Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s chief advisor, environmental radical Gerald Butts.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
(h/t Revnant Dream)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Sean
The Gore Effect
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtatweet!
Ontario Embraces Green Ruin
Related: Flurries forecast for the weekend.
YNoKyoto: Throw Another Climate Conference On The Barbie
Representatives of most of the world’s poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015.
The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about “loss and damage” – how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such as typhoon Haiyan.
Saleemul Huq, the scientist whose work on loss and damage helped put the issue of recompense on the conference agenda, said: “Discussions were going well in a spirit of co-operation, but at the end of the session on loss and damage Australia put everything agreed into brackets, so the whole debate went to waste.”
Australia was accused of not taking the negotiations seriously. “They wore T-shirts and gorged on snacks throughout the negotiation. That gives some indication of the manner they are behaving in,” said a spokeswoman for Climate Action Network.
More: Germany mutates into a climate protection obstructionist.
h/t Maz2
We Are All Comrades Now
Greenpeace jumps the Beluga;
Russians aren’t very fond of Greenpeace. The majority of people polled by the VTsIOM public opinion research centre aren’t disapproving of the arrest of the ecologists who climbed the Prirazlomnaya oil rig but suspect other motives to be behind the Prirazlomnaya action apart from environmental protection.
In the West, there seems to be no particular fondness for Greenpeace either. The Internet is full of sarcastic comments on the “adventures” of Greenpeace activists in the Arctic.
An Inconvenient Clitoridectomy
Elizabeth May joins Afghanistan delegation at climate change conference.
Tomorrow we launch the Send A Periwinkle Sheet to Elizabeth May Campaign.
Are you wearing a big blue sack over your head? Because that would be so cool. @ElizabethMay http://t.co/bY1MkZ45EE
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 20, 2013
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Iowa Jim
YNoKyoto
No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s stalled!
That’s 5 UNFCCC COP failures in a row, an unprecedented record of failure, each Conference of the Parties has disintegrated faster than the COP that preceded it, with COP19 holding the current record.
There was never any doubt, from the outset that COP19 was going to be the biggest failure since records began, what has been surprising is the speed of that collapse, COP19 was effectively dead before it had begun.
Related! Out:”carbon reduction”. In: “global view”.
(h/t Mark C)
“How, pray tell, does a Senator conduct a House committee…?”
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QOTW
“They try themselves, certain of acquittal. They claim persecution while suggesting their opponents should be silenced.” – Peter Foster
Go, Already
Parliament’s language watchdog is concerned that the Harper government’s plans to celebrate upcoming anniversaries of Confederation and military events from the two world wars may spark some “ugly” linguistic wars.
In his latest annual report to Parliament, Graham Fraser, the commissioner of official languages, said the anniversaries should serve as an opportunity for public education, while recognizing conflicting narratives in Canadian history.
“Events like the First World War stimulate different recollections, with memories of heroic sacrifice coexisting uneasily with stories of conscription, anti-French-Canadian insults and soldiers shooting on anti-conscription rioters in Quebec City,” Fraser wrote in the report, tabled on Thursday.
Cold Comfort
Two Canadian Greenpeace activists jailed more than a month in Russia will be moved to a less remote but not necessarily less harsh prison, the environmental organization said.
Paul Ruzycki, of Port Colborne, Ont., and Montrealer Alexandre Paul, along with 28 other activists, have been in custody 45 days in Murmansk, in the frigid northwestern part of the country, in what Greenpeace photos show to be spartan conditions.
For those who wish to write the Russian Embassy to urge for their continued detention, the address is here. Or, follow them on Twitter!
Who’s Laughing Now?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Greenpeace, June 2013; – Let’s laugh Harper’s tar sands ads right off the air.
Greenpeace, October 2013; The families of two Canadian Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia under “inhumane conditions” for the past six weeks said Wednesday the federal government needs to ramp up political pressure to secure their release.
“Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things.”
“The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now. – John Kerry, 2009
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t John Galt III
The Five Horses Of The Apocalypse
War, Famine, Pestilence, Death and Rall.
Shot Down
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Celebrate Naturopathic Medicine Week
