Canada takes Fossil "award" on first day of Copenhagen climate conference
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PrintCanada has been awarded a Fossil of the Day “award” on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Canada garnered today’s award for its unwavering commitment to stand firm in its inaction throughout these negotiations,” a media release states.
The summit, COP15 for short, opened today (December 7) and is scheduled to run through to December 18.
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Do you really have any idea what you are talking about or are you just repeating what the msm has told you? Do you really imagine Harper destroying the middle class, increasing poverty, destroying long fought for social programs,... is the best we can do.
Think harder!
VOTE NDP
“I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.” - Glenn Reynolds
In fact the US is just a huge inconvenience for those of us that want to holiday in Mexico. What a sick country you have ya'll!
What would Stephen Harper's mom use to slick his hair every morning then?
Seriously all you climate fear mongers get a life and your heads out of the tar sands.
If you want to live like a caveman then do so by all means, just "DO NOT" preach to us.
Take PETA and Greenpeace with you, live under her craziness Dizzy Lizzy.
@BCer and NDPer: In the order you made the errors.
1. "your" indicates possession, you meant "you're," a contraction of "you are."
2. The US is not the largest emitter of CO2 in the world, China recently passed them.
3. I think your vaction plans might be further inconvenienced if our number one customer, the US, stopped buying our exports, it works like this, lost jobs lead to higher taxes you don't get to go.
Also it might interest you that the US per capita CO2 emission for the past decade has been only a few percent more than our own. I'll wager in the future we will pass them while we continue to delude ourselves about our superiority.
Climate Warming is the new religion. What happened to separation of church and state. Go Canada.
I hope he is able (like Chretien did for Gulf War II) to keep Canada out of it.
Yes there are environmental issues facing the world, but a Global Tax won't solve anything.
If Canada is annoying these idiots we're doing something right.
The layman is beginning to use critical thinking to reveal the bull**** of the alarmist agenda, and hopefully this influences the political policies of nations worldwide to evolve beyond the rigid structures that currently exists. When today's Democrat is tomorrow's Republican; Liberal is tomorrow's Conservative or NDP advocate; it's clear that new parties need to emerge with a more multi-faceted approach.
As the amount of CO2 builds up in the atmosphere, more CO2 dissolves into the oceans and lowers the pH of the oceans more and more to make them more and more acidic threatening to kill all ocean life and us in the process. Good on you melodiousone and your friends at TransLink operating diesel buses on trolley bus routes; you're the best. Keep snubbing Copenhagen like the superstars that you are. With superstars like you, extinction of humanity is imminent.
In one of the few useful uses of an Internet petition, you can tell the President of Maldives - which will become uninhabitable within 50 years - that you do not agree with Harper: http://www.briangordon.ca/stand-with-the-maldives/
Eric Chris - please do not spout quasiscientific ruminations as though they are fact. Please show me a species that has been killed by acidic oceans. Please show me a controlled experiment or study in which it's been shown the GHG emitted by humankind is responsible for the (arguably immeasurable) "climate change". Please go and do some research and look at a temperature trend for the earth, as best science can figure for the last 1500 years. Think about things like the mini ice age, and the not so mini ice age. Think about the Trillions of tonnes of fissioning matter hanging in our sky that has a fit and a spurt now and then, messing with earth's climate.
It's a great thing for humanity to try to be responsible, but why don't we have a look-see at some of the problems that we actually know are problems. Hmm?
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One often sees claims like this in media releases, "a group of xxx organizations involved in yyy". But who are they? What Canadian NGOs were involved, and who actually made the presentation and spoke to the press?
If the Liberals had won the 2006 federal general election, as they fully expected to till the income trust affair torpedoed them, would Canada be receiving this "award"? Or are the Canadian members of this group of 400 organizations partial to the Liberal Party, so much so that they would suppress any criticism of Canadian policy and deflect attention from the tar sands?
Rod Smelser
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/05/carbon-bath
This issue is not about Climate Change, it is about world domination of YOU. It is about control of your money, how you spend it, and how you are taxed, all without representation. Some socialist idiot will be telling Canadians how much they MUST pay to third world despotic countries.
What a waste of time! History will prove me correct and the rest of you "useful idiots" wrong!
As for translink and it's diesel busses - this is a perfect example of the red herring society we live in. If you REALLY think the busses are the most relevant environmental issue to focus on, you need to do some reading. The GHG coming from these machines is so insignificant compared to say the vancouver landfill, or a single jumbo jet, or, the gigangic concrete facility on the river in Vancouver that it hardly bears notice. Sure, they could be greener, I don't disagree at all, but if you really want to be outraged, have a look see at what natural gas pipeline companies do when they need to do maintenance on a 50km section of pipeline, or have a look at the GHG emissions from a major beef rearing facility.
If you really believe in the church of climate change, you could always stop using concrete, plastic, aerosols, commercially raised foods, propane, gasoline, etc. and lead humanity from it's sinful ways. If I were you I'd probly wanna see some proof that it was a problem first though.
You people are clowns - most of the public sees you on the same level as holocaust revisionists, people who believe the moon landings never happened, biblical creationists and similar lunatics.
Honestly read some reports before we talk about the vast worldwide socialist conspiracy being responsible for falsifying very real data:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/index/
Also, "socialist" conspiracy? Are you kidding me? If there's one thing those in power and with wealth will never want, it's that.
I suspect that a lot of the climate-change denying comments come from people who live outside of Metro Vancouver. I once wrote an item about a climate-change denier in Tennessee, and the site was flooded with comments from climate-change deniers. I'm guessing that most of our readers in Metro Vancouver accept the scientific consensus that human beings are contributing to climate change through the burning fossil fuels.
Sick, I agree that we need to focus on the local sources of GHG pollution, and yes transportation is the #1 souce of GHGs in BC. But Translink is controlled by the provincial government, who holds most of the purse strings (along with the feds). Presently the provincial government is on a multi-billion $ freeway building binge, with a few hundred million from the feds, and plans to cut back on transit service as soon as the Olympics are over. For example, the third sea bus will be parked as soon as the party is over.
Pressure needs to be put on both major provincial political parties to stop building freeways, and shift the Gateway billions to electric transit. See www.gatewaysucks.org for more info and links.
But in all seriousness, I agree with Wayne the Frog From Washington. I also think it would be hilarious if Canada didn't win any Olympic metals in front of their "home crowd!" That would be comedy gold!!!
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