I’ve spent a total of 14 weeks in China this year, and although the people are REALLY green focused, the reality is they are 10x as bad as we were in the worst era of our polluting. The government there knows now is the time to build -when it’s cheap, and does little to reign in polluters… in fact, they are the biggest polluters. India has problems that would take a book to explain.
The reality is that we are cleaner than since the beginning of the industrial revolution, have more trees than ever, and have water that we can drink in every city.
So what’s the problem?
We put an end to extortion, as well as an end to a dark era where we were sucked into making our manufacturing unaffordable. We have stopped wealth creation instead of enriching the Global Warming Cartel.
“It is regrettable and flies in the face of the efforts of the international community for Canada to leave the Kyoto Protocol at a time when the Durban meeting, as everyone knows, made important progress by securing a second phase of commitment to the protocol,” said Liu Weimin, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry.
Canada stopped the transfer of our wealth dead in its tracks.. now the howling from the cartel begins.
The Canadian government is formally withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol on climate change-the first country to do so-though it said it would honor a separate, carbon-reducing agreement reached over the weekend in Durban, South Africa.
It is now clear that Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution to climate change. If anything, it is an impediment,” Mr. Kent told reporters in front of the Canadian legislature.
Mr. Kent said the pact was futile in combating climate change because it didn’t incorporate the world’s three major emitters. He also said Canada would have faced 14 billion Canadian dollars ($13.6 billion) in fines under the treaty.
The NDP wants us to pay up:
Canada’s New Democratic Party, the major political opposition, denounced the move. “This government is abdicating its international responsibilities,” said Meagan Leslie, the New Democrats’ environment point person.
You’d think that they would have plans for more free daycare with that 14 billion we’re saving.
Poor Tyler doesn’t get why the majority of people won’t buy into the electric car “fever” the environmentalists have. Ignorance has nothing to do with it. Consumers are a lot smarter than he gives them credit for.
Obama forced GM to prioritize the Volt and it’s a huge Obama success. Some months it almost sells 200 units. The car is a financial disaster, and would have folded GM if there wasn’t govt. money involved.
Had they pushed forward with the Camero at the time, the financial picture would be a lot brighter. The Camero is one of the better cars they have come out with, and gives them something to compete with against the Ford Mustang.
People aren’t as stupid as government. Something that the average Liberal cannot comprehend.
Here’s why we won’t buy electric cars right now, Tyler:
1) Cars still are a symbol of our freedom and an extension of our personality. This is why Prius owners generally are smug Liberals. Tesla has a great car I’d buy in a second, if it wasn’t 100K. The Volt is the equivalent to the K car as far as sexy is concerned. Make an electric car unique and better looking than a gas one, and you stand a chance.
2) You are selling instant obsolescence. Batteries are not there yet, and who ever buys an electric car today will be left with a worthless car in a few years. Given the risk a consumer is taking, an electric car today needs to be priced less than a comparable gas-powered car to take hold. Subsidies don’t matter, and in fact hurt the sales, as it makes us wary.
3) The cost of recharging is not that much less than gas in most high-electric fee areas – meaning payback for the initial price difference will almost never happen. I can accept a 50-100 mile range. I can’t accept that it will cost almost as much as gas, after paying a 50%+ premium for it.
Make a electric car that is sporty, fun and priced close to a standard car, and you may have some luck. The good thing is that they are capable of outperforming a gas engine.
You can’t guilt consumers into buying something. It has to make sense.
Consumers aren’t “bashing” electric cars. They aren’t buying it.
Create a good reason to own one from a marketing perspective and it may have a chance. Global warming isn’t it.
Now the government is “encouraging” its workers to study up on the global warming issue. At first glance it might makes sense.
BC seeks heightened climate change awareness among civil servants. B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake announced the series in Victoria, saying it was essential to build a “solid knowledge base” on climate change within the civil service. He cited the need for an understanding of climate change impacts for the economy, environment, for land and water use, and for agriculture.
I am waiting for them to bring in the color-coded Climate Change Threat Level alert.
Why our civil service needs to have this solid knowledge base is debatable. It could be that they make up a significant part of our population and the “cause” has fallen off the map?
Wonder who is funding this?
In March 2008, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) was established with a $94-million endowment from the BC Ministry of Environment (The Liberal party). PICS paid for the polling a steered the decision on our beloved carbon tax. Then it was off to work they go, funded in perpetuity.
