ambroses' The Wild Blue about B-24 crews in WW II which focuses on George McGovern who later ran for President on the Democrat ticket. In 1972 the far right did the same thing to him they did to...

"Clean coal" is anything but. Scrubbing the emissions removes some of the sulphates but it doesn't remove the CO2 which is becoming the big issue now and coal puts a lot of other nasty stuff into the air and water around us like mercury, lead, arsenic and heavy metals. Anthracite coal is...

Climate change denial is based on magical thinking, it doesn't matter how many petitions or unreviewed papers the denial machine puts out attacking Global Warming, it still doesn't counter the science that has been building for over two centuries on the effects of pouring ever increasing amounts...

You've got to be pretty brave to do climate change research in that part of the US with the coal sector being as powerful as it is.

So let me get this straight, the fossil fuel sector spends over $100 million a year in lobbying and phony science in the US alone to confuse and sidetrack the genuine science that has been building on climate change for over a century and it's the environmentalists who are cramming a destructive...

My data? sorry I left it in my dinner jacket. Just look at the historical data accumulated over two centuries, starting with Fourier, proceeding with Tyndall then Arrhenius. Do a little research into the work of Callendar, Revelle, Plasser and Wheeling. Carl Sagan first came to prominence by...

Alleged greenhouse gases? I'm not getting into another silly debate with someone living in a fantasy world.

I get that, still no big loss in trying. A lot of the increase in food prices has to do with the increase in demand for biofuels. The whole global socio-economic model needs to be revamped, it may be that we won't be able to find a way to squeeze close to 7 billion people into the carrying...

That's the problem, as long as we keep pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the issue continues.

With Global Warming the problem isn't getting 7 billion people to follow a regimented restricted lifestyle, it's reducing the near monopoly on energy production now held by the fossil fuel sector. Eventually a much more broad-based and decentralized energy strategy means more freedom not less...

Seems to me I read somewhere that Lomborg has changed his views on Anthropogenic climate change. The contrarians case is built on a house of cards just as Big Tobaccos was, bump it with any real force and it will fold... well, like a house of cards.

Re: 2010, another year of extreme coral bleaching Nothing is 100% certain so why should Global Warming and climate change be held up to such a high standard? Some facts people might want to do a little bit of research on before claiming there's no factual base to Anthropogenic forcing and...