Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Krugman Unintended Irony: Anyone Who Does Not Unquestioningly Believe Authorities is Anti-Science
When, by the way, did the children of the sixties not only lose, but reverse their anti-authoritarian streak?
We Had Flood Before Anthropogenic CO2? | Climate Skeptic
1910 Paris flood pictures.

I absolutely guarantee if this happened today it would be blamed on fossil fuel combustion.
Rossland News - Changes coming to B.C. carbon offsets
The requirement covers not only provincial ministries but school districts and health authorities, and Lake acknowledges that has been controversial because beneficiaries include private resource companies.
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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. School bus emissions are exempt, but other vehicle emissions must be reported and offset.

The PCT has funded projects to reduce emissions of some of B.C.'s biggest industrial carbon dioxide sources, which are so far exempt from B.C.'s carbon tax. They include Encana Corporation's natural gas operations in northeastern B.C., the Lafarge cement plant in Richmond, and forest companies Canfor and TimberWest.

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