As fear rises in British Columbia this week along with the province’s record floodwaters, the likelihood B.C. voters will connect the dots between man-made climate change and “natural” catastrophes is rising too. Politically speaking, this is not exactly good news for the determined advocates in Alberta and Ottawa of aggressive
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper’s New Enviro Plan: Show Me The Money
…or, more precisely, the cuts in Carbon Emissions. Simon Donner of UBC has it right: @tyler_bryant @StephenLeahy Right. Climate value of “trading” pipeline for GHG reduction elsewhere will depend on the numbers— Simon Donner (@simondonner) September 6, 2013 …which is to say that a deal is doable, if whatever Keystone
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The State Of Surface Temperatures
From Simon Donner, about as clear an explanation I’ve heard re the “pause” in AGW (which isn’t really a “pause” in any case): Over the past 10-15 years, the global mean surface air temperature did not increase at the rate of the previous decades. The cause of the slowdown is primarily
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