June 4, 2012
Five reasons to ask your Member of Parliament to vote No on Bill C-38:
1. It severely weakens the Canadian Environmental Assessment.
2. By amending the Species at Risk Act and the Navigable Waters Protection Act, it removes the protection of endangered species and their habitat from the pipeline approval process.
3. It guts the Fisheries Act by removing provisions for habitat protection.
4. It repeals the Kyoto Protocol Implementation.
5. It eliminates the National Round Table on Environment and Economy.
If you`re concerned about what our current government is doing to the environment, please call and ask your MP to vote No on Bill C-38. Here`s how you can reach his or her office: http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
Best regards,
Peter Adamski
February 3, 2012
Senator Bert Brown, the distortionist
Self-admitting global warming denier Senator Bert Brown feels vindicated after hearing, at a parliamentary committee studying energy polices, “from four well known academics” who don’t believe humans are responsible for warming the planet (“Climate skeptics gathering influence in Tory Senate seats,” The Journal, January 22).
Let’s put things in perspective here.
The most definitive reports on global warming are those developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC reports involve hundreds of scientists, years of writing, and rounds of reviews that involve thousands of comments on every chapter.1
Surely Senator Brown is aware of the IPCC reports. And if he is aware of them and thinks that the assertions of four “well known” yet unnamed academics balance these reports off, then he’s not studying the global warming issue. He’s distorting it.
1. Stephen Schneider http://www.skepticalscience.com/science-and-distortion-stephen-schneider.html#.TwC5PcDGEwA.twitter from about 3:30 – 4:30
Let’s put things in perspective here.
The most definitive reports on global warming are those developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC reports involve hundreds of scientists, years of writing, and rounds of reviews that involve thousands of comments on every chapter.1
Surely Senator Brown is aware of the IPCC reports. And if he is aware of them and thinks that the assertions of four “well known” yet unnamed academics balance these reports off, then he’s not studying the global warming issue. He’s distorting it.
1. Stephen Schneider http://www.skepticalscience.com/science-and-distortion-stephen-schneider.html#.TwC5PcDGEwA.twitter from about 3:30 – 4:30
January 22, 2012
Some leaks
Regarding a 1,500-barrel spill in the N.W.T.last year, "Enbridge originally said when the spill was discovered that only four barrels of [oil] leaked from the pipeline" ("Keystone denial threatens Gateway: Enbridge," The Edmonton Journal, January 20). Later the company said the spill "involved anywhere from 700 to 1,500 barrels." Now they say it's at the "uper limit of 1,500 barrels."
Says Enbridge spokeswoman Jennifer Varey, "some leaks aren't so easy to detect."
Nor is the severity.
Says Enbridge spokeswoman Jennifer Varey, "some leaks aren't so easy to detect."
Nor is the severity.
January 6, 2012
No climate victory in Durban
The editorial board of The Edmonton Journal likens the Harper government’s climate position to a game of Texas hold ‘em (see “A climate victory we may regret,” The Edmonton Journal, Dec. 28). From a risk point of view, I liken our government’s position to a game of chicken, wherein two drivers bear down on each other from opposite directions, each daring the other to swerve away. If neither swerves, the result is a collision, potentially deadly.
I wouldn’t be concerned if it was just the life of his government that Harper was risking. But that’s not the case here. What’s at stake are the lives of future generations all over the world. All because Harper refuses to believe that global warming is caused by humans.
The evidence says otherwise.
In its latest report the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a government body initiated by the President and mandated by the Legislature, lists 10 key findings, the first of which states that “Global Warming is unequivocal and primarily human induced.”
The finding supports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in its 2007 report stated that most of the observed increase in global temperatures since the mid 20th century “is very likely” the result of human activities.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences supports these findings, as does NASA, the American Geological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association of Advancement of Science. The list goes on.
And yet it’s still not enough to prompt our government into action.
If the fossil fuel industry needs a subsidy, support for a pipeline or help with a burdensome regulation, Harper’s there with the money, the pompoms or a regulatory workforce reduction. Whatever's required.
But when it comes to action on climate change—the greatest issue facing the world—Harper’s an obstructionist and has been since he first darkened our political landscape. But he’ll get his comeuppance. Someday when we all come to recognize the criminality of his position justice will prevail.
I wouldn’t be concerned if it was just the life of his government that Harper was risking. But that’s not the case here. What’s at stake are the lives of future generations all over the world. All because Harper refuses to believe that global warming is caused by humans.
The evidence says otherwise.
In its latest report the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a government body initiated by the President and mandated by the Legislature, lists 10 key findings, the first of which states that “Global Warming is unequivocal and primarily human induced.”
The finding supports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in its 2007 report stated that most of the observed increase in global temperatures since the mid 20th century “is very likely” the result of human activities.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences supports these findings, as does NASA, the American Geological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association of Advancement of Science. The list goes on.
And yet it’s still not enough to prompt our government into action.
If the fossil fuel industry needs a subsidy, support for a pipeline or help with a burdensome regulation, Harper’s there with the money, the pompoms or a regulatory workforce reduction. Whatever's required.
But when it comes to action on climate change—the greatest issue facing the world—Harper’s an obstructionist and has been since he first darkened our political landscape. But he’ll get his comeuppance. Someday when we all come to recognize the criminality of his position justice will prevail.
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