Then, thanks to us paying higher prices for everything because of our carbon tax, B.C. is the first state or provincial government in North America to be “carbon neutral,” requiring public services to offset carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by buying credits from the government’s Pacific Carbon Trust. Proving that our money can buy “neutrality”.
The carbon trading/tax scam even extorts public (tax-funded) institutes.
Example: In 2010 the PCT collected $4.4 million from B.C.’s 60 school districts, to compensate for emissions that mostly come from school buildings. They tax us to pay for schools and then they tax the schools to take their money back silently, and put the money where? Wonder why the cost of schools, health and other publicly funded programs keeps rising beyond inflation?
It’s basically a Ponzi scheme.
But, great news: the B.C. government has started working on ways for public money to go to public projects. “I’m not sure where we’ll end up with it, but I think generally what we’ll see is some sort of fund within the Pacific Carbon Trust that’s dedicated to schools, to hospitals, so that money comes back to them to help reduce their carbon footprint,” he said.
It’s basically one big circle of cash.. all kept within the government to expand their ever growing largess. We can cut back on delivery of public services (i.e. teachers) by taking money back fro our tax-payer paid services, and keep the money at the top of the pyramid. Great slight of hand.
Best of all UVic has a lock on the climate scare industry, and is expanding faster than Apple. Lifetime employment for all of their researchers. Algore would be envious.
Here’s your free lesson.. paid for by us poor BC taxpayers:
Today marks the day that they burden us with even more outrageously expensive energy prices… as a Canada Day gift to BC residents.
The beloved Carbon Tax goes from the original 2.4 cents/litre of gas to 5.56 cents. It will rise to 7.24 cents per litre next July, as another Canada Day present for us.
The BC government budget forecasts $740 million in carbon tax revenues this year and $950 million next year.
Now they are saying that B.C.’s carbon tax must increase substantially if the province is going to achieve its greenhouse gas reduction targets. A January 2010 report by the Pembina Institute and others suggested a carbon tax rate of $200 per tonne by 2020, about 44.5 cents per litre of gasoline.
“There’s some evidence that it’s starting to work at a relatively low price, but the idea behind a carbon tax is you start at a slow rate and you send a clear signal it’s going to consistently and predictably rise over time,” said Horne.
We are paying around $1.35/litre right now.. which is about $5.15 a US gallon. You’d think that Washington residents spew more carbon than us… but in fact they are benefiting by the high prices in BC. As I drive 15 miles across the border every other week and buy gas for well under $4 a gallon – and fill the car with groceries – the border crossing is 1 hour+ going there and empty coming back into Canada. Taxes and high prices are keeping tourists away. Tourism is/was one of our largest industries.
If you look at Vancouver, with it’s environmentally minded leaders (or enviro-nazis) , they are winning the fight against global warming. June has been more like February and July doesn’t look to get any warmer. We are freezing here.
Great to know that Canada Day starts with what we love best.. more taxes. And, we can celebrate by enjoying the benefits of our global warming efforts.
An Azeri scientist has linked the recent incident of California’s mass fish death to the earthquake in Japan.
“Animals, they feel everything. They run away from earthquakes however they can,” Gurban Jalal Etirmishli, the general director of the Azerbijan Science Academy’s Republican Center for Seismology.
More than a million sardines washed up on California’s Redondo Beach . Scientists say they suffered from a lack of oxygen, but some reports have said they were found to have high toxin levels.
“During the first underground movements on March 8, toxic gases and even radiation could have oozed out, becoming a reason for the death of the fish,” Etirmishli said. “If, in the near future, a similar thing happens, it can be a sign of a coming earthquake.”
Etirmishli offered absolutely no proof for his theory, but noted that more than 100 whales washed up on New Zealand’s shore days ahead of its deadly earthquake.
Mexico March 11:
March 11, at the Mexican resort of Acapulco, a large number of shoals turned up near the beach, including sardines, anchovies, perches and mackerels, and so on.
Local fishermen thought that this spectacle might be caused by the giant tsunami triggered by 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan.
Now This:
EARTHQUAKE WARNING FROM RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS of the EARTH
A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region.
This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period.
Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions.
We have been scared into believing that to fly would be madness, but part of the rationale that is keeping us grounded is an economic equation rather than simple personal safety.
