Has Michael Phelps been sharing?: Over Seventy of Canada’s Top Athletes Call for Carbon Neutral 2010 Olympics

February 5, 2009 Vancouver—More than 70 of Canada’s top Olympic and national team athletes are calling on the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to make the 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral.

Taking a stick to Mann | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If Mann sees criticism as “vindication”, isn’t he also likely to see disproof as proof, cold as warm, fiction as fact?

globeandmail.com: How climate-change money went down the policy drain

During the 2006 campaign, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper stood in front of a bus in Vancouver for one of those photo-ops that television networks find irresistible.

There, he announced a policy to combat climate change: a tax credit for those with public transit passes. More people riding public transit would mean fewer people using cars, which, in turn, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he declared.

It was a farcical policy, not to put too fine a point on the matter. It was estimated that about 95 to 97 per cent of those receiving the new subsidy were riding public transit anyway. There would be no major shift from cars to buses. The money would, quite literally, go down the policy drain, which is of course exactly what happened. As a climate-change policy, it was among the least effective policies imaginable.