This week’s Blowout features global CO2 emissions, which after plateauing for the last three years have begun to rise again. We follow with our usual eclectic mix – the escalating Saudi-Iran conflict; Venezuela defaults; Norge Bank to divest oil holdings; Europe wary of Russian gas; France’s nuclear outages continue; South Korea stops nuclear plant construction; Germany’s coal phaseout problem; the US-Poland coal deal; cheap solar in Mexico; renewables take off in Africa; Ontario’s duck curve problem……
Blowout 203
Earlier in the week: will the UK abandon Marxism in favour of a return to a market economy?
Implementing the Helm Review on the Cost of UK Energy
Oceania abandoning IngSoc? I will believe it when I see it. ‘1984’ was written by a Brit, and it did not appear out of a vacuum.
@Kevin-yes, but the “Brit” was drawing on his experiences with communists in the Spanish civil war (as well as the BBC, of course – room 101 being where he worked on propaganda broadcasts during WW2).
I would argue that the problem in Britain is the same as in most of the West-a comfortable, left-leaning upper middle class who “mean well” and don’t associate with anyone suffering the consequences of their bien-pensant ideology; a cult of youth and a belief that traditional morality was a con-job perpetrated on those who now are free.
From reading this blog, I get the impression that Canada is actually in a worse state.
My visits to Vancouver over the last decade also make me feel that way.
“…will the UK abandon Marxism in favour of a return to a market economy?” No! Only a collapse of the planned economy will bring about a return to a market economy. Russia’s planned economy collapsed and a market economy was reborn although they still have a dictatorship. China and Vietnam have moved toward a market economy although they are still political dictatorships.
Brits may want to wait until they are in the same shape as Cuba and Venezuela.
Clovis Sangrail, true. The only reason we have not totally collapsed is our proximity to the US and we have not pi**ed them off enough yet; although we are working on doing just that. Actually it might not be a bad idea as maybe Canadians would wake up to the disaster that a Liberal/NDP/ProgCon world is.
Pay for performance always ends up being a scam. If you are clever enough, you set the goals so they sound difficult, but you’ve already achieved 90% or more of those goals. If you’re really clever, it’s in the bag and you don’t have to do anything.
CO2 is about 400PPM or 0.04% of the atmosphere. During the jurassiac period, excuse spelling, CO2 was about 7000 + PPM. We have a long way to go and the planet will thrive as CO2 rises.