To fly beneath the cloud until clear of it would mean burning more fuel. But not flying at all is surely burning money more swiftly.
Low-flying to simply avoid the danger of ash being sucked into the jet engines is a temporary solution gaining currency on professional pilot’s forum Pprune. One pilot writing there yesterday pointed out: ‘The chances of it even appearing at puddle jumper altitudes is negligible’.
It isn’t just daredevil pilots who are beginning to question the necessity of the current stalemate. Steve Wood, Chief Pilot at Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance, yesterday described the measures being taken as ‘a complete overreaction’.
Modern jet aircraft engines are amazingly robust. And indeed they must be so. They have to face not only the hazards of bird strikes, but rain, hail and even salt spray on take-off from coastal airports.
All of which can potentially wreak havoc on engines. Furthermore, sand is a common hazard from dust storms and from desert airfields.
Some aircraft are better equipped than others to deal with high-dust conditions, and consultation with aircraft and engine manufacturers might have enabled more precise restrictions to be imposed, rather than a blanket ban.
But a spokesman for NATS admitted: ‘We don’t really deal with particular manufacturers.’ They were more concerned with ‘applying the international regulations’ rather than working on a specific plane-by-plane, make-by-make basis.
The blanket ban under clear blue skies and glorious sunshine is making some wonder whether this ‘one-size-fits-all’ regulation is appropriate to a situation that the regulations did not foresee.
And there will be many among the 200,000 Britons currently stranded abroad, who would be quite happy to take the risk.
In the final analysis, despite the scares, no one has actually been killed in a volcano incident – something which cannot be said for the much more hazardous drive to the airport.
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures.
This video was pointed out to me… a earth day classic.
What are you doing for Earth Day?
I thought I’d show my appreciation to our earth.
First, I’m sending my wife on 400km trip, using our SUV, to see her parents in the Okanagon. I’ll make sure she is thankful for the gasoline she burns that funds all of our great social programs.
Then, I’ll turn all my lights on at home, and keep all the TVs on, so none of our criminal element takes advantage of the dark created by those that decide they can make a difference by turning theirs off. (If you have your Christmas lights still up, it might be a good idea to leave them on, so people can see their way around.)
Then I plan to BBQ a nice steak to thank mother nature for the cows she provides us with.
If it’s nice out, it might be a good night to have a campfire – nothing like a hot dog over the fire to make you appreciate mother nature.
She sure has been good to us by providing us with all the energy and food we need… be sure to use it and say thanks.
There’s a group that is taking hold that is also celebrating:
Prominent D.C.- Area Supporters Include: Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, WMATA, Target, and George Washington University Hospital; other Nationally Recognized Institutions With Events Planned During Human Achievement Hour Include Wal-Mart, New York Times, and United States Marine Corps
The new one-hour holiday, unknown prior to this press release, has already received overwhelming support from many of Washington, D.C.’s leading institutions. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, for example, tells CEI that it does not plan to shut down all of the city’s bus and rail lines for the “Earth Hour.” The Kennedy Center, likewise, has scheduled a performance of the long-running play Sheer Madness, a jazz concert, and a dance performance to coincide with the Human Achievement Hour. Washington, D.C.’s Target store, furthermore, will remain open until 10:00pm on the evening of the 28th. The Smithsonian Institution also plans a film showing that will extend into Human Achievement Hour.
“We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible,” says Myron Ebell, CEI’s Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy.
Other organizations around the world and the nation have planned events in support of the new holiday. For example, The United State Marine Corps will continue its combat and humanitarian operations around the world during Human Achievement Hour. The New York Times confirms that it intends to put out a paper on March 29th, 2009 (preparation and printing for that issue will take place during Human Achievement Hour). At least 30,000 movies will also be screened in celebration of Human Achievement Hour. Hospital emergency and operating rooms, likewise, will remain open in Washington and in the rest of the country. Nearly all of the nation’s Wal-Mart locations will also be open during Human Achievement Hour.
Those wishing to celebrate Earth Hour, however, do not need to take part in Human Achievement Hour. “Earth Hour is a viable alternative to human achievement hour,” says CEI Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer. “Those who wish to celebrate Earth Hour should sit in the dark, turn off the heat, and breathe as little as possible.”
photo credit: MelbourneID
