As we all know, money does not grow on trees. Apparently though, it does spew out of trees that are hugged.
The potential penalty, 36 billion euros ($46 billion) for the group based on current permit prices, and the fact that only a minority of 37 Kyoto signatory nations may meet their pledges bodes poorly for international efforts to limit global warming.
Many have seen the Liberal TV Ad portraying Dion slamming down the gavel and declaring... "decided!", that supposedly shows he is a leader. How many actually know what the add is talking about? What was decided? Lorrie Goldstein explains
In the end, the diplomats managed to eke out an agreement for a two-year round of non-binding talks under the UNFCCC that 'will not open any negotiations leading to new commitments' (as the official wording says) but could set the stage for future talks.
"It is difficult to accept criticism from someone who preaches about climate change, but who never submitted the Kyoto Protocol to a vote in the United States Senate, who never did as much as Canada is now doing to fight climate change during eight years in office, and who has campaigned exclusively for hundreds of Democratic candidates who have weaker plans to fight greenhouse gases than Canada's New Government."
"We're going much farther than Al Gore went. He was the second most powerful man in the world and greenhouse gas emissions went up when he was vice-president."
"You know, it's easy when you've had the big job and then you're on the side lines -- it's easy to complain," Baird added. "My responsibility, our government's responsibility, is to act. If we came forward with our environmental plan in the United States, they'd call it revolutionary because it's so tough."
Aware that CFLs contain potentially hazardous substances, Bridges called her local Home Depot for advice. The store told her that the CFL contained mercury and that she should call the Poison Control hotline, which in turn directed her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, she suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s temperature.
If anyone should know what constitutes "fraud", Al Gore should. His whole life revolves around it. It truly is an "Inconvenient Truth" regarding Al's life style. He travels around the world screaming how we heathens are destroying the planet, while his very own actions do more harm to the environment in one day than the average person does in a year. He claims to do it to save the planet. The planet does not need to be saved. He is doing it to make megatonnes of money. Thanks to the many sheep out there that will believe everything he says, he is succeeding at doing just that.
“In my opinion, it is a complete and total fraud,” Mr. Gore said. “It is designed to mislead the Canadian people.”
Mr. Gore acknowledged he is not a Canadian citizen and said he has “no right to interfere in your decisions.”
However, he said, the rest of the world looks to Canada for moral leadership, and that's why this week's announcement was so “shocking.”
Cardinal Suzuki of the Church of Climatology has spoken
"It's not enough, John,"
Respected(?) environmentalist David Suzuki came out swinging Friday, calling the plan an embarrassment that was more of a sham than a strategy. Suzuki said the government must meet the terms of the Kyoto accord on time -- regardless of expense. (emphasis mine)
