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Post by marchesarosa on May 20, 2011 1:09:11 GMT 1
New Canadian conservative government kills carbon tax! Conservatives have kiboshed a carbon tax, Environment Minister Peter Kent confirmed Thursday. “It’s off the table,” he told reporters Thursday after accepting an award from World Wildlife Fund International on behalf of Parks Canada. “There’s no expectation of cap-and-trade continentally in the near or medium future.” …and then this: UK Government delays pulling plug on old-fashioned light bulbs (Hurrah!) Tories propose pushing deadline to 2014 over lack of alternatives to incandescents The Conservative government wants to postpone pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs, saying it needs more time to allow for technological innovations and to deal with concerns about compact fluorescent lamps. bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/5/19/back-from-the-brink.html(Now there's a crowd pleaser which costs the taxpayer nothing!)
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Post by marchesarosa on May 20, 2011 8:36:24 GMT 1
IPCC’s species extinction hype “fundamentally flawed”www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/3035-ipcc-debunked-species-loss-far-less-severe-than-feared.htmlWhenever I hear these stories of extinctions I always ask myself , how do they KNOW? The assumption is that these species "auditors" know every single thing about every square inch of the territory they are studying. It's madness. Take everything that comes out of WWF, Greenpeace et al with a BIG pinch of salt. They are playing the gullible like a fish on the end of a line. These stories about species extinction come from exactly the same ideological space as the stories about catastrophic sea-level rise, catastrophic ice-melt, catastrophic extreme weather increase et etc etc. They are designed to appeal to numpties and should be confined to the Fortean Times. Sadly these uncorroborated claims are lapped up by Journals which used to claim some scientific repute. The demands of the massively growing human population for food and other resources has put pressure on the habitats of the planet's other life forms - I believe far too much pressure - you know my views on the desireability of human population stabilisation. But let's put the blame for species extinction in the right place, on the ever-increasing demands of humans, not on the weather!
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